Quotes About Lenten

#1. 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

#2. O Lord, make this Lenten season different from the other ones.
Let me find you again. Amen.

Henri Nouwen

#3. Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: Prayer is co-operation with God. It is the purest exercise of the faculties God has given us - an exercise that links these faculties with the Maker to work out the intentions He had in mind in their creation.

E. Stanley Jones

#4. 'Tis spring; come out to ramble
The hilly brakes around,
For under thorn and bramble
About the hollow ground
The primroses are found.
And there's the windflower chilly
With all the winds at play,
And there's the Lenten lily
That has not long to stay
And dies on Easter day.

A.E. Housman

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

William Shakespeare

#6. Lenten fasts make me feel better, stronger, and more active than ever.

Catherine Of Genoa

#7. 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

#8. It's difficult for me to diet, so I don't. So, I make up for it in exercise. What I am willing to eat, I have to be willing to work off. It's that simple.

John Travolta

#9. It is my conviction that nothing enduring
can be built on violence.
The only safe way to overcome an enemy
is to make of that enemy a friend.

Mahatma Gandhi

#10. One should never initiate anything that he cannot saturate with prayer.

S.D. Gordon

#11. Reality is reality when it exists inside and outside the mind.

Joey Lawsin

#12. I think the next United manager is already at the club. It could be either Ryan Giggs or Ole Gunnar Solksjaer, who isn't at the club.

Michael Gray

#13. Life, as I see it, is not a location, but a journey. Even the man who most feels himself "settled" is not settled - he is probably sagging back. Everything is in flux, and was meant to be. Life flows. We may live at the same number of the street, but it is never the same man who lives there.

Henry Ford

#14. God is the creator of incredible beauty and all that He envisioned and desired to create, He also desired to share.

Michelle Carbotte

#15. Each day death corrodes what we call living, and life ceaselessly swallows our desire for the void.

Jindrich Styrsky

#16. If I'd wanted this place to fill up with every fat Irish rose that passes by, I'd've said so.

J.D. Salinger

#17. I tell him everything as we walk. Maybe so he won't be disappointed being born into a place like this.

Steven Herrick

#18. Except here it's more power, more energy, younger and also in Europe it's still not only entertainment. Theater or films are looked at as a moral institution. That's why maybe they're so poetic. Here it's clear entertainment.

Maximilian Schell

#19. I am not aware of anything below my neck. I live completely in my head.

Jamaica Kincaid

#20. Lent comes providentially to reawaken us, to shake us from our lethargy.

Pope Francis

#21. I was the first boy in the Kennedy family to graduate from college.

Mark Kennedy

#22. Religion does not stop adolescents from having sex; it only makes them feel bad about about the sex they do have.

Darrel Ray