I grew up Catholic. We went to confession on Saturday, stood in the shortest line, since it led to the priest who… — Regina Brett Copy Share Image
“I was raised a Roman Catholic, but it was the kind of domesticated Catholicism that focused mostly on the length of your… — Gina Barreca Copy Share Image
“God has become trapped in as many living beings as there are. Now should you feel contempt (irritated) towards one when God… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“But there are some born to do penance by nature. Maybe they lift the load for some of us who take it… — Ellis Peters Copy Share Image
There are three ways in which sins are forgiven: in baptism, in prayer, and in the greater humility of penance; yet God… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
“Renounce (tyaag) if it is in your prakruti (inherent nature). Do penance (tapa) if it is in your prakruti. Chant (japa) if… — Dada Bhagwan 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
Listen carefully to the global warming alarmists, and the main theme that emerges is that what the developed world needs is a… — Bret Stephens Copy Share Image
Sometimes men and women prefer the darkness to the light because they are attached to their sins. Nevertheless it is only by… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
I have travelled 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
It hurts to look at the clouds, but it also helps, like most things that cause pain. So I need to run,… — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image
One woman approached me as she walked past and, pointing to her four children who were manfully helping the smallest ones over… — Rudolf Hoss Copy Share Image
“My palm connected with the final looking-glass. A wave of brittle fractures rippled outward from the place my sanguine hand had struck.… — S.G. Night Copy Share Image
“Your God would never punish you for being a human being: this life itself is your penance...But it is also more than… — Mirabai Starr Copy Share Image
I had grown accustomed to life being interesting and adventure ridden and, rather childishly, I refused to believe that this must necessarily… — J. Maarten Troost 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
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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
“To properly do penance one must express contrition for one’s sins and perform acts to repair the damage caused by those transgressions.… — Emily Thorne Copy Share Image
Let us read the lives of the saints; let us consider the penances which they performed, and blush to be so effeminate… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
Good Friday, ¦ A time for fasting and penance. We do this in memory, ¦ The memory of sacrifice and suffering, endured… — John Rokas Copy Share Image
“To remain strong in the effect as the Self (Swaparinaam) such that, ‘This is an effect of the non-Self (parparinaam) and it is not My effect;’… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Yes," said Locke."Yes, Master Ibelius. I'm going to put that fucker in the dirt as deeply as any man who's ever been… — Scott Lynch 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
The Catholic community must offer support to those women who may find it difficult to accept a child, above all when they… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“Often what keeps us stuck and continually doing penance is the very feeling that we must pay for lack of action. We… — Noelle Sterne Copy Share Image
“What is this satsang (in Akram) like? Here, there are no such botherations of, 'do this', 'do good', 'do that', 'ask for… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Penance to be sure must be used as a tool, in due times and places, as need may be. If the flesh,… — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
It makes that a virtue which is not a virtue, and that a crime which is not a crime. Religion consists in… — Henry M. Field Copy Share Image
