To do penance is to bewail the evil we have done, and to do no evil to bewail. — Pope Gregory I Copy Share Image
“There's a price for absolution on this planet, and it's called penance.” — Spider Robinson Copy Share Image
“Whatever consolation you accept, that much penance will be deficient.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
To remove untouchability is a penance that caste Hindus owe to Hinduism and to themselves. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I don't know what heavy penance I would not have gladly undertaken rather than practice prayer. — Anonymous 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
“God has never experienced misery. The one, who becomes estranged from God, has misery.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Today a celebrity sex video isn't a stigma that requires penance and smarm removal; it's a branding device, a platform enhancer, a… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
“If his contrition is not perfect, the unworthily received Sacrament of Baptism can re cover its effects only in connection with Penance,… — Joseph Pohle Copy Share Image
Let it be known that this is the true Church, in which there is confession and penance and which takes a health-promoting… — Lactantius Copy Share Image
Oh, what peril attaches to sin willfully committed! For it is so difficult for man to bring himself to penance, and without… — Catherine of Genoa Copy Share Image
“What can be referred to as true internal penance? It is when the heart is actually burning within and One peacefully remains… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
My austerities, fasting and prayers are, I know, of no value if I rely upon them for reforming me. My penance is… — Mahatma Gandhi 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
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
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
No one should judge that he has greater perfection because he performs great penances and gives himself in excess to the staying… — St. Catherine of Siena 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
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 true penance comes when God takes away the soul's health and strength for doing penance. Even though I have mentioned elsewhere… — Teresa of Avila 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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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
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
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
It is penance to work, to give oneself to others, to endure the pinpricks of community living. — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
“I always root for the black man, like penance for something I had not part in creating.” — J.M. August 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
There is no virtue in penance and fasting which waste the body; they are only fanatical and monkish. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Penance love or lust? I never knew this until today but I haveonly been able to understand the difference between hair-do — Mak_786 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 authority and wealth; it stands for self-denial and self-abnegation, for penance and regret, and is absolutely inert in the face of every [in]dignity, every outrage imposed upon…” quote by Emma Goldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/840/emma-goldman-774_abnegation_the-fathers-of-the-church-can-well-affor_1830394.jpg)
