A Runner's Thoughts: “Wisdom consists in doing the next thing you have to do, doing it with your whole heart, and finding delight in doing it.” (Meister Eckhart)
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A Runner's Thoughts: “With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.” (Eleanor Roosevelt)
A Runners' Thoughts: “If you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I am living for, in detail, ask me what I think is keeping me from living fully for the thing I want to live for.” (Thomas Merton)
A Runner's Thoughts: “The most important thing in the life of every man and every woman is not that they should never fall along the way. The important thing is always to get back up, not to stay on the ground licking your wounds.” (Pope Francis)
A Runner's Thoughts: “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
A Runner's Thoughts: “Lent is a time of going very deeply into ourselves… What is it that stands between us and God? Between us and our brothers and sisters? Between us and life, the life of the Spirit? Whatever it is, let us relentlessly tear it out, without a moment’s hesitation.” (Catherine De Hueck Doherty)
A Runner's Thoughts: “Good example is the most efficacious apostolate. By your good example and your words, animate others to know and love God.” (St. Mary Joseph Rossello)
A Runner’s Thoughts: “Life is for participating, not for spectating.” (Kathrine Switzer) So to in the spiritual life…faith is for participating, not spectating!
A Runner's Thoughts: “Virtues are formed by prayer. Prayer preserves temperance, suppresses anger, prevents emotions of pride and envy. Prayer draws into the soul the Holy Spirit, and raises us to heaven.” (St. Ephrem of Syria)
A Runner's Thoughts: “One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.” (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
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Fr. Paul R. Fagan, C.P. "Preacher on the Run!"A thought from time to time about Running and Life! Archives
April 2024
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