A Runner’s Thoughts:
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A Runner’s Thoughts: “We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.” (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)
A Runner’s Thoughts: “Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.” (Meister Eckhart)
A Runner’s Thoughts: A few years ago on Trinity Sunday, Fr. Paul Ruttle, C.P. opened his homily on our televised mass, The Sunday Mass, by asking the congregation what 1+1+1 equals. One of the young high school students in the congregation yelled out 3! Fr. Paul said on any other day, at any other time you would be right but today you are wrong, because today 1+1+1=1. The person of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit equal one God.
You might say we are not using, new math or old math, we are using Church math! Happy Trinity Sunday! A Runner’s Thoughts: “All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.” (Orison Swett Marden)
A Runner’s Thoughts: “Anytime you have the opportunity to make a difference in this world and you don’t, then you are wasting your time on Earth.” (Roberto Clemente)
A Runner’s Thoughts: “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” (Albert Einstein)
A Runner’s Thoughts: “Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.” (Bill Keane)
A Runner’s Thoughts: “Love is the guarantee that the life of the Spirit is growing in us. Love is the sign of the Holy Spirit at work in the Church and in the world.” (Thomas Merton)
A Runner’s Thoughts: “A [person] can fail many times, but he [or she] isn’t a failure until he [or she] begins to blame somebody else.” (John Burroughs)
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