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A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | H L Mencken |

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.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Friedrich Nietzsche |

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.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Barbara Hall |