Penance Quotes


You may practice chanting, penance and austere self-discipline within your mind, but without the Name, life is useless. - Sri Guru Granth Sahib


You can almost create a formula for it. The greater the denial at the front end, the longer the term of penance to get free on the back side. - James Cox


Without the True Guru, understanding is not obtained. Meditation, penance and austere self-discipline are found by surrendering to the True Guru's Will. - Sri Guru Granth Sahib


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


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


The stakeout [is] the lowest form of journalism and a boring penance for journalistic sins. - Martin Tolchin


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. So the best way seems to be to scourge oneself with thin cords which hurt superficially, rather than to use some other means which might produce serious internal injury. - Saint Ignatius Of Loyola


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


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