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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. It may be hard for us; and among ourselves we may perhaps laugh at the appearance we thus present. But what of that! We no longer have any other mode of self-overcoming available to us: this is our asceticism, our penance.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Sympathy, Wise, Emotional

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• Lent is like a long 'retreat' during which we can turn back into ourselves and listen to the voice of God, in order to defeat the temptations of the Evil One. It is a period of spiritual 'combat' which we must experience alongside Jesus, not with pride and presumption, but using the arms of faith: prayer, listening to the word of God and penance. In this way we will be able to celebrate Easter in truth, ready to renew the promises of our Baptism.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Spiritual, Jesus, Easter

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• Obedience is a penance of reason, and, on that account, a sacrifice more acceptable than all corporal penances and mortifications.

  John of the Cross

  Sacrifice, Reason, Obedience

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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

  Family, Children, School

  H.L. Mencken “A little book in C major”, Рипол Классик

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• 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

  People, Church, Use

  "Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software". Book by Sam Williams, Chapter 8, www.oreilly.com. 2002.

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• He who confesses magic or sorcery shall do penance for the time of murder, and shall be treated in the same manner as he who convicts himself of this sin.

  Saint Basil

  Magic, Sorcery, Murder

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• Holy Communion is the shortest and safest way to heaven.

  Pope Pius X

  Holy Eucharist, Christian Inspirational, Heaven

  "Quotable Saints". Book by Ronda Chervin, p. 79, 2003.

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• I do not know what might be the most fitting description.... I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner. And this is what I said when they asked me if I would accept my election as pontiff: I am a sinner, but I trust in the infinite mercy and patience of our Lord Jesus Christ, and I accept in a spirit of penance.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Literary Genre, Speech

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• 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

  Office, Way, Fields

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.9

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• Christians aren't people who never sin or always do the right thing. We're people who live in continual repentance.

  LeCrae

  Christian, People, Sin

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• To deny one's self, to take up the cross, denotes something immeasurably grander than self-imposed penance or rigid conformity to a Divine statute. It is the surrender of self to an ennobling work, an absolute subordination of personal advantages and of personal pleasures for the sake of truth and the welfare of others, and a willing acceptance of every disability which their interests may entail.

  George C. Lorimer

  Acceptance, Self, May

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 169), 1895.

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• I was raised a Catholic as a boy and went to a Catholic boys' high school, a private school, and kind of drifted away, candidly, in my latter teen years. I consider myself deeply spiritual but not in an institutional, religious kind of a way. In Catholicism, we're surrounded by these images of martyrdom and doing penance and doing some suffering to achieve what you're trying to achieve. And I certainly embedded that in my psyche and I have lived that very effectively.

  James Balog

  Spiritual, Religious, School

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• Penance does not require hair shirts today; our neighbors are hair shirts.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Hair, Doe, Today

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• 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

  Believe, Years, Coward

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3943, Manonmani Publishers

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• Within the Church, sins are forgiven in three ways: by baptism, by prayer, and by the greater humility of penance; yet God does not forgive sins except to the baptized.

  Saint Augustine

  Prayer, Humility, Baptism

  "Treatises on Marriage and Other Subjects".

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• 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

  Prayer, Heart, Rely Upon

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• I don't know what heavy penance could have come to mind that frequently I would not have gladly undertaken rather than recollect myself in the practice of prayer.

  Teresa of Avila

  Prayer, Practice, Heavy

  "The Collected Works of St. Teresa of Avila: Volume 1".

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• The examination of conscience has an important educational value. it teaches us to look sincerely at our own lives, to compare them with the truth of the Gospel and to evaluate them with parameters that are not only human but drawn from divine Revelation. Comparison with the Commandments, with the Beatitudes, and above all with the Precept to love, represents the first great 'school of penance

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Educational, School, Important

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• 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

  Christian, Dog, Heart

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• Many do not advance in Christian progress because they stick in penances and particular exercises, while they neglect the love of God, which is the end.

  Brother Lawrence

  Christian, Exercise, Progress

  Brother Lawrence (2012). “The Practice of the Presence of God and The Spiritual Maxims”, p.12, Courier Corporation

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• Sometimes men and women prefer the darkness to the light because they are attached to their sins. Nevertheless it is only by opening oneself to the light and only by sincerely confessing one's sins to God that one finds true peace and true joy. It is therefore important to receive the Sacrament of Penance regularly, especially during Lent, in order to receive the Lord's forgiveness and to intensify our process of conversion.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Men, Light, Order

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• 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

  Men, Special, World

  Robert Penn Warren (2006). “All the King's Men”, p.500, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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

  Work, Fall, Men

  Michel Foucault (2013). “Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason”, p.55, Vintage

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• 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

  Church, Care, Flesh

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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.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Heart, Things In Life, Drunk

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “Collected Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.475, e-artnow

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