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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

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

No penance can your hard heart find save such as you long since have taught me to endure — Murasaki Shikibu

Start the practice of self-control with some penance; begin with fasting. — Mahavira

But when you continue clinging to your feelings of guilt, this God-given mission becomes nothing more than self-imposed penance. — Karen Witemeyer

Sunday school: A prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents. — H.L. Mencken

Hildegarde stood, scratched her nose, an act for which she must later say a penance. — Louise Erdrich

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

The vast world rainless, one may bid adieu
To charity and penance. — Thiruvalluvar

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

She'd only gotten what she deserved.
No penance could wash away her sins.
Not really. — Denise Hunter

Golf - a young man's vice and an old man's penance. — Irvin S. Cobb

Chaos is the penance for leisure. — Amy Tan

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

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

It was penance, my own slow dance in purgatory. — Amy Harmon

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

I preach best from a point of penance. — Thomm Quackenbush

To do penance is to bewail the evil we have done, and to do no evil to bewail. — Pope Gregory I

Holy Crap,' Carolli said. 'You shot Jesus. That's gonna take a lot of Hail Marys. — Janet Evanovich

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

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

Tapas is not a penance, it's a mental training to develop will power — Baba Hari Dass

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

If you have the courage to imitate Mary Magdalene in her sins, have the courage to imitate her penance! — Pio Of Pietrelcina

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

To remove untouchability is a penance that caste Hindus owe to Hinduism and to themselves. — Mahatma Gandhi

Philosophy calls for simple living, not for doing penance, and the simple way of life need not be a crude one. — Seneca.

His physical attitude suggested a holy man doing penance vicariously for the sin of those in his spiritual care. — Anthony Powell

It is penance to work, to give oneself to others, to endure the pinpricks of community living. — Dorothy Day

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

'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

Any obedience that isn't motivated by his great love is nothing more than penance. — Elyse M. Fitzpatrick

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

The symbol of the dragon should be always before them, that mankind seek to accomplish, not to think of sin and do penance! — Marion Zimmer Bradley

I don't know what heavy penance I would not have gladly undertaken rather than practice prayer. — Saint Teresa Of Avila

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

Because what good's confession without penance - right, — Wally Lamb

It is intolerable for a human being to go on doing any task as a penance, under duress. — Christopher Morley

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

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

I write as a mode of penance for the arrogance inherent in my despair. — Charles McLeod

Maintaining equanimity in misery is called penance (tapa). — Dada Bhagwan

I always root for the black man, like penance for something I had not part in creating. — J.M. August

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

Obedience is a penance of reason, and, on that account, a sacrifice more acceptable than all corporal penances and mortifications. — John Of The Cross

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

But now seeing that great knowledge, while good, had not saved the world, he turned in penance to the Lord, crying. — Walter Miller

There is no virtue in penance and fasting which waste the body; they are only fanatical and monkish. — Immanuel Kant

Penance does not require hair shirts today; our neighbors are hair shirts. — Fulton J. Sheen

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

God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance. — Teresa Of Avila