Penance Quotes

61 Penance quotes by 51 unique authors

Penance to be sure must be used as a tool, in due times and places, as need may be. If the flesh, being too strong,… — St. Catherine of Siena
Everything is possible for the believer. I have watched impure souls mad for physical love but turning what they know of such love into a… — John Climacus
The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but does not penetrate to the bones,… — Ignatius Loyola
And the only thing to do with a sin is to confess, do penance and then, after some kind of decent interval, ask for forgiveness. — Joseph J. Ellis
No penance serves to renew them, no massive transfusions of trust. Why not even revenge can undo them, so twisted these vows and so crushed. — Leonard Cohen
We can think of Lent as a time to eradicate evil or cultivate virtue, a time to pull up weeds or to plant good seeds.… — Fulton J. Sheen
Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not… — Anthony Trollope
Living well has something to do with the spirituality of wholeheartedness, of seeing life more as a grace than as a penance, as time to… — Joan D. Chittister
In the life of the body a man is sometimes sick, and unless he takes medicine, he will die. Even so in the spiritual life… — Thomas Aquinas
He who confesses magic or sorcery shall do penance for the time of murder, and shall be treated in the same manner as he who… — Saint Basil
Sometimes men and women prefer the darkness to the light because they are attached to their sins. Nevertheless it is only by opening oneself to… — Pope Benedict XVI
The man hath penance done, And penance more will do. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents. — H. L. Mencken
People sometimes ask me if it is a sin in the Church of Emacs to use vi. Using a free version of vi is not… — Richard Stallman
Today a celebrity sex video isn't a stigma that requires penance and smarm removal; it's a branding device, a platform enhancer, a show reel. — James Wolcott
Chaos is the penance for leisure. — Amy Tan
It's a beautiful religion and I wish I understood it more. No, I don't want to understand it all. It's beautiful because it's always a… — Betty Smith
I know California isn't a real destination. You can't get there from New Jersey, not simply by following a line drawn on a map. The… — Kate Braverman
When it was over, she gathered him in her arms. And told him the terrible irony of her life. That she had wanted to be… — Melina Marchetta
I avoid that bleak first hour of the working day during which my still sluggish senses and body make every chore a penance. I find… — John Kennedy Toole
Solitude, I reflected, is the one deep necessity of the human spirit to which adequate recognition is never given in our codes. It is looked… — Freya Stark
I will no longer wound myself with the thoughts and questions that have surrounded me like thorns: that is a penance You do not ask… — Thomas Merton
Repentance grows as faith grows. Do not make any mistake about it; repentance is not a thing of days and weeks, a temporary penance to… — Charles Spurgeon
It hurts to look at the clouds, but it also helps, like most things that cause pain. So I need to run, and as my… — Matthew Quick
The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give. But the less you have the more free you are. Poverty for… — Mother Teresa

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