Duty Quote by Peter Damian

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

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

The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but does not penetrate to the…

— Anonymous

“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 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

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

I don't know what heavy penance could have come to mind that frequently I would not have gladly undertaken rather than recollect myself in…

— 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;…

— Thomas Aquinas

“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

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

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“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