“Misery is vitamin for the Soul (The Real-Self), and happiness is vitamin for the body (The Non-Self).” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
To do penance is to bewail the evil we have done, and to do no evil to bewail. — Pope Gregory I Copy Share Image
“There's a price for absolution on this planet, and it's called penance.” — Spider Robinson Copy Share Image
“Whatever consolation you accept, that much penance will be deficient.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“She'd only gotten what she deserved. No penance could wash away her sins. Not really.” — Denise Hunter Copy Share Image
“If one can remain in peace during agitation and anxiety; that is a real true of peace.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“But now seeing that great knowledge, while good, had not saved the world, he turned in penance to the Lord, crying.” — Walter Miller Copy Share Image
“If you knew you had no place in the lord’s kingdom, no penance to pay…would you still choose to sin?” — L.J. Scar Copy Share Image
The Raven's house is built with reeds, — Sing woe, and alas is me! And the Raven's couch is spread with weeds,… — Thomas D Copy Share Image
Through the oncoming storm and the days past its wake, spending the eternity it takes to to serve my penance. No wrong… — Leilani Spencer-Goodsir Copy Share Image
“We believe that this is ‘our’ home and ‘our’ family. No, it is a ‘shop’ for us to settle our karmas. It… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
No penance serves to renew them, no massive transfusions of trust. Why not even revenge can undo them, so twisted these vows… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
You have to do your First Penance before your First Holy Communion. You're really young. What do you know? You've got nothing… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
“What can be referred to as true internal penance? It is when the heart is actually burning within and One peacefully remains… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Oh, what peril attaches to sin willfully committed! For it is so difficult for man to bring himself to penance, and without… — Catherine of Genoa Copy Share Image
My austerities, fasting and prayers are, I know, of no value if I rely upon them for reforming me. My penance is… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Told often enough that they are the source of sin, women may well begin feeling guilty as they accept the necessity for… — Sandra M. Gilbert Susan Gubar Copy Share Image
I do not know what might be the most fitting description… I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Everything is possible for the believer. I have watched impure souls mad for physical love but turning what they know of such… — John Climacus Copy Share Image
“The path of moksha (ultimate liberation) has to be understood. This study of the self, doing penance, doing chanting is being done… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Rather than providing him with economic opportunity, the Act of that name seems designed to make the poor man do penance all… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
The Fathers of the Church can well afford to preach the gospel of Christ. It contains nothing dangerous to the regime of… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
No one should judge that he has greater perfection because he performs great penances and gives himself in excess to the staying… — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
“One may not have Gnan (Self-realization), but if he decides that he does not want to allow any “leakage” (weakness; straying away… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“I hope I am not for the killing, Anselmo was thinking. I think that after the war there will have to be… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
We find nothing easier than being wise, patient, superior. We drip with the oil of forbearance and sympathy, we are absurdly just,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“You men that be known from these others by your Christian profession. Take heed, you bear in mind the piety you owe… — Geoffrey of Monmouth Copy Share Image
“Why don't you just do it, then?" Racath hissed. "Just kill me. I dare you." Now, I assume you know what this… — S.G. Night Copy Share Image
“Guilt and self-image. When someone says, “I can’t forgive myself,” it indicates that some standard or condition or person is more central… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
It's a beautiful religion and I wish I understood it more. No, I don't want to understand it all. It's beautiful because… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
Tapas is not a penance, it's a mental training to develop will power — Baba Hari Dass Copy Share Image
And the only thing to do with a sin is to confess, do penance and then, after some kind of decent interval,… — Joseph J. Ellis Copy Share Image
If there is any justice in this world, to be a White Sox fan frees a man from any other form of… — Bill Veeck Copy Share Image
Start the practice of self-control with some penance; begin with fasting. — Mahavira Copy Share Image
“(b) That the external penance of the Romanist is an impertinent attempt to supplement the perfect satisfaction of Christ;” — Archibald Alexander Hodge Copy Share Image
Penance does not require hair shirts today; our neighbors are hair shirts. — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
![“The Fathers of the Church can well afford to preach the gospel of Christ. It contains nothing dangerous to the regime of authority and wealth; it stands for self-denial and self-abnegation, for penance and regret, and is absolutely inert in the face of every [in]dignity, every outrage imposed upon…” quote by Emma Goldman](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/840/emma-goldman-774_abnegation_the-fathers-of-the-church-can-well-affor_1830394.jpg)
