A Runner’s Thoughts: “Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.” (Henri J.M. Nouwen)
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A Runner’s Thoughts: “The measure of who we are is how we react to something that doesn’t go our way.” (Gregg Popovich)
A Runner’s Thoughts: “The deeds you do may be the only sermon some persons will hear today” (St. Francis Of Assisi)
A Runner’s Thoughts: “If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you," that would suffice.” (Meister Eckhart)
A Runner’s Thoughts: “I tell you, unless your righteousness surpasses that
of the scribes and Pharisees, you will not enter into the Kingdom of heaven” (Mathew 5: 20) A Runner’s Thoughts: As we move through life today let’s imagine that God is at our side, moving along with us. Imagine how God would look with kindness into the faces of all whom the two of us would meet though out our day. Imagine how God would find good in everyone we encounter. Thus, as we journey through our day, let us look for the good in everyone. Let us look for the good within ourselves. (Adapted from Roger Joslin – Running the Spiritual Path)
A Runner’s Thoughts: “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
A Runner’s Thoughts: “There is no need to look for God here or there. He is no farther away than the door of your own heart.” (Meister Eckhart)
A Runner’s Thoughts: “The spiritual life is more about subtraction than it is addition.” (Meister Eckhart)
A Runner’s Thoughts: “And here the first word that I wish to say to you: joy! Do not be men and women of sadness: a Christian can never be sad! Never give way to discouragement! Ours is not a joy born of having many possessions, but of having encountered a Person: Jesus, in our midst.” (Pope Francis)
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