Penance

Mother Teresa Missionary, Nun

"The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give. But the less you have the more free you are. Poverty for us is a freedom. It is not mortification, a penance. It is joyful freedom. There is no television here, no this, no that. But we are perfectly happy."

Baba Hari Dass Spiritual Teacher, Author

"Tapas is not a penance, it's a mental training to develop will power"

Mother Teresa Missionary, Nun

"We have very little, so we have nothing to be preoccupied with. The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give. But the less you have, the more free you are."

Teresa of Avila Saint, Mystic, Writer

"I don't know what heavy penance could have come to mind that frequently I would not have gladly undertaken rather than recollect myself in the practice of prayer."