A Runner’s Thoughts: “There are always going to be waves on the surface. Instead of trying to bodysurf or change the tides, the wisest thing to do is dive deeper.” (Kristin Armstrong) So to in the spiritual life…
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A Runner’s Thoughts: “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” (Mahatma Gandhi)
A Runner’s Thoughts: “We are all meant to be mothers of God...for God is always needing to be born.” (Meister Eckhart)
A Runner’s Thoughts: “We are all meant to be mothers of God...for God is always needing to be born.” (Meister Eckhart)
A Runner’s Thoughts: “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” (Albert Einstein)
A Runner’s Thoughts: My friends, what good is it to profess faith without practicing it? Such faith has no power to save one, has it? If a sister or brother has nothing to wear and no food for the day, and we say to them, “Good-bye and good luck! Keep warm and well fed,” but do not meet their bodily needs, what good is that? So, it is with faith that does nothing in practice. It is thoroughly lifeless. (From the Letter of James 2:13-17)
A Runner’s Thoughts: “Instead of imposing new obligations, (Christians) should appear as people who wish to share their joy, who point to a horizon of beauty and who invite others to a delicious banquet.” (Pope Francis)
A Runner’s Thoughts: “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” (Oscar Wilde)
A Runner’s Thoughts: “An object at rest tends to stay at rest and an object in motion tends to stay in motion.” (Newton's First Law of Motion) The living of life needs a balance between motion and rest, between sound and silence, between company and solitude, but we always need the friendship of God!
A Runner’s Thoughts: The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals, they are the struggles within yourself – the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us – that’s where it's at. (Jesse Owens) So too in the spiritual life…
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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
April 2024
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