Amnesty Quote by Emily Thorne

“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

To do penance is to bewail the evil we have done, and to do no evil to bewail.

— Pope Gregory I

“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

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

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

True penance consists in regretting without ceasing the faults of the past, and in firmly resolving to never again commit that which is so…

— Bernard of Clairvaux

“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

The man hath penance done, And penance more will do.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Because what good’s confession without penance—right,”

— Wally Lamb

“We're still dealing with the consequences of our actions. The people you drag down with you never go away. You have to pay a…

— Angie McKeon

“An inexhaustible capacity to engage in sin is what makes human beings capable of living a virtuous life. To err is human; to seek…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

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