A Runner's Thoughts: "It is mercy I desire, and not sacrifice." (See Hosea 6:6)
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A Runner's Thoughts: “Music... will help dissolve your perplexities and purify your character and sensibilities, and in time of care and sorrow, will keep a fountain of joy alive in you.” (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)
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) Perhaps the best example that St. Joseph give us!
A Runner's Thoughts: “Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” (St. Francis Of Assisi) Perhaps these words from St. Francis could be said a little differently – “Start by praying for what is necessary, then pray for what is possible and suddenly we will be praying for and experiencing what we think is impossible, but for God all things are possible!”
A Runner’s Thoughts: “We all have dreams. In order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline and effort.” (Jesse Owens)
A Runner's Thoughts: “Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.” (Malcolm Muggeridge) What does today's parable tell us?
A Runner’s Thoughts: “In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.” (Fr. Pierre Teilhard De Chardin, SJ)
PS If you cannot get to Mass today watch The Sunday Mass at www.thesundaymass.org or at www.youtube.com/user/thesundaymass 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)
A Runner's Thoughts: “We have been called to heal wounds, to unite what has fallen apart, and to bring home those who have lost their way.” (St. Francis of Assisi)
A Runner's Thoughts: Let us let our faith be bigger than our fear today and always.
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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
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