Good Lenten Quotes

#1. A good lenten answer! I can tell thee where that saying was born, of 'I fear no colours.

William Shakespeare

#2. Only the impossible is worth the effort.

Jeanette Winterson

#3. The real sin of idolatry is always committed on behalf of something similar to the State.

Simone Weil

#4. Him.You are good, O God, and You are faithful. Tenderize and soften our Lenten hearts, we pray, lest they grow brittle and break.

Jan Karon

#5. Science is a good thing. News reporters are good things too. But it's never a good idea to put them in the same room.

Scott Adams

#6. I think it's appropriate that we simplify, clarify and strengthen, so instead of this nebulousness, we have clarity and authority invested in teachers once more.

Michael Gove

#7. Kindness should become the natural way of life,not the exception.

Gautama Buddha

#8. [I provoke] the system [to] show its true face ... so that through its own acts of terrorism ... the masses will rise against it.

Ulrike Meinhof

#9. A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

William Cowper

#10. The American spirit is stronger than stone and mortar, tougher than steel and glass, and more enduring than any pain or suffering that can be inflicted on our national conscience.

Olympia Snowe