Within the Church, sins are forgiven in three ways: by baptism, by prayer, and by the greater humility of penance; yet God… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The best penance is to have patience with the sorrows God permits. A very good penance is to dedicate oneself to fulfill… — Peter Damian Copy Share Image
My only crime was being a man and living in the world of men, and you don't have to do special penance… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
“To properly do penance one must express contrition for one’s sins and perform acts to repair the damage caused by those transgressions.… — Emily Thorne Copy Share Image
Let us read the lives of the saints; let us consider the penances which they performed, and blush to be so effeminate… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
“To remain strong in the effect as the Self (Swaparinaam) such that, ‘This is an effect of the non-Self (parparinaam) and it is not My effect;’… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Yes," said Locke."Yes, Master Ibelius. I'm going to put that fucker in the dirt as deeply as any man who's ever been… — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
Good Friday, ¦ A time for fasting and penance. We do this in memory, ¦ The memory of sacrifice and suffering, endured… — John Rokas Copy Share Image
To deny one's self, to take up the cross, denotes something immeasurably grander than self-imposed penance or rigid conformity to a Divine… — George C. Lorimer Copy Share Image
There must be some other possibility than death or lifelong penance ... some meeting, some intersection of lines; and some cowardly, hopeful… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
Repentance grows as faith grows. Do not make any mistake about it; repentance is not a thing of days and weeks, a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I know California isn't a real destination. You can't get there from New Jersey, not simply by following a line drawn on… — Kate Braverman Copy Share Image
Lent is a fitting time for self-denial; we would do well to ask ourselves what we can give up in order to… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give. But the less you have the more free you… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
In a few days I'll have lived one score and three days in this vale of tears. On I plod-always bored, often… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
In the life of the body a man is sometimes sick, and unless he takes medicine, he will die. Even so in… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but does not penetrate… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Marriage is a state of penance. It calls for prayer, fasting, alms-deeds, renunciation, and the intention to increase the Kingdom of God.” — Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich Copy Share Image
“Penance should be but the means to increase virtue according to the needs of the individual, and according to what the soul… — Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
I avoid that bleak first hour of the working day during which my still sluggish senses and body make every chore a… — John Kennedy Toole Copy Share Image
Christ commands you to take up His cross and follow Him, not that He may humble you, or lay some penance upon… — Horace Bushnell Copy Share Image
“The hermit said, ‘This is the way to be strong: when temptations start to speak in your mind do not answer them… — Benedicta Ward Copy Share Image
Living well has something to do with the spirituality of wholeheartedness, of seeing life more as a grace than as a penance,… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
I grew up Catholic. We went to confession on Saturday, stood in the shortest line, since it led to the priest who… — Regina Brett Copy Share Image
“I was raised a Roman Catholic, but it was the kind of domesticated Catholicism that focused mostly on the length of your… — Gina Barreca Copy Share Image
“God has become trapped in as many living beings as there are. Now should you feel contempt (irritated) towards one when God… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
There are three ways in which sins are forgiven: in baptism, in prayer, and in the greater humility of penance; yet God… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
“But there are some born to do penance by nature. Maybe they lift the load for some of us who take it… — Ellis Peters Copy Share Image
“Renounce (tyaag) if it is in your prakruti (inherent nature). Do penance (tapa) if it is in your prakruti. Chant (japa) if… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
I don't know what heavy penance could have come to mind that frequently I would not have gladly undertaken rather than recollect… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
“We're still dealing with the consequences of our actions. The people you drag down with you never go away. You have to… — Angie McKeon Copy Share Image
“Tattooists are the new priests for the fucked-up and the thrown away. They speak the language of symbol, and administer penance in… — Skyler White Copy Share Image
“many do not advance in the Christian progress because they stick in penances, and particular exercises, while they neglect the love of… — Brother Lawrence Copy Share Image
Everyone has a need to do penance. It's a basic need, like washing. It's about harmony, an absolutely essential inner balance. It's… — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
Penance to be sure must be used as a tool, in due times and places, as need may be. If the flesh,… — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
It makes that a virtue which is not a virtue, and that a crime which is not a crime. Religion consists in… — Henry M. Field Copy Share Image
Solitude, I reflected, is the one deep necessity of the human spirit to which adequate recognition is never given in our codes.… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
The Catholic community must offer support to those women who may find it difficult to accept a child, above all when they… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“Often what keeps us stuck and continually doing penance is the very feeling that we must pay for lack of action. We… — Noelle Sterne Copy Share Image
“What is this satsang (in Akram) like? Here, there are no such botherations of, 'do this', 'do good', 'do that', 'ask for… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
