A Runner’s Thoughts: “You see things; and you say ‘why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘why not?’” (George Bernard Shaw)
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A Runner’s Thoughts: Breath is usually expressed in Greek as pneuma, which can also mean air, wind, or spirit. In Hebrew ruah is translated as breath, but it can also mean creative energy or life-giving force. As we live life let us have an awareness of our breath as spirit, as our capacity to bring God into our being as we take in oxygen into our lungs. If we see each breath this way, we will begin to allow our life to become prayer! (Adapted from Running the Spiritual Path by Roger Joslin)
A Runner’s Thoughts: “Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.” (St. Teresa of Calcutta)
A Runner's Thoughts: “I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again - I dwell among the people.” (St. John Henry Newman)
A Runner’s Thoughts: “There is only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything.” (Vince Lombardi)
A Runner’s Thoughts: “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.” (Mark Twain)
A Runner’s Thoughts: “If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you," that would suffice.” (Meister Eckhart, O.P.)
A Runner’s Thoughts: “The time is always right to do what is right.” (Martin Luther King Jr.)
A Runners' Thoughts: “Embracing [Jesus’] cross means finding the courage to embrace all the hardships of the present time, abandoning for a moment our eagerness for power and possessions in order to make room for the creativity that only the Spirit is capable of inspiring. It means finding the courage to create spaces where everyone can recognize that they are called, and to allow new forms of hospitality, fraternity and solidarity. By his cross we have been saved in order to embrace hope and let it strengthen and sustain all measures and all possible avenues for helping us protect ourselves and others. Embracing the Lord in order to embrace hope: that is the strength of faith, which frees us from fear and gives us hope.” (From Pope Francis’ homily during the Extraordinary Moment of Prayer March 27, 2020)
A Runner's Thoughts: “An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.” (Mahatma Gandhi)
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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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