Lent Quotes

“During Lent try to live your new life of love.”

“Lent saps the spirits, as of course it is designed to do.”

“Lent comes providentially to reawaken us, to shake us from our lethargy.”

“Wikipedia: Lent”

“Wiktionary: Lent”

“As a liturgical season marked by its own urgency and intensity, Lent lends itself to reflection.”

“Lent is a time to listen God’s word in Bible, also called sacred scripture. We read the Bible at home. We listen carefully when it is proclaimed during Mass.”

“Lent is a time to renew wherever we are in that process that I call the divine therapy. It's a time to look what our instinctual needs are, look at what the dynamics of our unconscious are.”

“Lent is a season when we have opportunity to step back and look at our past choices and what we are presently choosing. In the end choices are quite limited: Life or death, God’s will or our own.”

“Is there a crucifix in your home? In your room? If not display one, especially during Lent. Wear a cross to remind yourself and others of God’s love.”

“During Lent we try to change our lives to the better. If we are heading down the path of sin, we turn around and go back to God. We try to practice virtues.”

“On Ash Wednesday we took our bearings for Lent from a vantage point where we could see in our imagination the movement of Jesus from the river to the desert.”

“Lord Jesus, you invite us during this Lenten season to journey with you and share more deeply in your life. You call us to a type of fasting that gives life to us and to others. Help us to discern your call so that we and others may come to fullness of life. Come, Jesus, come.”

“During this season of Lent, we pray that we might experience more deeply God’s mercy, goodness, and love. Despite our weaknesses and sins, we are invited to put the “if” questions in the lap of God and let him fill us with the assurance, the blessed assurance, of divine grace.”

“Lord Jesus, once again send the Spirit to our lives. We yearn to do your will but so many forces crowd your voice and bind us to your presence. Make this season of Lent the greatest time in our lives – a time of growth and renewal, a time of faith and love, a time of praise and thanksgiving.”

“Lastly, all persons were prohibited from marrying during Lent, which custom is observed to this day; The fast of the ember weeks is borrowed originally from the Jews. The season called the ember weeks consists in three days of strict fasting ...”

“God of life, strengthen our will to choose life. too often we have failed to be life-givers. Whether through negligence or laziness, we have not expended the energy you have given us to further your kingdom of life, love and light. May this Lenten season be filled with your grace; may we do whatever is pleasing to you.”

“Lent is as serious season since it involves reformation, transformation, and on going formation. More, the time is now and Jesus expresses an urgency that we allow God’s rule to govern our minds and hearts. Lent is a serious season because we are called to deepen our faith in the good news of God’s love and mercy revealed in Christ.”

“Lent is the time of our lives where we are most especially called to reflect on our own lives and ask ourselves, how much do we thirst for an intimate relationship with our loving Jesus who is just waiting for us to respond to His love? It is the time that we must deeply ponder how much do we thirst for a life that is life-giving to others?”

“Be careful not to do your 'acts of righteousness' before men, to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven. And why should there be a reward from God when the reward received was attention from man? What we do when giving up anything for Lent is unto God.”