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A Runner’s Thoughts: “Do not let your deeds belie your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, ‘Why do you not practice what you preach?’” and “A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.” (St. Jerome)
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A Runner’s Thoughts: “Peace begins with a smile...” “What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.” (St. Teresa of Calcutta)
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…
A Runner’s Thoughts: “Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.” (John Lennon) and "Let us allow God to act; He brings things to completion when we least expect it." (St. Vincent de Paul)
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: “It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.”
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