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Ash Quotes by Thomas Merton
- Even the darkest moments of the liturgy are filled with joy, and Ash Wednesday, the beginning of the lenten fast, is a day of happiness,…
- Nevertheless, the liturgy of Ash Wednesday is not focussed on the sinfulness of the penitent but on the mercy of God. The question of sinfulness…
- Ash Wednesday is full of joy...The source of all sorrow is the illusion that of ourselves we are anything but dust.
More Ash Quotes
- Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. — Leonard Cohen
- There is a beautiful spirit breathing now Its mellowed richness on the clustered trees, And, from a beaker full of richest dyes,… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Let us look for secret things somewhere in the world on the blue shore of silence or where the storm has passed… — Pablo Neruda
- Time is passing. Yet, for the United States of America, there will be no forgetting September the 11th. We will remember every… — George W. Bush
- Got a hundred grand in my ash tray, spend a 100 k on a bad day. — Wiz Khalifa
- We are better people than what these laws represent, and it is time to discard them into the ash heap of history. — John E. Jones III
- It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of history . . . . [It is] the march of freedom… — Ronald Reagan
- Them chickens is ash and I'm lotion. — Mariah Carey
- The Passion of the Christ opened up on Ash Wednesday, had a Good Friday. — Billy Crystal
- The body is a multilingual being. It speaks through its color and its temperature, the flush of recognition, the glow of love,… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
- An old Arabian fable tells of a prince imprisoned in a castle which had thirteen windows. Twelve of these windows overlooked lovely… — James Keller
- Tradition does not mean to look after the ash, but to keep the flame alive. — Jean Jaures