Quotes for Lent

lunamoth · 03-19-2006, 03:20 AM

Hi All, I thought I'd start a thread to share Bible paasages and other sayings or quotes we find especially meaningful for the season of Lent. They don't have to be related to Lent and Easter, just something you find inspirational at this time of year.

peace,
lunamoth

lunamoth · 03-19-2006, 03:22 AM

...thay are now justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a sacrifice of atonement by his blood, effective through faith.--Romans 3:24-25

Quahom1 · 03-19-2006, 03:42 AM

Lent is not a deprivation, but rather a reminder of what you have been blessed with. By depriving self of your blessings, you remember them with more appreciation (Mom H.)

Bandit · 03-19-2006, 05:32 AM

i dont do lent but respect those who do.

i am not sure if this is a literal lent or a liberal lent, i dont know if this is a literal meaningful or a liberal meaningful.

so i dont know what scriptures to put.

(John 11:35) Jesus wept

Bandit · 03-19-2006, 05:37 AM

i will share quotes from a song i like instead, if that will be ok

As I journey through the land, singing as I go,
Pointing souls to Calvary—to the crimson flow,
Many arrows pierce my soul from without, within;
But my Lord leads me on, through Him I must win.

Oh, I want to see Him, look upon His face,
There to sing forever of His saving grace;
On the streets of glory let me lift my voice,
Cares all past, home at last, ever to rejoice.

lunamoth · 03-19-2006, 03:57 PM

Hi Bandit, thank you for sharing, but please don't make this thread into a debate.

peace,
lunamoth

lunamoth · 03-19-2006, 04:03 PM

"I don't preach a social goapel; I preach the gospel, period. The gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ is concerned for the whole person. When people were hungry, Jesus didn't say, 'Now is that political or social?' He said, 'I feed you.' Because the good news to a hungry person is bread."

--Desmond Tutu

Quahom1 · 03-19-2006, 05:42 PM

No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good. A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is. After all, you find out the strength of the German army by fighting it, not by giving in. A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later.
That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in. We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it.

(C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity, p 13)

lunamoth · 03-19-2006, 10:56 PM

O Lord, make me an instrument of your Peace!
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is discord, harmony;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light, and
Where there is sorrow, joy.

Oh Divine Master,
grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love;
for it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to Eternal Life.

--St. Francis of Assisi

Bandit · 03-19-2006, 11:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lunamoth

Hi Bandit, thank you for sharing, but please don't make this thread into a debate.

peace,
lunamoth

i want to clear this up.
not all christians do lent in the literal sense. if you read my first post you will see where i was being very serious & i said I RESPECT THOSE WHO DO IT.

AND I said,
I DO NOT KNOW WHAT SCRIPTURES TO PUT.
so i put the shortest one & shared a song because i do not really know what scriptures go with it that are meaningful to lent.

by literal meaningful- i do not know what scriptures go with lent. i am only aware that it is something observed by catholics from my understanding it is probably like fasting, but i am still not sure.

please accept my apology - however i was being serious & admonishing to those who do lent by saying i respect those who do & trying to chime.
a debate was not intended.

again, i am sorry & sorry for that being taken wrong.
i wont be posting on the christian board, for awhile, if ever- so hopefully that will make things better here.

lunamoth · 03-19-2006, 11:14 PM

Thank you for clearing that up Bandit. I hope you will continue to post in this thread. Lent refers to the weeks leading up to Easter; how one uses this time will vary although traditionally it is a time to reflect on our life and relationship with God and neighbor, to repent of the sin we find in our life, and renew our committment to God.

peace,
lunamoth

BTW, the song you shared was beautiful and quite appropriate.