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Lent's 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

Lent comes providentially to reawaken us, to shake us from our lethargy. — Pope Francis

Of darkness visible so much be lent, as half to show, half veil, the deep intent. — Alexander Pope

During Lent, let us find concrete ways to overcome our indifference. — Pope Francis

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

The sun shone into her mouth as into a tulip, and lent it a similar scarlet fire. — Thomas Hardy

Our loves are not given, but only lent, At compound interest of cent per cent. — Rudyard Kipling

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

Hazel, watching, lent help here and there and encouraged the others. — Richard Adams

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 an ennobling sadness you lent to my evening's enjoyment. — Colette

What is really being lent is not money, which is merely the medium of exchange, but capital. — Henry Hazlitt

I kinda don't do guilt. I gave it up for Lent years ago. — Greg Boyle

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

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

Lent is a time of grace, a time to convert and live out our baptism fully. — Pope Francis

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

Whorf, even though he died in 1941, lent us a meme. — Anonymous

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

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

By Jove the stranger and the poor are sent, and what to those we give, to Jove is lent. — Homer

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

I don't call myself a singer, I'm a voice, lent to music — Debby Ryan

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

Pleasure never comes sincere to man; but lent by heaven upon hard usury. — John Dryden

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

Every house we have lived in, every building to which our hands have lent their work, belongs to us by virtue of love or of regret. — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

I get a little behind during Lent, but it comes out even at Christmas. — Frank Butler