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    penance


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    1. But each morning, when the sun rose in the sky and lit up the Earth, he would feel his father's penance pounding upon his eyes and in his head


    2. and drawn down with her, pay the penance of her poison


    3. 'They have been fined by me and given penance by


    4. second, he had fulfilled the penance imposed upon him at


    5. that he’d served adequate penance and that his feelings of


    6. discovered, and this is your true penance – to condemn


    7. ‘Didn’t he tell you? His penance was to join the


    8. deeds, and the enormous penance I’ve paid – I’m still not


    9. that I’ve served the penance imposed on me,’ he said,


    10. In the modern philosophy, it was frequently represented as generally, or rather as almost always, inconsistent with any degree of happiness in this life; and heaven was to be earned only by penance and mortification, by the austerities and abasement of a monk, not by the liberal, generous, and spirited conduct of a man

    11. would think that Terry had become overwhelmed with an extreme guilt for breaking into my room and shot himself – twice - once in each shoulder - as a penance


    12. penance at this place to obtain Shiva’s grace


    13. There would be another time for penance and this punk on the floor wasn’t qualified to distribute justice


    14. PENANCE IN WATER FOR MANY MILIION YEARS


    15. WHICH I UNDERSTOOD IN 12 YEARS OF MY PENANCE LATER


    16. I NEVER TOLD MY SISTER ABOUT MY 12 YEARS OF PENANCE


    17. PENANCE AND WHERE MY TWELVE YEARS OF PENANCE


    18. YEARS OF AUSTERITY/ PENANCE, 'TAPAS' ONLY WHEN


    19. PENANCE, TAPAS/AUSTERTY STILL ONLY WHEN HIS GURU


    20. THEY BURN YOUR SINS AND DEEDS IN THEIR PENANCE FOR

    21. OF YEARS OF PENANCE AS 1 SINGLE BIRTH MAXIMUM IS 100


    22. NAVNATH YOGENDRA :- THIS PENANCE IS CARRIED OUT AT


    23. “Beyond that is the fact that legally speaking, it doesn’t matter if we have proposed our own penance in asking to be sworn to you, or that we have so sworn, or that Yazadril has allowed it


    24. The Wolf almost wept with anguish at the penance he knew he was doomed to serve in his soul


    25. in the spirit of penance in expiation of my many


    26. Our sorrowing hearts will follow your sublime penance with reverence and love


    27. Sharing a bed with him was no penance


    28. I do what I do for love! It is a joy, not a penance


    29. His penance was life-long guilt


    30. Jesus warned his followers against thinking that their prayers would be rendered more efficacious by ornate repetitions, eloquent phraseology, fasting, penance, or sacrifices

    31. though on some mission of penance


    32. considered moving to Canada to be some kind of penance


    33. to himself as penance,” Bill said after thinking about what


    34. He stripped the silver shop until all that were left were impersonal objects, he gave his clothes away to the orderlies, and he buried his weapons in the courtyard with the same feeling of penance with which his father had buried the spear that had killed Prudencio Aguilar


    35. The fact that the serpent represents evil is complete-ly sensible, as well as the fact that God made it slither on its stomach as penance


    36. Inflamed, not so much because of the damage as because of the disgust and pity that he felt for himself in the emptiness of the saturnalia, he armed himself with an ecclesiastical cat-o-nine-tails that he kept in the bottom of his trunk along with a hair-shirt and other instruments of mortification and penance, and drove the children out of the house, howling like a madman and whipping them without mercy as a person would not even have done to a pack of coyotes


    37. They talk about punishment, penance, rejection and sometimes even about eternal condemnation


    38. Under each particular situation, they lay down a guideline to rescue, so they think, to bring that person back to the straight and narrow, or to give them some penance to pay


    39. I could not give you these great prophecies of Henriette, written with the help of the Hand of God Himself, until you had performed your penance, confessing your sins before God


    40. They can’t heal my suffering but act as penance

    41. It would be his penance


    42. The Church of Rome holds that Confirmation, Penance (or Confession and Absolution), Ordination


    43. ‘This is the famed pilgrimage of Balayogi,’ said Raja Rao as they reached Mummidivaram, ‘the saint who’s said to have been holed up in penance round the year


    44. ‘Are you aware of what Appaiah Dikshitar, the Tamil poet saint said of us Andhras? He felt that to be born an Andhra and to be able to speak Telugu is a boon, which cannot be achieved without much penance


    45. He did penance for this act by by standing in a white sheet in the parish church


    46. “I did penance in the church when I was 100 years old”, Thomas Parr replied, alluding to the child born out of wed-lock episode


    47. got devoted to the spiritual penance


    48. penance, Yagya, donation, service of the guests, studies of the Vedas,


    49. Ashram and other places of penance of the saints


    50. “That entity in which all yagya, penance, canons, abstinence merge is none else but ‘I’ and the





































    1. were given a number of penances to fulfil and told to


    2. But nothing worse came of it, and generally their penances did no harm to themselves or anybody else


    3. THESE MASTERS AS THIS NEEDS VERY SEVERE PENANCES OF


    4. AFTER THOUSAND YEARS OF PENANCES THIS NATH BECOMES


    5. A MUNNII AND AFTER LAKHS OF YEARS OF PENANCES


    6. HIS PENANCES WERE :


    7. I said, I have a lot of repenting to do to the Lord, and this is one of my penances


    8. Some men mortify their senses through penances for


    9. He is the one in whom yagya and penances are at last dissolved


    10. is the enjoyer of the offerings of all yagya and penances

    11. As Krishn has said before, he is the enjoyer of all yagya and penances


    12. "It seems to me," said Sancho, "that the knights who behaved in this way had provocation and cause for those follies and penances; but what cause has your worship for going mad? What lady has rejected you, or what evidence have you found to prove that the lady Dulcinea del Toboso has been trifling with Moor or Christian?"


    13. The fact was that the clouds had that year withheld their moisture from the earth, and in all the villages of the district they were organising processions, rogations, and penances, imploring God to open the hands of his mercy and send the rain; and to this end the people of a village that was hard by were going in procession to a holy hermitage there was on one side of that valley


    14. March's grave face relaxed, in spite of her efforts to keep sober, when she heard him declare that he would atone for his sins by all sorts of penances, and abase himself like a worm before the injured damsel


    15. And if you have any desire to shorten the journey and put yourself easily in the way of salvation, come with me, and I will show you how to become a knight-errant, a calling wherein so many hardships and mishaps are encountered that if they be taken as penances they will lodge you in heaven in a trice


    16. He had distributed heavy penances, no doubt in the way of litanies and fasts; but he argued shrewdly that it would be difficult for them to make their peace with God durably till they had made peace with men


    17. The new birth when lost may be restored through repentance, which is not merely (1) sincere sorrow, but also (2) confession of each individual sin to the priest, and (3) the discharge of penances imposed by the priest for the removal of the temporal punishment, which may have been imposed by God and the Church


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    Synonyms for "penance"

    penance self-abasement self-mortification penitence repentance confession absolution contrition remorse atonement expiation restitution penalty amends

    "penance" definitions

    remorse for your past conduct


    a Catholic sacrament; repentance and confession and atonement and absolution


    voluntary self-punishment in order to atone for some wrongdoing