40 Ash Wednesday phrases to turn to the Lord

Ash Wednesday marks the return to the path of conversion, change in behavior and surrender to Jesus!

In shades of grey, we repent of our mistakes and want to get closer to God!

Because we believe the Good News, we leave our mistakes behind and seek to please the Lord.

What makes us return to God is our change of attitude. It’s not taking with us the mistakes we’ve made until now.

God calls us to turn to a change of life, to surrender to Him. May this Ash Wednesday, we hear his call.

The Holy Spirit breathes into us renewal. He teaches us to open our hearts and start over.

Lent will begin and it is our time to prove to the Lord that all we want most is to live in His love.

Lent is not a time for sacrifice, but for maturing our faith and showing the Lord that we are ready.

In mercy, God gives us Ash Wednesday. May we also forgive those who have wronged us.

Ash Wednesday is not just about asking the Lord for forgiveness, but also releasing forgiveness to those who hurt us as Christ taught us.

May the time for conversion, salvation and a new life with God begin!

Believe in the Gospel, trust in the Lord and know that He awaits you back!

On Ash Wednesday, we are reminded of our origin: we are dust and to dust we will return.

Let the period of learning more about faith begin, of trusting God more and opening your heart so that He can heal you.

Every Christian needs to go through Ash Wednesday so that his faith can mature.

On Ash Wednesday, you don’t need to stop seeing the colors in life, you just need to see them in the Lord again.

It’s time to check if the roads you’ve followed here are taking you closer to the Lord!

Don’t use excuses, return to the Lord the way you are because, like the prodigal son welcomed by the Father, He still loves you.

Ash Wednesday symbolizes hope in the new life that God will give us. Don’t be discouraged from your faith!

That this Ash Wednesday, we can surrender to God and walk where He wants us to go.

Allow Ash Wednesday to make you live a sincere faith and communion with the Lord.

Fasting, almsgiving and prayer are our way of telling God that we are willing to follow His path.

May we go through Ash Wednesday and Lent without discouragement or complaints, for it is to increase our love for God that we do penance. May there be fruits of conversion!

Believe and allow God to use this time to act in your life and show His immense love.

It is time to turn to the Lord and repent of the things of the flesh. It’s Ash Wednesday.

Remember your Savior and that He calls you to come back to Him.

We need to have our hearts prepared for the day we return to the ashes.

It is time to talk more with God, to be closer to Him and to prepare to celebrate Salvation.

Ash Wednesday turns our eyes to Lent and reminds us to seek the Lord more.

Is this the fast I would choose, that a man one day afflict his soul, that he bow his head like a reed, and spread sackcloth and ashes under him? Would you call this a fast and a pleasant day for the Lord?

Isaiah 58:5

It is time to find our way back to the place where our faith is strongest.

When the ashes of the fourth turn white, when the notes of the lines turn soft, I’ll let my voice rest.

Father Fabio de Melo

And I turned my face to the Lord God, to seek him with prayer and supplication, with fasting, and sackcloth and ashes.

Daniel 9:3

And saying, the time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand. Repent, and believe the gospel.

Mark 1:15

So we are ambassadors for Christ, as if God were pleading for us. We beseech you therefore on the part of Christ, be reconciled to God.

2 Corinthians 5:20

And we, cooperating also with him, exhort you not to receive the grace of God in vain. (For it says, In an acceptable time I heard you, and in the day of salvation I helped you; behold, now is the acceptable time, behold, now is the day of salvation.)

2 Corinthians 6:1-2

Lent is a time to believe, that is, to welcome God into our lives, allowing Him to make His home in us.

Pope Francis

The ashes on the head remind us that we are dust and to dust we shall become. But upon this dust which we are, God breathed the Spirit of life into it.

Pope Francis

But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thy head, and wash thy face, that thou appear not to men that thou ist fasting, but to thy Father which is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you publicly.

Matthew 6:17-18