Penance Quotes

61 quotes by 51 authors

I don't know what heavy penance I would not have gladly undertaken rather than practice prayer. — Teresa of Avila
Three conditions are necessary for Penance: contrition, which is sorrow for sin, together with a purpose of amendment; confession of sins without any omission; and… — Thomas Aquinas
We find nothing easier than being wise, patient, superior. We drip with the oil of forbearance and sympathy, we are absurdly just, we forgive everything.… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The Catholic community must offer support to those women who may find it difficult to accept a child, above all when they are isolated from… — Pope Benedict XVI
He could hardly imagine anymore what his life would be without the weight of his hidden knowledge. He'd come to think of it as a… — Kim Edwards
To do penance is to bewail the evil we have done, and to do no evil to bewail. — Pope Gregory I
There must be some other possibility than death or lifelong penance ... some meeting, some intersection of lines; and some cowardly, hopeful geometer in my… — Wallace Stegner
It makes that a virtue which is not a virtue, and that a crime which is not a crime. Religion consists in a round of… — Henry M. Field
I do not know what might be the most fitting description.... I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a… — Pope Francis
Lent is like a long 'retreat' during which we can turn back into ourselves and listen to the voice of God, in order to defeat… — Pope Benedict XVI
No penance can your hard heart find save such as you long since have taught me to endure — Murasaki Shikibu
Tapas is not a penance, it's a mental training to develop will power — Baba Hari Dass
I am inclined to believe that one who is a coward will be born after death as an insect or a worm, that there is… — Swami Vivekananda
Let it be known that this is the true Church, in which there is confession and penance and which takes a health-promoting care of the… — Lactantius
I had grown accustomed to life being interesting and adventure ridden and, rather childishly, I refused to believe that this must necessarily come to an… — J. Maarten Troost
There are three ways in which sins are forgiven: in baptism, in prayer, and in the greater humility of penance; yet God does not forgive… — Saint Augustine
The Raven's house is built with reeds, â€” Sing woe, and alas is me! And the Raven's couch is spread with weeds, High on the… — Thomas D
True penance consists in regretting without ceasing the faults of the past, and in firmly resolving to never again commit that which is so deplorable. — Bernard of Clairvaux
LOVE is essentially self-communicative: those who do not have it catch it from those who have it.... No amount of rites, rituals, ceremonies, worship, meditation,… — Meher Baba
Nature has made a mistake in the choice of my sexuality and I must do a life-long penance for it, for the moral power to… — Richard von Krafft-Ebing

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