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)
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A Runner’s Thoughts: Before we speak or write something we should first ask ourselves three questions – Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary?
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: “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: “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: “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)
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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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