SO GOOD QUOTES

We Christians nowadays often do the exact opposite of the saints who ate in public and fasted in secret. We tend to fast in public and to eat in private. When our churches have functions during Lent, or when we visit or invite friends who are fasting, then we fast ourselves. But when we are alone, we eat. And we generally fabricate good reasons for ourselves to justify our actions.

—Thomas Hopko, The Lenten Spring