“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… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
I will no longer wound myself with the thoughts and questions that have surrounded me like thorns: that is a penance You… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“There's a price for absolution on this planet, and it's called penance.” — Spider Robinson Copy Share Image
When it was over, she gathered him in her arms. And told him the terrible irony of her life. That she had… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
“Only the Vitraags (the enlightened ones) can take a beating from the weak, no one else can.” — 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
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
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
Since the Fall, man had accepted labor as a penance and for its power to work redemption. It was not a law… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“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 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
“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
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
“Penance is a sacrifice, a voluntary punishment to show remorse for a sin. The more grievous the sin, the greater the self-inflicted… — Emily Thorne Copy Share Image
We have very little, so we have nothing to be preoccupied with. The more you have, the more you are occupied, the… — Mother Teresa 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
“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
Lent is like a long 'retreat' during which we can turn back into ourselves and listen to the voice of God, in… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Three conditions are necessary for Penance: contrition, which is sorrow for sin, together with a purpose of amendment; confession of sins without… — Thomas Aquinas 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
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 result of external penance and renunciation is worldly life, meaning that one acquires material pleasures and gradually one even attains the… — Dada Bhagwan 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
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
