Rev Jen 10 Quotes for Lent 2024

Rev Jen 10 Quotes for Lent 2024 Give up something...take something on...think of others. Lent invites us to care more deeply for ourselves and our neighbour... to grow closer to God and be healthier/more alive in body, mind and spirit, for our own sake and the world’s.

1. ‘What if we view...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)

2. ‘Lent is like snowfall in the soul’... an invitation to find new clarity, lightness and joy in our lives. (Mark Oakley)

3. ‘O Lord, make this Lenten season different from the other ones. Let me find you again. Amen.’ (Rev Henri Nouwen)

4. ‘Lent is a time of going very deeply into ourselves... What is it that stands between us and our brothers and sisters? between us and God?...’ (Catherine Doherty)

5. ‘Seek a relationship when you pray, not answers. You won't always find answers, but you’ll always find Jesus.’ (Father Schmitz)

6. ‘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)

7. Lent comes...to shake us from our lethargy...helps us cultivate the style of the Good Samaritan who bent down to his brother in need and took care of him.’ (Pope Francis)

8. ‘It is not just about giving up our favourite food but ... giving up things like hatred and un-forgiveness’. (Amanda Jobs)

9. ‘There's something about it that makes sense, Lent. You give something up, and everything's more joyful.’ (Elaine Stritch)

10. ‘Have patience with all things, but first of all with yourself.’ (St. Francis de Sales)

God says: “Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice...to set the oppressed free and break every yoke? Is it not to share your food with the hungry and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter—when you see the naked, to clothe them?” (Isaiah 58:6-7)