Action Quote by Thomas Merton

“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

The true penance comes when God takes away the soul's health and strength for doing penance. Even though I have mentioned elsewhere the great…

— Teresa of Avila

“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

“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

“On the divine model, sin is a bad decision in the eyes of God. Penance is the expiation of sin through suffering in the…

— Gideon Lewis-Kraus

As to the lawful pleasures of the mind, the heart, or the senses, indulge in them with gratitude and moderation, drawing up sometimes in…

— Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

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

Morality turns on whether the pleasure precedes or follows the pain

— Samuel Butler

We find nothing easier than being wise, patient, superior. We drip with the oil of forbearance and sympathy, we are absurdly just, we forgive…

— Friedrich Nietzsche