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But we pay particular attention to the spiritual dimension [of penance].

Igor Kovalevsky
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But penance need not be paid in suffering...It can be paid in forward motion. Correcting the mistake is a positive move, a nurturing move.

Barbara Hall
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At this point he is anxious to find a place where he can devote the rest of his life to penance, prayer and some peace.

Dan Monnat
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My playing sometimes got in the way of my filling the wood box. I was sometimes taken out of bed to do penance for such derelictions.

John Coolidge
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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
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I have been doing penance for that ever since.

Christopher Peterson
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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
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For those who choose to take advantage of the dispensation, they are asked to perform another act of penance in lieu of abstaining from meat.

Sean Dolan
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