#niten

But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental language in the most extravagant sense. ↗

— Charles Ives

#better #curious #definiteness #extravagant #hope

If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery. ↗

— Babe Ruth

#cemetery #either #i #penitentiary

If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you. ↗

— William Tecumseh Sherman

#choose #forced #four #house #i

Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement. ↗

— W. Clement Stone

#achievement #definiteness #point #purpose #starting

You have had indeed a fair trial. It is a shocking thing when a judge of your high office is shown to have betrayed the truth and his honor, and I sentence you to the penitentiary. ↗

— Florence E. Allen

#fair #fair trial #had #high #high office

Man approaches God most nearly when he is in one sense least like God. For what can be more unlike than fullness and need, sovereignty and humility, righteousness and penitence, limitless power and a cry for help? ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#humility #penitence #righteousness #sovereignty #love

O, sir,' murmured Sheila, still on her knees, 'please forgive me.' 'Forgive you! 0, la, la, la!' cunningly cried the droll, and strutting like an actor. 'Forgiveness is easy, is it not? O, yes, it is nothing. You are a young woman full of pride. O. yes! - but that is nothing. And full of penitence, and that is nothing, too. Pride is nothing, penitence nothing, forgiveness nothing, but even a bargain in farthings must be paid to be made, and I am a plain business man. What costs nothing brings no balm, and you would not like that, you would not like that, now would you?' (“The Bogey Man”) ↗

— A.E. Coppard

#fairy #fay #forgiveness #imp #leprechaun

It's almost like a lot of black people in America, a lot of young black men, are born with this cloud over their heads. It's their penitentiary cloud, this philosophy we all have, that it's harder for us. ↗

— Erykah Badu

#america #black #born #cloud #harder

A dying man asked a dying man for eternal life; a man without possessions asked a poor man for a Kingdom; a thief at the door of death asked to die like a thief and steal Paradise. One would have thought a saint would have been the first soul purchased over the counter of Calvary by the red coins of Redemption, but in the Divine plan it was a thief who was the escort of the King of kings into Paradise. If Our Lord had come merely as a teacher, the thief would never have asked for forgiveness. But since the thief's request touched the reason of His coming to earth, namely, to save souls, the thief heard the immediate answer: 'I promise thee, this day thou shalt be With Me in Paradise' (Luke 23:43) It was the thief's last prayer, perhaps even his first. He knocked once, sought once, asked once, dared everything, and found everything. When even the disciples were doubting and only one was present at the Cross, the thief owned and acknowledged Him as Saviour. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#christ #forgiveness #heaven #jesus #paradise

But we did conclude that Ray had actually killed Dr. King pursuant to his theory that he was going to be able to get hold of that money. He had learned of this offer through his ties in the Missouri State Penitentiary. ↗

— Louis Stokes

#actually #conclude #did #dr #get