Balance Quote by Jo Nesbo

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

— Pope Gregory I

“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

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

Penance to be sure must be used as a tool, in due times and places, as need may be. If the flesh, being too…

— St. Catherine of Siena

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

“To properly do penance one must express contrition for one’s sins and perform acts to repair the damage caused by those transgressions. It is…

— Emily Thorne

Morality, like physical cleanliness, is not acquired once and for all: it can only be kept and renewed by a habit of constant watchfulness…

— Victoria Ocampo

“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

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

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Listen carefully to the global warming alarmists, and the main theme that emerges is that what the developed world needs is a large dose…

— Bret Stephens

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

Three conditions are necessary for Penance: contrition, which is sorrow for sin, together with a purpose of amendment; confession of sins without any omission;…

— Thomas Aquinas