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Keep reading our lent quotes and sayings from famous religious scholars, theologians, and the messengers of God, including Pope Francis.
In the Christian faith, Lent is a holy withdrawal period of 40 days where people remember the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.
The holy fasting and giving up on celebrations starts on Ash Wednesday and ends before Easter.
Lent is observed with the faith to understand the sufferings Holy Christ has to endure for a better humanity.
All Orthodox Christians, Catholics, and protestants undergo 40 days of fasting and prayer and reflect on their deep love and faith.
We hope our lent quotes and sayings make you a true worshiper and a more compassionate human being.
Best Lent Quotes And Sayings
Lent comes providentially to reawaken us, to shake us from our lethargy.
– Pope Francis
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
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life’s deepest joy true fulfillment.
– Tony Robbins
No pain, no palm no thorns, no throne no gall, no glory no cross, no crown.
– William Penn
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
– Winston Churchill
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
Those have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter.
– Benjamin Franklin
These special holidays give rise to various liturgical calendars that suggest we should mark our days not only with the cycles of the moon and seasons, but also with occasions to tell our children the stories of our faith community’s past so that this past will have a future, and so that our ancient way and its practices will be rediscovered and renewed every year.
– Brian D. McLaren
Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
– Christian Nestell Bovee
There would be no Christmas if there was no Easter.
– Gordon B. Hinckley
Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.
– Henry Ford
A rebirth out of spiritual adversity causes us to become new creatures.
– James E. Faust
God never tires of forgiving us we are the ones who tire of seeking his mercy.
– Pope Francis
Catholic Quotes On Lent
Lent is a fitting time for self-denial; we would do well to ask ourselves what we can give up in order to help and enrich others by our own poverty. Let us not forget that real poverty hurts: no self-denial is real without this dimension of penance. I distrust a charity that costs nothing and does not hurt.
– Pope Francis
The proof of love is in the works. Where love exists, it works great things. But when it ceases to act, it ceases to exist.
– Pope Gregory I
You’re happiest while you’re making the greatest contribution.
– Robert Kennedy
Nothing great is ever achieved without much enduring.
– St. Catherine of Siena
Apart from the cross, there is no other ladder by which we may go to heaven.
– St. Rose of Lima
Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.
– Stephen Covey
You can retire from a job, but don’t ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life.
– Stephen Covey
Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.
– John Adams
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.
– Frank Herbert
Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.
– Lord Acton
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
– Benjamin Franklin
Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.
– Bob Marley
Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves.
– Abraham Lincoln
Religious Lent Quotes And Sayings
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
– George Orwell
For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
– Nelson Mandela
Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed-else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.
– Dwight D. Eisenhower
Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.
– Harry Emerson Fosdick
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
– George Bernard Shaw
While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.
– Stephen Covey
Liberty doesn’t work as well in practice as it does in speeches.
– Will Rogers
Liberty is the condition of duty, the guardian of conscience. It grows as conscience grows. The domains of both grow together. Liberty is safety from all hindrances, even sin. So that Liberty ends by being Free Will.
– John Acton
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
– George Bernard Shaw
If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.
– Philip Wylie
You’re free. And freedom is beautiful. And, you know, it’ll take time to restore chaos and order – order out of chaos. But we will.
– President George W. Bush Washington
Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.
– Khalil Gibran
Liberty consists in the freedom to do everything which injures no one else; hence the exercise of the natural rights of each man has no limits except those which assure to the other members of the society the enjoyment of the same rights.
– Gilbert Du Motier
Faith And Lent Quotes
Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.
– Jean Paul Sartre
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
– Bertrand Russell
Every law is an infraction of liberty.
– Jeremy Bentham
Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
– Baron de Montesquieu
People hardly ever make use of the freedom they have, for example, freedom of thought; instead they demand freedom of speech as a compensation.
– Soren Kierkegaard
Liberty a word without which all other words are vain.
– Robert G. Ingersoll
Liberty is worth paying for.
– Jules Verne
Once freedom lights its beacon in a man’s heart, the gods are powerless against him.
– Jean-Paul Sartre
For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
– Samuel Johnson
There are three types of baseball players: Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen and those who wonder what happens.
– Tommy Lasorda
In the end, it’s about the teaching, and what I always loved about coaching was the practices. Not the games, not the tournaments, not the alumni stuff. But teaching the players during practice was what coaching was all about to me.
– John Wooden
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