“She'd only gotten what she deserved. No penance could wash away her sins. Not really.” — Denise Hunter Copy Share Image
“But now seeing that great knowledge, while good, had not saved the world, he turned in penance to the Lord, crying.” — Walter Miller Copy Share Image
“If one can remain in peace during agitation and anxiety; that is a real true of peace.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“If you knew you had no place in the lord’s kingdom, no penance to pay…would you still choose to sin?” — L.J. Scar Copy Share Image
Tapas is not a penance, it's a mental training to develop will power — Baba Hari Dass 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
“Misery is vitamin for the Soul (The Real-Self), and happiness is vitamin for the body (The Non-Self).” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Indian life is not without conflicts, and without indian life, there is no moksha (ultimate liberation). On the extreme limits of these… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Be cautious in this Kaliyug (current time era). Endure the penance that naturally presents itself to you; do not create penance that… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
I have traveled 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
I've always felt like an alien trapped in a human form. We all do at some time or other; for me it's… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“Perfect contrition effects the immediate justification of the sinner without the Sacrament of Penance, as we shall show presently. 12 How can… — Joseph Pohle 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
Nature has made a mistake in the choice of my sexuality and I must do a life-long penance for it, for the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“For long after guilty memories fade, the urge for penance lingers: strong and blind as the will to drink rain and grope… — Sean Stewart Copy Share Image
I was raised a Catholic as a boy and went to a Catholic boys' high school, a private school, and kind of… — James Balog Copy Share Image
This is me, a sinner on whom the Lord has turned his gaze. And this is what I said when they asked… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“Gnan (knowledge) is a light. If you do penance after attaining that light, then you will attain liberation (moksha). And with this… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The examination of conscience has an important educational value. it teaches us to look sincerely at our own lives, to compare them… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“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
“The path of moksha (ultimate liberation) has to be understood. This study of the self, doing penance, doing chanting is being done… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Rather than providing him with economic opportunity, the Act of that name seems designed to make the poor man do penance all… — Louis O. Kelso 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
“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
“I. Penance is a true Sacrament, instituted by Christ for the forgiveness of post-baptismal sins. II. Penance is a Sacrament distinct from… — Joseph Pohle 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
“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
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
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
“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
“On the divine model, sin is a bad decision in the eyes of God. Penance is the expiation of sin through suffering… — Gideon Lewis-Kraus Copy Share Image
