Where most men work for degrees after their names, we work for one before our names: Saint.

Those who tell the Truth love you. Those who tell you what you want to hear love themselves.

We are commanded to love God with all our strength, heart, mind and soul and our neighbor in the same way God loves us - it is the same love flowing between God and the soul - the soul and its neighbor. It is difficult, but the burden of the cross is light compared to the cross of uncontrolled emotions, anger, insistence on one's own opinion, the frustration of trying to change others rather than being changed oneself, resentment, regrets and guilt. Accepting the present moment like Jesus did is certainly a lighter burden.

Where most men work for degrees after their names, we work for one before our names: 'St.' It's a much more difficult degree to attain. It takes a lifetime, and you don't get your diploma until you're dead.

God wants you to be in the world, but so different from the world that you will change it. Get cracking.

God does awesome things with us.

God is not a slot machine. We don't go to God to get something; we go to give something.