Top 29 Quotes About Ash Wednesday: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Ash Wednesday

#1. Dying was just an extended version of Ash Wednesday.

#2. The Passion of the Christ opened up on Ash Wednesday, had a Good Friday.

#3. Francis walked in a solemn Ash Wednesday procession between churches on Rome's ancient Aventine Hill, calling on people to humbly remember their human limits.

Anonymous

#4. Since the Icelandic volcano obviously needs a virgin sacrifice and the Catholic Church obviously needs new leadership the Pope must volunteer to jump in the volcano. Pontiff, don't think of it as endorsing paganism, think of it as supersizing Ash Wednesday.

Bill Maher

#5. 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 is raised precisely because this is a day of mercy, and the just do not need a savior.

Thomas Merton

#6. I'm a sinner. I don't always love God as strongly as I could or as directly as I should. Ash Wednesday reminds me that it is only through God that I have life; He gave it to me. God forgives. He loves. And He gives this sinner a second chance. Put simply: my God kicks ash.

Mark Hart

#7. Ash Wednesday is full of joy ... The source of all sorrow is the illusion that of ourselves we are anything but dust.

Thomas Merton

#8. Before I was ordained, when I was working for the council, I thought of the first three months of the year as January, February, March. Now I think of them as Epiphany, Candlemas and Ash Wednesday.

Adam Smallbone

#9. 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, a Christian feast.

Thomas Merton

#10. Each year in early spring, during the season of Lent, which begins on Ash Wednesday and concludes on Easter, a plenitude of books, magazine articles, and television shows about Jesus appear.

Jay Parini

#11. I train my muscles, and I do a lot of stretching, and try to kick higher. But for me, practicing kung-fu is a way to relax myself.

Stephen Chow

#12. The dead linger sometimes.

Oscar Wilde

#13. Are you familiar with that play? In fact, we're almost living it!

Michael Buckley

#14. No one is really who people think they are. It's unfair. When they give us nicknames and create a story for us, everyone expects us to be that person and to live up to that legend.

Jonathan Maberry

#15. He has done things that caused me to doubt His wisdom, but never His existence.

Paulo Coelho

#16. Life is short. The world is big. It awaits your exploration. If you're not living on the edge, you're just taking up way too much space.

Paul Beaver

#17. Lord, I am not worthy
Lord, I am not worthy
but speak the word only.

T. S. Eliot

#18. I want to make my own movie.

Bam Margera

#19. Where shall the word be found, where will the word Resound?

T. S. Eliot

#20. The saddest aspect of life is that there is no one on earth whose happiness is such that he won't sometimes wish he were dead rather than alive.

Herodotus

#21. I'd stand on the street corner and score a steak," Cas said.
I couldn't help laughing. "You know, you might be flooded with business."
His mouth stretched into a lecherous grin. "If you come with me we could be rich by morning."
"Very funny.

Jennifer Rush

#22. That space the Evil One abstracted stood From his own evil, and for the time remained Stupidly good, of enmity disarmed, Of guile, of hate, of envy, of revenge .

John Milton

#23. Because these wings are no longer wings to fly
But merely vans to beat the air
The air which is now thoroughly small and dry
Smaller and dryer than the will
Teach us to care and not to care
Teach us to sit still

T. S. Eliot