This is a God who is not identified with the help of a dictionary but through a relationship.
I was taught that I had to 'master' subjects. But who can 'master' beauty, or peace, or joy?
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.
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.