But penance need not be paid in suffering...It can be paid in forward motion. From LearnThat.org. [Barbara Hall; from A Summons to New Orleans.]
I'd cut my hands off in penance, but I need them to climb. From Wordnik.com. [the lights go down and it's just you up there, getting them to feel like that] Reference
The beauty of penance is that it makes you feel uncomfortable. From Wordnik.com. [The Story Girl] Reference
And her penance is merciless: she must find a way to lure her former socialite friends into the tofu tenement she has been reduced to. From Wordnik.com. [How Perfect Is That by Sarah Bird: Book summary] Reference
I once suggested that Wehner spend some time emptying bedpans at Walter Reed in penance for his horrific performance in the White House. From Wordnik.com. [More Neo-Nonsense - Swampland - TIME.com] Reference
The Pope's call on Thursday for "penance" - the closest he has yet come to a mea culpa - may mark the start of a more coherent fightback. From Wordnik.com. [Top stories from Times Online] Reference
I think I'll go donate some money to moveon. org in penance. From Wordnik.com. [Television] Reference
I guess your penance is being the designated driver all season long. From Wordnik.com. [Royals Review] Reference
For some reason, the idea of penance seems to have eluded some bishops. From Wordnik.com. [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference
“That is what these Papists call penance, I suppose,” said Mrs. Milman. From Wordnik.com. [Lovers and Friends; or, Modern Attachments] Reference
His penance was a January promotion to chairman of the whole banking group. From Wordnik.com. [Montag's Monday Payday] Reference
Clement of Alexandria in Eusebius' History calls penance 'a baptism of tears.'. From Wordnik.com. [St. Robert Bellarmine] Reference
Hakens are required to attend classes called penance assembly to keep them in line. From Wordnik.com. [Soul of the Fire]
"We see how it is necessary to do penance, that is, to recognize what is mistaken in our life,". From Wordnik.com. [The Wine Dark Sea] Reference
Not that he neglects penance, which is absolutely necessary, but he wishes it to be practised from a motive of love. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference
And here Henry II. performed that penance, which is one of the most striking examples of the Church's power presented by history. From Wordnik.com. [The Cathedral Church of Canterbury [2nd ed.].] Reference
Therefore, in like manner, neither is penance, which is sorrow for past sins, a special virtue, but an emotion resulting from charity. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition] Reference
The artifact created and mailed and then displayed — is it a kind of penance?. From Wordnik.com. [inkblurt · Postcards from the Edge] Reference
Moreover, the shame you experience in telling your sins is a kind of penance for them. From Wordnik.com. [Baltimore Catechism No. 4 (of 4) An Explanation of the Baltimore Catechism of Christian Doctrine] Reference
I think it might have been a perverse kind of penance, a feeling that crept over me, a malaise. From Wordnik.com. [The White Ninja]
Shedding the warmth that he so loved was a kind of penance for the way that he had obtained it. From Wordnik.com. [Dancer's Luck]
The historical "penance" that on the stage seemed so effective was, as we know, really unavailing. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905] Reference
"You think, at first, " she said, distantly, 'that it's a kind of penance you're being forced to pay. From Wordnik.com. [The Zero]
However, it seems that today's Americans must do "penance" for some of their forefathers 'unjust acts. From Wordnik.com. [Freedom Didn't Always End Black Servitude] Reference
Stressing the word "penance" helped to direct their thoughts to that issue and away from the statue itself. From Wordnik.com. [Men Don't Leave Me] Reference
Reply Obj. 3: This was the baptism of "penance," for which children were not suited; wherefore they were not baptized therewith. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition] Reference
I'm convinced that after my dad died two years ago, Beaver took me on as some kind of penance for the sins he committed raising them. From Wordnik.com. [Richard Farrell: Fighting My Own Drug War: An Excerpt From What's Left of Us] Reference
What kind of penance would "correspond," to use the. From Wordnik.com. [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference
I read Lord of the Rings, which to me, had a kind of penance in it. From Wordnik.com. [planet.journals.ie] Reference
I want to do the worst kind of penance -- bell and candle and the rest. From Wordnik.com. [The Reef] Reference
Probably St. Augustine first conceived of the writing of an autobiography as a kind of penance, which might be fruitful also to others. From Wordnik.com. [Figures of Several Centuries] Reference
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