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) and “All shall be well…because there is a force of love moving through the universe that holds us fast and will never let go.” (Julian of Norwich) Perhaps two of the best examples that St. Joseph gives us!
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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: "May the strength of God pilot us, may the wisdom of God instruct us, may the hand of God protect us, may the word of God direct us. Be always ours this day and for evermore." (St. Patrick)
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)
A Runner’s Thoughts: “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” (Aristotle)
A Runner’s Thoughts: “Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.” (Bill Keane)
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)
A Runner’s Thoughts: “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” (Albert Einstein)
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) |
Fr. Paul R. Fagan, C.P. "Preacher on the Run!"A thought from time to time about Running and Life! Archives
May 2023
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