“ REPENTANCE, n. The faithful attendant and follower of Punishment. It is usually manifest in a degree of reformation that is not inconsistent with continuity of sin. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents. ”
- H. L. Mencken- Copy
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“ But penance need not be paid in suffering…It can be paid in forward motion. Correcting the mistake is a positive move, a nurturing move. ”
- Barbara Hall- Copy
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“ God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance. ”
- St. Teresa of Avila- Copy
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“ He who endures penance and hardships for another delights in that person's company. ”
- Malik Muhammad Jayasi- Copy
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“ It is penance to work, to give oneself to others, to endure the pinpricks of community living. ”
- Dorothy Day- Copy
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“ In a few days I'll have lived one score and three days in this vale of tears. On I plod — always bored, often drunk, doing no penance for my faults — rather do I become more tolerant of myself from day to day, hardening my crystal heart with blasphemous humor and shunning only toothpicks, pathos, and poverty as being the three unforgivable things in life. ”
- Francis Scott Fitzgerald- Copy
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“ We find nothing easier than being wise, patient, superior. We drip with the oil of forbearance and sympathy, we are absurdly just, we forgive everything. For that very reason we ought to discipline ourselves a little; for that very reason we ought to cultivate a little emotion, a little emotional vice, from time to time… ”
- Friedrich Nietzsche- Copy
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