Greg Giraldo Quotes

Why did she give up wine for Lent? Polly was more sensible. She had given up strawberry jam. Cecilia had never seen Polly show more than a passing interest in strawberry jam, although now, of course, she was always catching her standing at the open fridge, staring at it longingly. The power of denial.

Went to church and fasted all day.

Lent is a fitting time for self-denial; we would do well to ask ourselves what we can give up in order to help and enrich others by our own poverty. Let us not forget that real poverty hurts: no self-denial is real without this dimension of penance. I distrust a charity that costs nothing and does not hurt.

In the Catholic tradition, the idea of giving something up on a Friday - the act of self denial - has always been tied with being generous to those in need.

Concerning the harsh treatment of the body for our Lord's sake, I would say, avoid anything that would cause the shedding even of a drop of blood.

We have to sacrifice before we can prosper.

I often think the doctrine of fasting in Lent and having meatless days as old-fashioned...it might be better to give up television.

Not he who scorns the Saviour's yoke Should wear his cross upon the heart.

To take up the cross of Christ is no great action done once for all; it consists in the continual practice of small duties which are distasteful to us.

The life of each and every one of us has been written. The crucifix is my autobiography. The blood is the ink. The nails the pen. The skin the parchment. On every line of that body I can trace my life. In the crown of thorns I can read my pride. In the hands that are dug with nails, I can read avarice and greed. In the flesh hanging from him like purple rags, I can read my lust. In feet that are fettered, I can find the times that I ran away and would not let him follow. Any sin that you can think of is written there.

Lent is a good time for sacrificing. Let us deny ourselves something every day to help others.

Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.

The only right a Christian has is the right to give up his rights.

A crucified Savior will never be content to have a self-pleasing, self-indulging, worldly-minded people.

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.

I was trying to say something about Christianity, the idea that you have to be tortured to attain heaven. I didn't believe that.

What people don’t realize is how much religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is the cross.

If you are going to follow Jesus, you better look good on wood.

I didn't mind giving up carnality, jewelry and red meat in return for comradeship and an afterlife.

The point is to show who is the cross and who the crucified.

The Passion of the Christ opened up on Ash Wednesday, had a Good Friday.

The Cross was the manifestation of Divine love without reserve or limit; but it was also the expression of man's unutterable malignity.

Christ did not suffer and die to offer cheap grace. Jesus did not go willingly to the cross so we could have an easy life or offer a faith built on easy-believism. As someone once said, 'Salvation is free, but not cheap.' It cost Jesus His life.

To abandon all, to strip one's self of all, in order to seek and follow Jesus Christ naked to Bethlehem where He was born, naked to the hall where He was scourged, and naked to Calvary where He died on the cross, is so great a mystery that neither the thing nor the knowledge of it, is given to any but through faith in the Son of God.