A Runner's Thoughts: “We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.” (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)
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A Runner's Thoughts: “Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.” (St. John XXIII)
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: Remember the little miracles of God that we encounter during the living of life are not because we are finished growing but are because we find the courage each day to begin anew!
A Runner’s Thoughts: “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” (Lao Tzu)
A Runner’s Thoughts: “Crossing the starting line may be an act of courage but crossing the finish line is an act of faith. Faith is what keeps us going when nothing else will. Faith is the emotion that will give you victory over your past, the demons in your soul, & all of those voices that tell you what you can and cannot do and can and cannot be.” (John "The Penguin" Bingham)
A Runner’s Thoughts: “There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves punishment, and the one who fears is not perfected in love.” (1John 4:18)
A Runner’s Thoughts: “Don’t count days, make days count.” (Muhammad Ali)
A Runner’s Thoughts: “Struggling and suffering are the essence of a life worth living. If you're not pushing yourself beyond the comfort zone, if you're not demanding more from yourself - expanding and learning as you go - you're choosing a numb existence. You're denying yourself an extraordinary trip.” (Dean Karnazes)
A Runner's Thoughts: “Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.” (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)
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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
May 2023
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