A Runner's Thoughts: “I can’t change the world but I can change the world in me. if I rejoice.” (From the Song “Rejoice” by U2)
0 Comments
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 gives us!
A Runner’s Thoughts: “For by grace you have been saved through faith,
and this is not from you; it is the gift of God; it is not from works, so no one may boast.” (Ephesians 2:8-9) A Runner's Thoughts: "It is mercy I desire, and not sacrifice." (See Hosea 6:6)
“More smiling, less worrying. More compassion, less judgment. More blessed, less stressed. More love, less hate.” (Roy T. Bennett)
A Runner's Thoughts: “I don’t want to be an anti, against anybody. I simply want to be the builder of a great affirmation: the affirmation of God, who loves us and who wants to save us.” (St. Oscar A. Romero)
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)
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)
|
Fr. Paul R. Fagan, C.P. "Preacher on the Run!"A thought from time to time about Running and Life! Archives
May 2023
Categories |