Heavy Quote by Anonymous

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…

— Teresa of Avila

The best penance is to have patience with the sorrows God permits. A very good penance is to dedicate oneself to fulfill the duties…

— Peter Damian

Penance to be sure must be used as a tool, in due times and places, as need may be. If the flesh, being too…

— St. Catherine of Siena

Penance is the willingness to undergo hardships for the achievement of a good purpose. I was willing. But when hardships came I found myself…

— Peace Pilgrim

To do penance is to bewail the evil we have done, and to do no evil to bewail.

— Pope Gregory I

The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but does not penetrate to the…

— Anonymous

The man hath penance done, And penance more will do.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Penance is a sacrifice, a voluntary punishment to show remorse for a sin. The more grievous the sin, the greater the self-inflicted suffering. For…

— Emily Thorne

Not to employ prayer with my patients was the equivalent of deliberately withholding a potent drug or surgical procedure.

— Larry Dossey

As Christians, our duty is to pray for them and ask the Lord to give them the grace of penance, so that they don't…

— Pope Francis

“For long after guilty memories fade, the urge for penance lingers: strong and blind as the will to drink rain and grope for sunlight.”

— Sean Stewart

Three conditions are necessary for Penance: contrition, which is sorrow for sin, together with a purpose of amendment; confession of sins without any omission;…

— Thomas Aquinas