Quotes About Lent

You may as well wait 40 more days to call me because I'm giving up flaky guys for Lent.

Let's hope this Lent we're able to give up freezing our asses off for 40 days.

Your Facebook friends are praying for you to give up Facebook for Lent.

This Lent, I'm giving up fantasizing about all the things I was going to buy with the Christmas bonus I never got.

This Lent, I'm giving up making jokes about what I'm giving up.

My employer is giving up paying me for Lent.

Lent is my favorite time of year to not be Christian.

I'm giving up Internet porn for Lent so I'll be needing a lot more actual sex.

Lent is when I determine which addictions I may still have some control over.

If you give up gossip for Lent, I'm going to spend 40 straight days talking sh.. about you.

I wish my coworkers would give up talking to me for Lent.

During lent, the only meat that the Catholic Church allows its followers to eat is salted fish. However, because people got very bored of fish at every supper for forty days, the church actually changed the definition of 'fish' to include puffins, beavers and turtles as they can all swim.

Holy Saturday is a day of joy and sadness intermingled; it is the close of the season of Lent and penance and the beginning of paschal time, which is one of rejoicing.

Lent, which seems so long, is short at other men's tables.

A dry Lent, a fertile year.

He is as good a Catholic as Duke Alva's dog; who ate flesh in Lent.

He is as welcome as the first day in Lent.

Though neither of us has entered a church in years, I propose we leave work to spend six minutes getting ashes on our foreheads and 2 1/2 hours eating lunch.

Just wanted to remind you I didn't give up sex for Lent.

The Christian year has a rhythm, each season its own tonality and coloration. Without Lent, the year is bland.

And eventually, the choosing becomes easier, the darkness lifts, and walking in Jesus' way is not quite such a strugglefor a while. But the darkness will always return, often unexpectedly. That is why I need Lent, because it bears witness to the reality of darkness, of doubt, of fear, of pain. And it carries me through those real places, real experiences into one that is more fully and truly Real: the Reality of Resurrection, of Light, of Life.

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?

During Lent, let us find concrete ways to overcome our indifference.

Lent is not just a period of repentance, it is an opportunity for repentance, a period that reminds us of our daily duties towards holiness as a global family.