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A Runner’s Thoughts: “But [as] with any obstacle in our lives, there are those moments, despite the setbacks, where there is a glimmer of hope.” (Rebekah Gregory) So to in the spiritual life…
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A Runner’s Thoughts: Life can often pull us down and causes us to struggle however in the living of life, prayer and a focus on others always lifts us up. (Adapted from a quote by Jerry Hadfield)
A Runner’s Thoughts: “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his [or her] point of view... Until you climb inside of his [or her] skin and walk around in it.” (Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird)
A Runner’s Thoughts: “Success rests in having the courage and endurance and, above all, the will to become the person you are, however peculiar that may be.” (George Sheehan) So to in the Spiritual life but we need to substitute the word, “faith” for the word “success!”
A Runner’s Thoughts: “When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.” (Helen Keller)
A Runner’s Thoughts: “The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.”
(Former President Barack Obama) A Runner’s Thoughts: “Forgive yourself when you fall short and get out the next day to finish what you started.” (Actor Sterling K. Brown)
A Runner’s Thoughts: “While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.” (St. Francis of Assisi)
A Runner’s Thoughts: “Love means to love that which is unlovable, or it is no virtue at all; forgiving means to pardon that which is unpardonable, or it is no virtue at all.” (G.K. Chesterton)
A Runner’s Thoughts: “It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.”
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