Top 100 Quotes About Penance
#1. Maintaining equanimity in misery is called penance (tapa).
Dada Bhagwan
#2. The Raven's house is built with reeds, - Sing woe, and alas is me! And the Raven's couch is spread with weeds, High on the hollow tree; And the Raven himself, telling his beads In penance for his past misdeeds, Upon the top I see.
Thomas D
#3. Sunday school: A prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
H.L. Mencken
#4. People sometimes ask me if it is a sin in the Church of Emacs to use vi. Using a free version of vi is not a sin; it is a penance. So happy hacking.
Richard Stallman
#6. When it was over, she gathered him in her arms. And told him the terrible irony of her life.
That she had wanted to be dead all those years while her brother had been alive. That had been her sin.
And this was her penance.
Wanting to live when everyone else seemed dead.
Melina Marchetta
#7. There were times that Nathan felt the world would be better off if he were dead. It seemed to him that it would be penance for his sins.
Belinda G. Buchanan
#8. Marriage is a state of penance. It calls for prayer, fasting, alms-deeds, renunciation, and the intention to increase the Kingdom of God.
Anne Catherine Emmerich
#9. The vast world rainless, one may bid adieu
To charity and penance.
Thiruvalluvar
#10. Excellent,' said one of the Sanzas. "Soon he'll be fat, and we can butcher him like all the others for a Penance Day roast."
"What my brother means to say," said the other twin, "is that all the others died of purely natural causes, and you have nothing to fear from us. Now have some more bread.
Scott Lynch
#11. But now seeing that great knowledge, while good, had not saved the world, he turned in penance to the Lord, crying.
Walter Miller
#12. Chaos is the penance for leisure.
Amy Tan
#13. Oh, what peril attaches to sin willfully committed! For it is so difficult for man to bring himself to penance, and without penitence guilt remains and will ever remain, so long as man retains unchanged the will to sin, or is intent upon committing it.
Catherine Of Genoa
#14. The Colors, The Iliad, Ulysses, Metamorphosis, the Theban plays, The Draconic Labels, Anabasis, and restricted works like The Count of Monte Cristo, Lord of the Flies, Lady Casterly's Penance, 1984, and The Great Gatsby. I
Pierce Brown
#15. Told often enough that they are the source of sin, women may well begin feeling guilty as they accept the necessity for penance. Taught effectively enough that they are irrelevant to the important processes of society, women begin to feel they are living invisibly.
Sandra M. Gilbert Susan Gubar
#16. Supposed to be commissioned by the Church, the pardoners would sell absolution for any sin from gluttony to homicide, cancel any vow of chastity or fasting, remit any penance for money, most of which they pocketed.
Barbara W. Tuchman
#17. The others returned, the room filled again, benches were reclaimed and re-possessed, and another hour of pleasure or of penance was to be set out, another hour of music was to give delight or the gapes,* as real or affected taste for it prevailed.
Jane Austen
#18. Shri Bhagvan said: Acts of sacrifice, charity and penance should not be renounced but must certainly be performed, for these three - sacrifice, charity and penance - purify even the great souls.
J.S. Mishra
#19. For your penance, say two Hail Marys, three our Fathers, and," he added, with a chuckle, "say a special prayer for the Dodgers.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
#20. The hermit said, 'This is the way to be strong: when temptations start to speak in your mind do not answer them but get up, pray, do penance, and say "Son of God, have mercy upon me."
Benedicta Ward
#21. As Christians, our duty is to pray for them and ask the Lord to give them the grace of penance, so that they don't die with a corrupt heart, because otherwise the dogs of hell will take their blood.
Pope Francis
#22. No penance serves to renew them, no massive transfusions of trust. Why not even revenge can undo them, so twisted these vows and so crushed.
Leonard Cohen
#23. He stood and he only had one leg. The other was like a chunk of burnt pine-log he was carrying along as a penance for some obscure sin.
Ray Bradbury
#24. Throughout my life, I sought power and profit for myself, for my rate. Now, at long last, I think I understand the meaning of a crime against the Mantle. After this, no need to seek balance. I will await my penance here.
Greg Bear
#25. Shunning all offers of help, all offers of the more practical ... This was his task, he said, and it would be carried out alone. Penance, my brother reminded me, was a lonely place to be.
Sarah Winman
#26. And Death, in his shame,
built a kingdom from dust
as penance, as proof,
that his fingers were made
for more than destruction.
Emily Palermo
#27. The best penance is to have patience with the sorrows God permits. A very good penance is to dedicate oneself to fulfill the duties of everyday with exactitude and to study and work with all our strength.
Peter Damian
#28. 'Dirty Jobs' is a fun, simple little show with huge themes under it. For me, it's penance, it's redemption, it's a sweaty mess.
Mike Rowe
#29. She'd only gotten what she deserved.
No penance could wash away her sins.
Not really.
Denise Hunter
#30. There are three ways in which sins are forgiven: in baptism, in prayer, and in the greater humility of penance; yet God does not forgive sins except to the baptized
Saint Augustine
#31. Any obedience that isn't motivated by his great love is nothing more than penance.
Elyse M. Fitzpatrick
#32. Individuals in private life, meanwhile, had quite forgiven Hester Prynne for her frailty; nay, more, they had begun to look upon the scarlet letter as the token, not of that one sin for which she had borne so long and dreary a penance, but of her many good deeds since.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#33. The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give. But the less you have the more free you are. Poverty for us is a freedom. It is not mortification, a penance. It is joyful freedom. There is no television here, no this, no that. But we are perfectly happy.
Mother Teresa
#34. Nature has made a mistake in the choice of my sexuality and I must do a life-long penance for it, for the moral power to suffer the unavoidable with dignity is lost.
Richard Von Krafft-Ebing
#35. Since the Fall, man had accepted labor as a penance and for its power to work redemption. It was not a law of nature which forced man to work, but the effect of a curse.
Michel Foucault
#36. I had grown accustomed to life being interesting and adventure ridden and, rather childishly, I refused to believe that this must necessarily come to an end and that the rest of my life should be a sort of penance for all the reckless, irresponsible, and immensely fun things I'd done before.
J. Maarten Troost
#37. And the only thing to do with a sin is to confess, do penance and then, after some kind of decent interval, ask for forgiveness.
Joseph J. Ellis
#38. True penance consists in regretting without ceasing the faults of the past, and in firmly resolving to never again commit that which is so deplorable.
Bernard Of Clairvaux
#39. Once, when I was grumbling over being obliged to eat meat and do no penance, I heard it said that sometimes there was more of self-love than desire of penance in such sorrow. St. Teresa
Aldous Huxley
#40. God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.
Teresa Of Avila
#41. Start the practice of self-control with some penance; begin with fasting.
Mahavira
#42. All of us live with our own demons, do penance in our private ways. We need our friends for support and advice, but we draw our strength from within.
Paul Levine
#43. To properly do penance one must express contrition for one's sins and perform acts to repair the damage caused by those transgressions. It is only when those acts are complete that the slate can truly be wiped clean and amnesty gives way to a new beginning.
Emily Thorne
#44. I write as a mode of penance for the arrogance inherent in my despair.
Charles McLeod
#45. Three conditions are necessary for Penance: contrition, which is sorrow for sin, together with a purpose of amendment; confession of sins without any omission; and satisfaction by means of good works.
Thomas Aquinas
#46. I've always felt like an alien trapped in a human form. We all do at some time or other; for me it's a permanent state, and I'm still unsure if Earth is a penance or a reward.
Douglas Coupland
#47. I cannot imagine a sentence more severe than a person limited not by his or her own abilities but by the opinions and expectations of others. And having been made to organize in such a way, comes the remuneration, but no penance or escape.
Noorilhuda
#48. If you have the courage to imitate Mary Magdalene in her sins, have the courage to imitate her penance!
Pio Of Pietrelcina
#49. Penance is a sacrifice, a voluntary punishment to show remorse for a sin. The more grievous the sin, the greater the self-inflicted suffering. For some, the ultimate penance is death. But for others, it simply a means to an end.
Emily Thorne
#50. It is penance to work, to give oneself to others, to endure the pinpricks of community living.
Dorothy Day
#51. Five years with the dowager - Good God, she ought to be given a title in her own right as a penance for such as that. No one had done more for England.
Julia Quinn
#52. Today a celebrity sex video isn't a stigma that requires penance and smarm removal; it's a branding device, a platform enhancer, a show reel.
James Wolcott
#53. Everyone has a need to do penance. It's a basic need, like washing. It's about harmony, an absolutely essential inner balance. It's the balance we call morality.
Jo Nesbo
#54. For sin bust be punished either by the penitent sinner or by God, his judge; and God, who has promised pardon to the penitent sinner, has nowhere promised to one who delays his conversion a morrow to do penance in.
Augustine Of Hippo
#55. Why the hell don't people understand there are some things you don't talk about? You keep it to yourself so you hurt fewer people. You're supposed to pay with guilt. Guilt is penance.
Erika Swyler
#56. now, I am doing penance for my selfishness. Who knew I'd see the world through the drain of an old sink and across the surface of a wooden chopping board? But here it is, and here I am. In my zeal to be a part of a grand adventure, I traded my mother's kitchen for this one." Sister
Adriana Trigiani
#57. The Sirens flicked their wings at the wall, inscribing it with their own blue ink: Even in penance is beauty; blessed are all the ocean's drowned!
Catherynne M Valente
#58. Our five sense are dulled by inordinate pleasure. Penance makes them keen, gives them back their natural vitality, and more. Penance clears the eye of conscience and of reason.
Thomas Merton
#59. If there is any justice in this world, to be a White Sox fan frees a man from any other form of penance.
Bill Veeck
#60. It was penance, my own slow dance in purgatory.
Amy Harmon
#61. The blood that ran down from the cross in redemption for all sins and penance for all sorrows - that was the visible sign.
Sigrid Undset
#62. To remove untouchability is a penance that caste Hindus owe to Hinduism and to themselves.
Mahatma Gandhi
#63. Philosophy calls for simple living, not for doing penance, and the simple way of life need not be a crude one.
Seneca.
#64. My only crime was being a man and living in the world of men, and you don't have to do special penance for that. The crime and the penance, in that case, coincide perfectly. They are identical.
Robert Penn Warren
#65. I have traveled a good deal in Concord; and everywhere, in shops, and offices, and fields, the inhabitants have appeared to me to be doing penance in a thousand remarkable ways.
Henry David Thoreau
#66. Christ commands you to take up His cross and follow Him, not that He may humble you, or lay some penance upon you, but that you may surrender the low self-will and the feeble pride of your sin, and ascend into the sublime patience of heavenly charity.
Horace Bushnell
#67. I am inclined to believe that one who is a coward will be born after death as an insect or a worm, that there is no salvation for a coward even after millions of years of penance.
Swami Vivekananda
#68. But for her there was no possibility of a clear conscience, merely the weak absolution of honesty, of confession.
She could not buy into the cycle of sin and penance. She would always remember what she had done, and it would always sting. She would not be washed clean.
Sonja Yoerg
#69. I feel as though my penance for the day is being done and that maybe God will be pleased enough to lend me some help, which I think is why He has been showing me interesting clouds for the past week.
Matthew Quick
#70. No penance can your hard heart find save such as you long since have taught me to endure
Murasaki Shikibu
#71. Tattooists are the new priests for the fucked-up and the thrown away. They speak the language of symbol, and administer penance in tiny metallic lashes.
Skyler White
#72. No penance is greater than the one done for maintaining peace, no happiness is better than the one received from satisfaction, no disease is more damaging than greed and no Dharma is better than the one having compassion for all.
B.K. Chaturvedi
#73. Let it be known that this is the true Church, in which there is confession and penance and which takes a health-promoting care of the sins and wounds to which the weak flesh is subject.
Lactantius
#74. It would be one kind of penance. And there are never enough kinds. Not for him. Not for me. And certainly not for you, my friend.
John D. MacDonald
#75. We must suffer. Our five sense are dulled by inordinate pleasure. Penance makes them keen, gives them back their natural vitality, and more. Penance clears the eye of conscience and of reason. It helps think clearly, judge sanely. It strengthens the action of our will.
Thomas Merton
#76. His physical attitude suggested a holy man doing penance vicariously for the sin of those in his spiritual care.
Anthony Powell
#77. Teresina went often to confession. She was the despair of Father Ramon. Indeed he had seen that while her knees, her hands, and her lips did penance for an old sin, her modest and provocative eyes, flashing under drawn lashes, laid the foundation for a new one. During
John Steinbeck
#78. In the life of the body a man is sometimes sick, and unless he takes medicine, he will die. Even so in the spiritual life a man is sick on account of sin. For that reason he needs medicine so that he may be restored to health; and this grace is bestowed in the Sacrament of Penance.
Thomas Aquinas
#79. The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but does not penetrate to the bones, that is, which causes suffering but not sickness.
Saint Ignatius
#80. It is intolerable for a human being to go on doing any task as a penance, under duress.
Christopher Morley
#81. To do penance is to bewail the evil we have done, and to do no evil to bewail.
Pope Gregory I
#82. Tapas is not a penance, it's a mental training to develop will power
Baba Hari Dass
#83. We're still dealing with the consequences of our actions. The people you drag down with you never go away. You have to pay a penance for your sins.
Angie McKeon
#84. I will no longer wound myself with the thoughts and questions that have surrounded me like thorns: that is a penance You do not ask of me.
Thomas Merton
#85. Penance?" Marcus asked. "No penance." Ballard gave him a sad and knowing smile. "Something tells me that loving your Eleanor will be penance enough.
Tiffany Reisz
#86. One cardinal rule of American journalism is that The New York Times Sunday Magazine is a chore, a bore, and a penance to be endured.
Martin Nolan
#87. I don't know what heavy penance I would not have gladly undertaken rather than practice prayer.
Saint Teresa Of Avila
#88. I always root for the black man, like penance for something I had not part in creating.
J.M. August
#89. But when you continue clinging to your feelings of guilt, this God-given mission becomes nothing more than self-imposed penance.
Karen Witemeyer
#90. All of us have failed. One wishes to be punished. One is willing to assume all kinds of penance, but do you know, my daughter, that in love
I scarcely dare say it
but in love our very mistakes don't seem to be able to last long?
Thornton Wilder
#91. The gods frowned upon wastrels. Roland had been raised, first by his father and then by Cort, his greatest teacher, to believe this, and so he still believed. Those gods might not punish at once, but sooner or later the penance would be paid. And the longer the wait, the greater the weight.
Stephen King
#92. I grew up Catholic. We went to confession on Saturday, stood in the shortest line, since it led to the priest who gave the easiest penance - usually a few Our Fathers and Hail Marys. We confessed in private, prayed our penance and our souls were clean.
Regina Brett
#93. Goodwill to Spazzy up in gerbil heaven. Sorry sorry sorry. I stopped eating meat the day of the massacre, as penance for Spazzy. I've been a vegetarian since age six, all for the love of a gerbil.
Rachel Cohn
#94. The combination of presence and anonymity - confession without penance, truth without consequences - it has its attractions. Getting the blood off your hands, one way or another.
Margaret Atwood
#95. My austerities, fasting and prayers are, I know, of no value if I rely upon them for reforming me. My penance is the prayer of a bleeding heart for forgiveness for sins unwittingly committed.
Mahatma Gandhi
#96. I may not believe in sin," he said, "but I do feel guilt. We Shadowhunters live by a code, and that code isn't flexible. Honor, fault, penance, those are real to us, and they have nothing to do with religion and everything to do with who we are. This is who I am, Clary," he said desperately.
Cassandra Clare
#97. There is no virtue in penance and fasting which waste the body; they are only fanatical and monkish.
Immanuel Kant
#98. Obedience is a penance of reason, and, on that account, a sacrifice more acceptable than all corporal penances and mortifications.
John Of The Cross
#99. Because what good's confession without penance - right,
Wally Lamb
#100. Abbesses then for several centuries were recognized as the ordinary ministers of penance for their own monastic community and sometimes even exercised that power outside that circle. This was one of the most important liturgical functions
Gary Macy
