Audience Quote by Bret Stephens

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

Everyone has a need to do penance. It's a basic need, like washing. It's about harmony, an absolutely essential inner balance. It's the balance…

— Jo Nesbo

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

“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

“Often what keeps us stuck and continually doing penance is the very feeling that we must pay for lack of action. We become caught…

— Noelle Sterne

“Penance should be but the means to increase virtue according to the needs of the individual, and according to what the soul sees she…

— Catherine of Siena

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

“On the divine model, sin is a bad decision in the eyes of God. Penance is the expiation of sin through suffering in the…

— Gideon Lewis-Kraus

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

Oh, what peril attaches to sin willfully committed! For it is so difficult for man to bring himself to penance, and without penitence guilt…

— Catherine of Genoa

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

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