#Lent Verses/Quotes of the Day
Throughout Lent, I’ll be posting daily quotes, mostly from the Bible, to motivate and inspire you through the season of grace, and through our life in this world of which Lent is a type.
Take these verses to prayer, perhaps one by one. Pray about each one individually, and let Him speak to you through them.
I understand that these are gloomy, particularly when seen all together without a corresponding hopeful verse to balance them, but let this Lent crush your false hopes, your illusory wishes, and make space for true hope, which “does not disappoint.” (Rom 5:5)
- ASH WEDNESDAY: “Do not harm the land or the sea or the trees until we put a seal on the foreheads of the servants of our God.” (Rev 7:3)
“They will see His Face, and His Name will be on their foreheads.” (Rev 22:4) - We are dust and shadows. — Horace
- Every day I face my death. — 1 Cor 15:31
4. The life of man upon the earth is a warfare. — Job 7:1
5. Blessed be G-d, my Rock, Who trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle. — Psalm 144:1
6. All flesh is grass. — Isaiah 40:6, 1 Peter 1:24
7. You are like smoke that appears for awhile and vanishes. — James 4:14
8. Wretched man that I am! Who will save me from this body of death? — Romans 7:24
9. I beat my body and lead it captive so that I will not be disqualified. — 1 Cor 9:27
10. What good is it to gain the whole world but lose your own soul? — Mk 8:36, Mt 16:26
11. Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me. — Mt 16:24
12. When you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that you have received, only what you have given. — St. Francis of Assisi
13. May you never be numbered among those whose house is peaceful, quiet and free from care; those on whom the Lord’s chastisement does not descend; those who live out their days in prosperity, and in the twinkling of an eye will go down to hell. — St. Raymond of Penafort
14. Everything done under the sun is emptiness, vexation of spirit, chasing after wind. — Ecclesiastes 1:14
15. Naked came I into this world, and naked I will depart. — Job 1:21
16.We took nothing into this world, and we take nothing out of it. — 1 Tim 6:7
17. Riches profit not in the day of wrath. — Prov 11:4
18. Cast but a glance at riches, and they are gone, for they will surely sprout wings and fly off to the sky like an eagle. — Proverbs 23:5
19. If anyone would come after Me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me. — Mt 16:24
20. Whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. — Mt 16:25
21. What will it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his own soul? — Mt 16:26
22. Whoever does not take up their cross and follow Me is not worthy of Me. — Mt 10:38
23. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. — James 4:7
24. We all must appear before the judgment seat of Christ. — 2 Corinthians 5:10
25. Narrow is the road that leads to life, and few find it. — Mt 7:14
26. Brief are man’s days, and full of sorrow. — Job 14:1
27. Even the just man is scarcely saved. — 1 Peter 4:18
28. By good works, strive to make your election sure. — 2 Peter 1:10
