I don't know what heavy penance I would not have gladly undertaken rather than practice prayer. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Obedience is a penance of reason, and, on that account, a sacrifice more acceptable than all corporal penances and mortifications. — John of the Cross Copy Share Image
“God has never experienced misery. The one, who becomes estranged from God, has misery.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
If you have the courage to imitate Mary Magdalene in her sins, have the courage to imitate her penance! — Pio of Pietrelcina Copy Share Image
To remove untouchability is a penance that caste Hindus owe to Hinduism and to themselves. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Christians aren't people who never sin or always do the right thing. We're people who live in continual repentance. — LeCrae Copy Share Image
“This world is such that it will let one live in whatever way he wants. But his own weakness does not let… — Dada Bhagwan 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
As Christians, our duty is to pray for them and ask the Lord to give them the grace of penance, so that… — Pope Francis 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
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
“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
“What is the meaning of difference of opinions? It is to clash (bump) with a wall. If we hit our head, is… — Dada Bhagwan 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
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
There must be some other possibility than death or lifelong penance, said the Ellen Ward of my dream, that woman I hate… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
Holy Communion is the shortest and safest way to Heaven. There are others: innocence, but that is for little children; penance, but… — Pope Pius X Copy Share Image
“The penance and renunciation that one is told to do is actually under the authority of the non-Self (parsatta). So how can… — 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
“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
Probability is a kind of penance, which God made, suitable, I presume to that state of mediocrity and probationership he has been… — John Locke 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
“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
Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy;… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“—The Fathers teach that God does not forgive sins without the cooperation of the Church. See the Patristic texts quoted infra, Part… — Joseph Pohle 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
“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
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