I always wished I could go to confession. I was so full of things I couldn't name and had an instinct to… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
When white men were willing to put their own offspring in the kitchen and corn field and allowed them to be sold… — Rebecca Latimer Felton Copy Share Image
“When a Catholic priest from across the street insulted one of our members, you demanded he apologize. When he did, you accepted,… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“—With the sole exception of Penance, which demands certain supernatural acts (faith, contrition, etc.) either as quasi-matter, or at least as a… — Joseph Pohle Copy Share Image
LOVE is essentially self-communicative: those who do not have it catch it from those who have it… No amount of rites, rituals,… — Meher Baba Copy Share Image
It hurts to look at the clouds, but it also helps, like most things that cause pain. So I need to run,… — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image
One woman approached me as she walked past and, pointing to her four children who were manfully helping the smallest ones over… — Rudolf Hoss Copy Share Image
I had grown accustomed to life being interesting and adventure ridden and, rather childishly, I refused to believe that this must necessarily… — J. Maarten Troost Copy Share Image
“Your God would never punish you for being a human being: this life itself is your penance...But it is also more than… — Mirabai Starr Copy Share Image
“My palm connected with the final looking-glass. A wave of brittle fractures rippled outward from the place my sanguine hand had struck.… — S.G. Night Copy Share Image
“It seems to me that although they have a respectable sales pitch, this business of a priest having the power to let… — Karl Wiggins Copy Share Image
He could hardly imagine anymore what his life would be without the weight of his hidden knowledge. He'd come to think of… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
I have travelled a good deal in Concord; and everywhere, in shops, and offices, and fields, the inhabitants have appeared to me… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Listen carefully to the global warming alarmists, and the main theme that emerges is that what the developed world needs is a… — Bret Stephens Copy Share Image
Sometimes men and women prefer the darkness to the light because they are attached to their sins. Nevertheless it is only by… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
