Lent Quotes

152 Lent quotes by 104 unique authors

One lamp — thy mother’s love — amid the stars Shall lift its pure flame changeless, and before The throne of God, burn through eternity… — Nathaniel Parker Willis
God has lent us the earth for our life; it is a great entail. It belongs as much to those who are to come after… — John Ruskin
Man has been lent, not given, to life. — Publilius Syrus
No one has taken my heart in their hand. I haven't given it... I have lent myself, rented myself out, but never given myself. — Sylvia Kristel
Indifference to our neighbor and to God also represents a real temptation for us Christians. Each year during Lent we need to hear once more… — Pope Francis
The observance of Lent is the very badge of Christian warfare. By it we prove ourselves not to be enemies of Christ. By it we… — Pope Benedict XIV
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
The reality is that our economy now consists of driving 250 million vehicles around the suburbs and malls and eating fried chicken. We don't manufacture… — Joe Bageant
I know what I'm giving up for Lent: my New Year's resolutions. — Henny Youngman
Of darkness visible so much be lent, as half to show, half veil, the deep intent. — Alexander Pope
A hundred thousand men were led By one calf near three centuries dead; They followed still his crooked way And lost a hundred years a… — Sam Walter Foss
One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common--discontent. — Matthew Arnold
Sometimes men and women prefer the darkness to the light because they are attached to their sins. Nevertheless it is only by opening oneself to… — Pope Benedict XVI
I was born and raised in the University of Chicago area and had an uneventful middle-class Catholic childhood. I had a heavy Catholic upbringing and… — Chaka Khan
My mother told me Homer Ditto was not my father. Nope. Mom had had a fling with some other guy who was my dad. Some… — Beth Ditto
Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music. — Herbie Hancock
I thought the idea of 'Smurfs' lent itself to the 3-D environment pretty well, I think, better than some of the farm animal movies that… — Neil Patrick Harris
I am not a member of any organization listed by the Attorney General as subversive. In any instance where I lent my name in the… — Judy Holliday
At one time I smoked, but in 1959 I couldn't think of anything else to give up for Lent so I stopped - and I… — Ethel Merman
Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another. — Jean Paul
The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when… — Marcel Proust
Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour. — Arthur Schopenhauer
Tough times have always lent themselves to nativist sentiments and closed-door policies. But in the case of highly skilled immigrants, these policies are a recipe… — James Surowiecki
I cap myself when I shop; I don't like to spend extravagant amounts on clothes. But, I do get lent clothes for events, it's scary… — Taylor Swift
What the mortgage bubble was all about was big banks like Goldman Sachs taking big bundles of subprime mortgages that were lent out largely to… — Matt Taibbi

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