Conditions Quote by Thomas Aquinas

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

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 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

“Perfect contrition effects the immediate justification of the sinner without the Sacrament of Penance, as we shall show presently. 12 How can this extra-sacramental”

— Joseph Pohle

“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

“I. Penance is a true Sacrament, instituted by Christ for the forgiveness of post-baptismal sins. II. Penance is a Sacrament distinct from Baptism. 24…

— Joseph Pohle

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

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

“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