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- Three conditions are necessary for Penance: contrition, which is sorrow for sin, together with a purpose of amendment; confession of sins without… — Thomas Aquinas
- 'The want of proper examination, true contrition, and a firm purpose of amendment, is the cause of bad confessions, and of the… — Benedict Joseph Labre
- To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked. — Vittorio Alfieri
- Even if you are on the brink of damnation, even if you have one foot in hell, even if you have sold… — Louis de Montfort
- I divested myself of despair and fear when I came here. Now there is no more catching one's own eye in the… — Jane Kenyon
- Only as we bow in contrition, confession, and repentance at the foot of the cross, can we find forgiveness. There is the… — Billy Graham
- I shall never send for a priest or recite an Act of Contrition in my last moments. I do not mind if… — Mary McCarthy
- The social disease of political correctness has entered daily life, inverting good to bad and attempting to rewrite proud histories as an… — Robert Agostinelli
- A Bayonet's contrition is nothing to the dead. — Emily Dickinson
- Evil is retributive: every trespass slips fetters on the will, holds the soul in durance till contrition and repentance restore it to… — Amos Bronson Alcott
- There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten… — Washington Irving
- Men are born to sin…What does matter most, is not that we err, it is that we do benefit from our mistakes,… — Sharon Kay Penman