The faithful of to-day should try by a more ardent…

“Tattooists are the new priests for the fucked-up and the thrown away. They speak the language of symbol, and administer penance in tiny metallic…

— Skyler White

Listen carefully to the global warming alarmists, and the main theme that emerges is that what the developed world needs is a large dose…

— Bret Stephens

“This worldly life is very difficult. Mother-in-law comes, mother of the mother-in-law comes, sister of mother-in-law comes, aunt of mother-in-law comes. How many mother-in-laws…

— Dada Bhagwan

I will no longer wound myself with the thoughts and questions that have surrounded me like thorns: that is a penance You do not…

— Thomas Merton

“There's a price for absolution on this planet, and it's called penance.”

— Spider Robinson

“Three cheeses isn’t a choice, it’s a penance.”

— Terry Pratchett

When it was over, she gathered him in her arms. And told him the terrible irony of her life. That she had wanted to…

— Melina Marchetta

“Only the Vitraags (the enlightened ones) can take a beating from the weak, no one else can.”

— Dada Bhagwan

“I hope I am not for the killing, Anselmo was thinking. I think that after the war there will have to be some great…

— Ernest Hemingway

To deny one's self, to take up the cross, denotes something immeasurably grander than self-imposed penance or rigid conformity to a Divine statute. It…

— George C. Lorimer

When white men were willing to put their own offspring in the kitchen and corn field and allowed them to be sold into bondage…

— Rebecca Latimer Felton

Chaos is the penance for leisure.

— Amy Tan

Since the Fall, man had accepted labor as a penance and for its power to work redemption. It was not a law of nature…

— Michel Foucault

“Misery is vitamin for the Soul (The Real-Self), and happiness is vitamin for the body (The Non-Self).”

— Dada Bhagwan

“The hermit said, ‘This is the way to be strong: when temptations start to speak in your mind do not answer them but get…

— Benedicta Ward