It is so beautifully ironic that St. Francis - the great lover of animals - is now a pigeon's target in countless yards.

Speaking truth will rarely earn you friends, but it will reveal who your true friends are and who are true friends of Christ.

To love someone properly probably means that you won’t be very popular. Pure love, loving the way it was intended, is unfortunately a foreign concept to many. Love is messy. Love will involve hardship, demand patience, require forgiveness, test maturity, strain friendship, challenge priorities, refine character, ignite the heart and unleash the soul. Love is not something you sing about, it’s the reason you sing. Love is not something you write about, it’s the reason you write. Love is not something you live to find, it’s the reason that you are alive.

Everything we have - every blessing, every talent - is a gift from our Father. The only thing that's all ours is our sin.

Much of Satan's time is spent trying to make you remember what God has already forgotten. Reconcile, rejoice, and look forward.

We can't experience all that Heaven has to offer until we renounce all that the world offers in its place.

Authentic Christianity is a roller-coaster ride, not a merry-go-round.