Penance Quotes
61 Penance quotes by 51 unique authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The man hath penance done, And penance more will do.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
— H. L. Mencken
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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
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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
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Chaos is the penance for leisure.
— Amy Tan
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Penance Quotes
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