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Lent

Lent prepares us for Easter by asking us to do the very thing Jesus did for us–sacrifice something of ourselves.

St. Gregory Nazianzen Lent Quote

Give something, however small, to the one in need. For it is not small to one who has nothing. Neither is it small to God, if we have given what we could.

St. Gregory Nazianzen

Joan Chittister Lent Quote

Lent is a call to renew a commitment grown dull, perhaps, by a life more marked by routine than by reflection.

Joan Chittister, American Benedictine nun and author

Megan Westra Lent Quote Free

What if we view this desert time of Lent as not just a time to reflect or to lament or to confess or to fast, but a time where we learn to be free.

Megan Westra, author

Dallas Willard Lent Quote

Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.

Dallas Willard, author

Francis De Sales Lent Quote

Lent is the autumn of the spiritual life during which we gather fruit to keep us going for the rest of the year.

St. Francis De Sales

Megan Westra Lent Quote

If the invitation of Lent is to practice abstaining from something to focus more fully on who God is and how God is at work in the world, then I need to fast from my dependence on criticism.

Megan Westra, pastor and author

W David O Taylor Lent Quote

Each year, around the latter part of winter, Lent arrives. It nearly always surprises me. Here it is, once again, summoning me to change how I typically live.

W. David O. Taylor, author
Palm fronds and a bowl of ashes

A Change of Heart

No, I tell you, but unless you change your hearts and lives, you will die just as they did.—Luke 13:3 (CEB)

Carolyn Arends Lent Ash Wednesday

Without the breath of God, we are but dust. On the brink of Lent, Ash Wednesday helps us remember the life and death stakes in our own stories.

Carolyn Arends, musician and author

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