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
Tapas is not a penance, it's a mental training to develop will power — Baba Hari Dass 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
“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
“She'd only gotten what she deserved. No penance could wash away her sins. Not really.” — Denise Hunter 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
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
The best penance is to have patience with the sorrows God permits. A very good penance is to dedicate oneself to fulfill… — Peter Damian 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
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
“Lord is an abode of endless bliss. If you like happiness & you do not like misery, then worship the Lord. And… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“There were times that Nathan felt the world would be better off if he were dead. It seemed to him that it… — Belinda G. Buchanan 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
“If there are vishayas (objects of sense pleasure) in the mind, they are all vishayas of the pudgal (Complex of intake and… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Repentance grows as faith grows. Do not make any mistake about it; repentance is not a thing of days and weeks, a… — Anonymous 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
Penance is the willingness to undergo hardships for the achievement of a good purpose. I was willing. But when hardships came I… — Peace Pilgrim 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
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
“—With the sole exception of Penance, which demands certain supernatural acts (faith, contrition, etc.) either as quasi-matter, or at least as a… — Joseph Pohle Copy Share Image
“When a Catholic priest from across the street insulted one of our members, you demanded he apologize. When he did, you accepted,… — Mitch Albom 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
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
I don't know what heavy penance I would not have gladly undertaken rather than practice prayer. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To remove untouchability is a penance that caste Hindus owe to Hinduism and to themselves. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Living well has something to do with the spirituality of wholeheartedness, of seeing life more as a grace than as a penance,… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
“The hermit said, ‘This is the way to be strong: when temptations start to speak in your mind do not answer them… — Benedicta Ward Copy Share Image
Christ commands you to take up His cross and follow Him, not that He may humble you, or lay some penance upon… — Horace Bushnell 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
“Penance should be but the means to increase virtue according to the needs of the individual, and according to what the soul… — Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
“Marriage is a state of penance. It calls for prayer, fasting, alms-deeds, renunciation, and the intention to increase the Kingdom of God.” — Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich Copy Share Image
The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but does not penetrate… — Anonymous 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
“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
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
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
