It's a beautiful religion and I wish I understood it more. No, I don't want to understand it all. It's beautiful because… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“Anesthesia was discovered. Do you know what it means to relieve man of his pain and suffering? Anesthesia is the most humane… — Joseph Lewis Copy Share Image
True penance consists in regretting without ceasing the faults of the past, and in firmly resolving to never again commit that which… — Bernard of Clairvaux Copy Share Image
Everything is possible for the believer. I have watched impure souls mad for physical love but turning what they know of such… — John Climacus Copy Share Image
Now are the days, of humblest prayer, When consciences to God lie bare, And mercy most delights to spare. Oh hearken when… — Frederick William Faber Copy Share Image
Start the practice of self-control with some penance; begin with fasting. — Mahavira Copy Share Image
“In all outward aspects he remained patient and mild now, not caring even to speak against heretics; he knew that he was… — Ackroyd Peter Copy Share Image
“People have seen the ‘theory of doership’, but they have not seen the ‘theory of karma’. ‘This man insulted me’, is a… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
People sometimes ask me if it is a sin in the Church of Emacs to use vi. Using a free version of… — Richard Stallman 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
Getting to know ourselves and learning to control ourselves are the two great tasks of life. Don't make up strange and exotic… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
One cardinal rule of American journalism is that The New York Times Sunday Magazine is a chore, a bore, and a penance… — Martin Nolan Copy Share Image
There is no virtue in penance and fasting which waste the body; they are only fanatical and monkish. — Immanuel Kant 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
“We believe that this is ‘our’ home and ‘our’ family. No, it is a ‘shop’ for us to settle our karmas. It… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
We can think of Lent as a time to eradicate evil or cultivate virtue, a time to pull up weeds or to… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
To do penance is to bewail the evil we have done, and to do no evil to bewail. — Pope Gregory I Copy Share Image
“An inexhaustible capacity to engage in sin is what makes human beings capable of living a virtuous life. To err is human;… — Kilroy J. Oldster 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 do not know what might be the most fitting description.... I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It… — Pope Francis 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
“Why don't you just do it, then?" Racath hissed. "Just kill me. I dare you." Now, I assume you know what this… — S.G. Night 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
