Lenten Season Quotes

Let this lent remind us that our life and material possessions are just LENT to us. We’re all passers-by, pilgrims on the road. We bring nothing when we die, but leave behind the LOVE we have shared, the HOPE we have given and the GOODNESS we have done. A BLESSED HOLY WEEK!

We ought not to think of building holiness upon action, we ought to build it upon a way of being. For it is not what we do that makes us holy, but we ought to make holy what we do.

"We all suffer for each other, and gain by each other's suffering; for man never stands alone here, though he will stand alone hereafter; but here is he is a social being, and goes forward to his long home as one of a large company."~Cardinal Newman

There is no justification without sanctification, no forgiveness without renewal of life, no real faith from which the fruits of new obedience do not grow.

 Martin Luther

The Lord can clear the darkest skies. Can give us day for night. Make drops of sacred sorrow rise To rivers of delight. Isaac Watts

Christ’s salvation is offered to us freely, and cannot be earned by our actions. Despite this, Christians have struggled since the earliest days of the church with the temptation to try and earn God’s forgiveness by doing good works, following the law, or just living “good” lives. Why is it so hard for us to accept Christ’s gift? Is this a struggle for you?

If anyone tells you that the life of prayer is one uninterrupted experience of being happy with Jesus, do not follow him. He is not a safe guide. Those who follow the Lamb know that there are stretches of darkness and loneliness and perplexity along the way, and they know that Jesus himself went that way.

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.