Shannon L. Alder

"People that don’t move will never notice the chains they carry."

"Love will drive you insane, but never let it drive you stupid or blind."

"An infinity with God has always been a circle, not a straight line past all your mistakes."

"You can change the place you live, your clothes, your interests, your friends, your religion and even your partner. However, if you forgot to change your mind, attitude, beliefs about the world, how you treat people and how you plan to be different this time around, why did you even bother?"

"We are all children coming inside from recess with varying degrees of dirt on us."

"A paradox is a storm that rains on itself."

"I rather be a stupid person wanting clarification and answers, in order to be wiser, than be a stupid person that blindly believes the lies they are told, without question."

"You won't change anything significant in the world if you try to be like it. Change comes when you do something different."

"If you spend your life over analysing every encounter you will always see the tree, but never the forest."

"Your ability to see will never broaden when you only see yourself."

"When you meet a dark angel don't you ever for one minute believe they are bad because they have faced the worst demons and lived to guide you through yours. It really isn't an easy job they have been asked to do, but then neither was standing on the front line during the war in heaven."

"You don’t need to wait for God to show up, in order to be rescued from your bad situation. God has been trying to get your attention for a really long time."

"Gratitude can't grow love higher than regret."

"Relationships with negative people are simply tedious encounters with porcupines. You don’t have the remote knowledge how to be close to them without quills being shot in your direction."

"Peace can only be achieved by a contrite spirit, open communication and tolerance."

"Happiness is always on the other side of being teachable."

"There are so many things we expect God to do: lead us, bring good people into our life, give us a life of abundance, make us happy, fix our problems, fix other people, triumph over our enemies, etc. However, why do so many people think they will get any of this if they choose not to live righteously? If you choose to hurt other people and not take any responsibility for it or live your life as if everyone else is the problem, except you then God is going to lead you back to the same people, same places, same situations so you can fix the same problem you ran from. God is not standing in your future telling you to forget what you did. He is standing in front of you telling you to go back and undo what you did! He leads you to places that change who you are. He doesn't lead you to places to forget who you are."

"The walls you put between yourself and other people doesn't just keep them away, it also keeps God away."

"Humility is not a one time lesson that comes when you have lost everything. It is a daily reminder of how far we have come, yet still short of who we can be through HIS guidance. Blessed is the soul that can recognize that he isn’t moving mountains, but God is for him."

"Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third."