Lent Quotes
Collection of top 79 famous quotes about Lent
Lent Quotes & Sayings
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Frank [Zappa] was not a big fan of having lyrics, but sometimes he had things to say that lent themselves to lyrics.
— Gail Zappa
All that is due to us will be paid, although not perhaps by those to whom we have lent.
— Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
There was a mews in a lane which runs down by one wall of the garden. I lent the ostlers a hand in rubbing down their
— Arthur Conan Doyle
The suffering he had endured lent him clarity, discipline, and faith in hard times - perhaps especially in hard times.
— Joshua Wolf Shenk
During the season of Lent which begins today, we renew our commitment to the path of conversion, making more room for God in our lives.
— Pope Benedict XVI
The season of Lent is a participation in God's life, not an entrance fee to heaven. Our security comes from resting in God's free gift.
— Aaron Damiani
I liked the name Frog Brigade because it lent itself to a lot of cool imagery with the whole frog thing.
— Les Claypool
Pigpen and Dust lent a hand.
— Katie McGarry
No one has taken my heart in their hand. I haven't given it ... I have lent myself, rented myself out, but never given myself.
— Sylvia Kristel
After a Christmas comes a Lent.
— John Ray
All the librarians of my childhood. Who saw that a boy was afraid of heights and lent him wings.
— Fredrik Backman
The pale lunar touches which make beauties of hags lent divinity to this face, already beautiful.
— Thomas Hardy
Owe money at Easter and Lent will seem short to thee.
— James Howell
Those have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter.
— Benjamin Franklin
What is really being lent is not money, which is merely the medium of exchange, but capital.
— Henry Hazlitt
God is not interested in your art but, your heart.
— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common
discontent. — Matthew Arnold
discontent. — Matthew Arnold
I lent a friend of mine $10,000 for plastic surgery and now I don't know what he looks like.
— Emo Philips
Never point a finger where you never lent a hand.
— Robert Breault
Ginny Davis - poor, dead Ginny - had lent Connie a set of yoga DVDs that looked like they'd come from the ancient 1990s.
— Barry Lyga
Children are a precious gift, but they belong to no one but themselves. They are only lent us a little while.
— Jim Butcher
Humanity, morality, decency, might be forgotten, but codfish must still be had for the use of the faithful in Lent and on fast days.
— Francis Parkman
People used to say, 'Andy Serkis lent his movements to Gollum,' and now they say, 'Andy Serkis played Caesar.' That's a significant leap.
— Andy Serkis
I'd never understood why anyone would want to live forever. It had always seemed to me that death lent life a certain poignancy, a necessary tension.
— Karen Marie Moning
Man has been lent, not given, to life.
— Publilius Syrus
Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
A guilty suffering spirit is more open to grace than an apathetic or smug soul.' - Bread & Wine (day 5)
— Edna Hatlestad Hong
She lived among us for a while
And brought joy where she went.
We thought she was a gift of God
But learned she was but lent. — Joan W. Blos
And brought joy where she went.
We thought she was a gift of God
But learned she was but lent. — Joan W. Blos
The passive master lent his hand, To the vast Soul which o'er him planned.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
His ability to appear to be listening lent him an air of gravity without the inconvenience of an opinion of his own.
— James S.A. Corey
This child lent a solidity to him and Lil. They were a family now, an unbreakable unit of three.
— Kate Morton
Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
— Matthew Arnold
Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent. All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Iran said it will give up trying to make a nuclear weapon. But it got awkward when Iran said, 'But just for Lent. We'll start again on Monday.'
— Jimmy Fallon
Was this then Lent, pressing hard on the heels of Saturnalia? Not
— Ford Madox Ford
Archie says -Science- the same way he says -Modern-, as if someone has lent him the words and made him swear not to break them.
— Zadie Smith
Easter is so disappointing. You suffer all the way through lent, and what do you get for it? A ham.
— Garrison Keillor
Your eyes should never be lent to the devil; they belong to God. Be careful how you use your eyes!
— Billy Graham
I know what I'm giving up for Lent: my New Year's resolutions.
— Henny Youngman
Christianity, said Erasmus, has been made to consist not in loving one's neighbor but in abstaining from butter and cheese during Lent.
— Roland H. Bainton
A man who believes the word of a donkey in preference to my word does not deserve to be lent anything.
— Idries Shah
I often think the doctrine of fasting in Lent and having meatless days as old-fashioned ... it might be better to give up television.
— Michael Ramsey
Inherent power you possess as part of yourself. Granted power is lent or given by other people.
— Patrick Rothfuss
Lent is a favorable time for letting Christ serve us so that we in turn may become more like Him.
— Pope Francis
The rain was falling steadily now, but she felt as though she were somehow in collusion with it; it lent the day something conspiratorial,
— William Gibson
Lent begins with a challenge to clear out the mental and spiritual clutter and so discover how to live life to the full.
— Maggi Dawn
He doubted the hand of God but did not discount it - discarding only the God of the pulpit and the pious.
— Jeffrey Lent
Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music.
— Herbie Hancock
At one time I smoked, but in 1959 I couldn't think of anything else to give up for Lent so I stopped - and I haven't had a cigarette since.
— Ethel Merman
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.
— Anatole France
Fog and hypocrisy - that is to say, shadow, convention, decency - these were the very things that lent to London its poetry and romance.
— Ada Leverson
Nature has lent us life at interest, like money, and has fixed no day for its payment.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
The moment a book is lent I begin to miss it.
— Anatole Broyard
I get so bummed when I have to return the clothes I'm lent. It's easy to feel so special, but like Cinderella, you lose your shoes.
— Morgan Saylor
Last chance to get out and live a normal life," he said. "Are you kidding? I gave that up for Lent," she answered with a roll of her eyes.
— Karina Halle
I like when people give up chocolate for Lent. Ooh, just like being nailed to a cross.
— Greg Giraldo
Borrowers are nearly always ill-spenders, and it is with lent money that all evil is mainly done and all unjust war protracted.
— John Ruskin
His brain and his heart knew this, but he couldn't stop himself, and the razor of his conscience lent the undeniable thrill of pain to the act.
— Robert Girardi
Lent is a good time for sacrificing. Let us deny ourselves something every day to help others,
— Pope Francis
The joy of Lent is the interior peace that comes from the grace of being renewed in Christ Jesus.
— Paul Jerome Keller
We all need to improve, to change for the better. Lent helps us fight against our faults.
— Pope Francis
Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
So the librarians at UCLA worked very hard to find another copy of Villacorta's rendition of the Dresden Codex, and lent it to me.
— Richard Feynman
Man wants but little, nor that little long; How soon must he resign his very dust, Which frugal nature lent him for an hour!
— Edward Young