Lent Quotes

152 Lent quotes by 104 unique authors

I lent a friend of mine $10,000 for plastic surgery and now I don't know what he looks like. — Emo Philips
Lent is the time for trimming the soul and scrapping the sludge off a life turned slipshod. Lent is about taking stock of time, even… — Joan D. Chittister
It is my hope that everyone's valiant efforts will have a ripple effect that will carry us forth into a fairer future. 'The arc of… — Unknown Author
Lent is a fitting time for self-denial; we would do well to ask ourselves what we can give up in order to help and enrich… — Pope Francis
During the season of Lent which begins today, we renew our commitment to the path of conversion, making more room for God in our lives. — Pope Benedict XVI
I've tended to avoid meeting my heroes. They aren't necessarily the nicest people anyway. The exception was George Harrison, one of the loveliest men I've… — Siobhan Fahey
We all need to improve, to change for the better. Lent helps us fight against our faults. — Pope Francis
Death is not the enemy of life, but its friend, for it is the knowledge that our years are limited which makes them so precious.… — Joshua L. Liebman
Our dead brothers and sisters still live for us and bid us think of life, not death-of life to which in their youth they lent… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
We are spirits. That bodies should be lent us while they afford us pleasure, assist us in acquiring knowledge or in doing good to our… — Benjamin Franklin
The question of good and evil will always be one of philosophy's most intriguing problems, up there with the problem of existence itself...If evil means… — Janet Finch
Nothing, how little so ever it be, if it is suffered for God's sake, can pass without merit in the sight of God. — Thomas a Kempis
Lent is a favorable time for letting Christ serve us so that we in turn may become more like Him. — Pope Francis
As Lent is the time for greater love, listen to Jesus' thirst...'Repen t and believe' Jesus tells us. What are we to repent? Our indifference,… — Mother Teresa
The celebration of Lent, in the context of the Year of Faith, offers us a valuable opportunity to meditate on the relationship between faith and… — Pope Benedict XVI
Are you capable of risking your life for someone? Do it for Christ. — Pope John Paul II
Lent comes providentially to reawaken us, to shake us from our lethargy. — Pope Francis
During Lent, let us find concrete ways to overcome our indifference. — Pope Francis
God is not merely at your fingertips but within your grasp. Live each day like a child digging through an antique treasure chest rifling for… — Margaret Feinberg
We can think of Lent as a time to eradicate evil or cultivate virtue, a time to pull up weeds or to plant good seeds.… — Fulton J. Sheen
Lent is a good time for sacrificing. Let us deny ourselves something every day to help others, — Pope Francis
Broader and deeper we must write our annals, from an ethical reformation, from an influx of the ever new, ever sanative conscience, if we would… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I look upon every good man, as a good book, lent by its owner for another to read, and transcribe the excellent notions and golden… — John Flavel
Lent is a time of grace, a time to convert and live out our baptism fully. — Pope Francis
Apart from the pleasure of looking at her and listening to her-of enjoying in her what others less discriminatingly but as liberally appreciated-he had the… — Edith Wharton

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