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Spiritual Growth

Spiritual growth comes in many forms, and at many speeds. Don’t rush your spiritual growth, but invest in it every day.

Thomas Merton Lent Quote Light

Lent is not just a time for squaring conscious accounts: but for realizing what we had perhaps not seen before. The light of Lent is given us to help us with this realization.

Thomas Merton, author and Trappist monk

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
A young woman prays

Fix Yourself First

For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.—Matthew 7:2 (NIV)

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
Starry desert sky

Energize Your Life

I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.—John 10:10 (NIV)

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

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