The Christian religion asks us to put our trust not in ideas, and certainly not in ideologies, but in a God Who was vulnerable enough to become human and die, and Who desires to be present to us in our ordinary circumstances.
I was taught that I had to 'master' subjects. But who can 'master' beauty, or peace, or joy?
This is a God who is not identified with the help of a dictionary but through a relationship.
Before you begin a thing remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. ... You can only see one thing clearly, and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin.
Marriage: a job. Happiness or unhappiness has nothing to do with it.
If ambition doesn't hurt you, you haven't got it.