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Three conditions are necessary for Penance: contrition, which is sorrow for sin, together with a purpose of amendment; confession of sins without any omission; and satisfaction by means of good works. -- Thomas Aquinas
Penance does not require hair shirts today; our neighbors are hair shirts. -- Fulton J. Sheen
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents. -- H. L. Mencken
And the only thing to do with a sin is to confess, do penance and then, after some kind of decent interval, ask for forgiveness. -- Joseph J. Ellis
He who confesses magic or sorcery shall do penance for the time of murder, and shall be treated in the same manner as he who convicts himself of this sin. -- Saint Basil
People sometimes ask me if it is a sin in the Church of Emacs to use vi. Using a free version of vi is not a sin; it is a penance. So happy hacking. -- Richard Stallman
We must suffer. Our five sense are dulled by inordinate pleasure. Penance makes them keen, gives them back their natural vitality, and more. Penance clears the eye of conscience and of reason. It helps think clearly, judge sanely. It strengthens the action of our will. -- Thomas Merton
The man hath penance done, And penance more will do. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance. -- Teresa of Avila
Golf - a young man's vice and an old man's penance. -- Irvin S. Cobb
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 deplorable. -- Bernard of Clairvaux
The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but does not penetrate to the bones, that is, which causes suffering but not sickness. -- Saint Ignatius
I avoid that bleak first hour of the working day during which my still sluggish senses and body make every chore a penance. I find that in arriving later, the work which I do perform is of a much higher quality. -- John Kennedy Toole
Getting to know ourselves and learning to control ourselves are the two great tasks of life. Don't make up strange and exotic 'penances.' Simply say no to yourself once a day, and you will be on the road to sanctity for the rest of your life. -- Joan D. Chittister
Holy Communion is the shortest and safest way to Heaven. There are others: innocence, but that is for little children; penance, but we are afraid of it; generous endurance of trials of life, but when they come we weep and ask to be. The surest, easiest, shortest way is the Eucharist. -- Pope Pius X
The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give. But the less you have the more free you are. Poverty for us is a freedom. It is not mortification, a penance. It is joyful freedom. There is no television here, no this, no that. But we are perfectly happy. -- Mother Teresa
In the life of the body a man is sometimes sick, and unless he takes medicine, he will die. Even so in the spiritual life a man is sick on account of sin. For that reason he needs medicine so that he may be restored to health; and this grace is bestowed in the Sacrament of Penance. -- Thomas Aquinas
In a few days I'll have lived one score and three days in this vale of tears. On I plod-always bored, often drunk, doing no penance for my faults-rather do I become more tolerant of myself from day to day, hardening my crystal heart with blasphemous humor and shunning only toothpicks, pathos, and poverty as being the three unforgivable things in life. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
To deny one's self, to take up the cross, denotes something immeasurably grander than self-imposed penance or rigid conformity to a Divine statute. It is the surrender of self to an ennobling work, an absolute subordination of personal advantages and of personal pleasures for the sake of truth and the welfare of others, and a willing acceptance of every disability which their interests may entail. -- George C. Lorimer
Rather than providing him with economic opportunity, the Act of that name seems designed to make the poor man do penance all his life for the sin of being born into a non-capital-owning family... One searches it in vain for measure designed to provide economic opportunity to the capital owner. But nobody proposes to educate, train, or rehabilitate either him or his children, even when their "unemployment" is notorious. -- Louis O. Kelso
Start the practice of self-control with some penance; begin with fasting. -- Mahavira
I don't know what heavy penance I would not have gladly undertaken rather than practice prayer. -- Saint Teresa of Avila
Dirty Jobs' is a fun, simple little show with huge themes under it. For me, it's penance, it's redemption, it's a sweaty mess. -- Mike Rowe
Today a celebrity sex video isn't a stigma that requires penance and smarm removal; it's a branding device, a platform enhancer, a show reel. -- James Wolcott
The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but does not penetrate to the bones, that is, which causes suffering but not sickness. -- Saint Ignatius
I've always felt like an alien trapped in a human form. We all do at some time or other; for me it's a permanent state, and I'm still unsure if Earth is a penance or a reward. -- Douglas Coupland
I grew up Catholic. We went to confession on Saturday, stood in the shortest line, since it led to the priest who gave the easiest penance - usually a few Our Fathers and Hail Marys. We confessed in private, prayed our penance and our souls were clean. -- Regina Brett
This is me, a sinner on whom the Lord has turned his gaze. And this is what I said when they asked me if I would accept my election as pontiff. I am a sinner, but I trust in the infinite mercy and patience of our Lord Jesus Christ, and I accept in a spirit of penance. -- Pope Francis
Chaos is the penance for leisure. -- Amy Tan
God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance. -- Teresa of Avila
The vast world rainless, one may bid adieuTo charity and penance. -- Thiruvalluvar
Tapas is not a penance, it's a mental training to develop will power -- Baba Hari Dass
To remove untouchability is a penance that caste Hindus owe to Hinduism and to themselves. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I don't know what heavy penance I would not have gladly undertaken rather than practice prayer. -- Saint Teresa of Avila
It is penance to work, to give oneself to others, to endure the pinpricks of community living. -- Dorothy Day
No penance can your hard heart find save such as you long since have taught me to endure -- Murasaki Shikibu
There is no virtue in penance and fasting which waste the body; they are only fanatical and monkish. -- Immanuel Kant
If you have the courage to imitate Mary Magdalene in her sins, have the courage to imitate her penance! -- Pio of Pietrelcina
Obedience is a penance of reason, and, on that account, a sacrifice more acceptable than all corporal penances and mortifications. -- John of the Cross
If there is any justice in this world, to be a White Sox fan frees a man from any other form of penance. -- Bill Veeck
One cardinal rule of American journalism is that The New York Times Sunday Magazine is a chore, a bore, and a penance to be endured. -- Martin Nolan
No penance serves to renew them, no massive transfusions of trust. Why not even revenge can undo them, so twisted these vows and so crushed. -- Leonard Cohen
I will no longer wound myself with the thoughts and questions that have surrounded me like thorns: that is a penance You do not ask of me. -- Thomas Merton
Everyone has a need to do penance. It's a basic need, like washing. It's about harmony, an absolutely essential inner balance. It's the balance we call morality. -- Jo Nesbo
There are three ways in which sins are forgiven: in baptism, in prayer, and in the greater humility of penance; yet God does not forgive sins except to the baptized -- Saint Augustine
Who judges the judge who judges wrong?The sentence too weak,The sentence too strong.The penance too quick,The penance too long.Who judges the judge who judges wrong? -- Gail Carson Levine
I have traveled a good deal in Concord; and everywhere, in shops, and offices, and fields, the inhabitants have appeared to me to be doing penance in a thousand remarkable ways. -- Henry David Thoreau
Nature has made a mistake in the choice of my sexuality and I must do a life-long penance for it, for the moral power to suffer the unavoidable with dignity is lost. -- Richard von Krafft-Ebing
Why the hell don't people understand there are some things you don't talk about? You keep it to yourself so you hurt fewer people. You're supposed to pay with guilt. Guilt is penance. -- Erika Swyler
My austerities, fasting and prayers are, I know, of no value if I rely upon them for reforming me. My penance is the prayer of a bleeding heart for forgiveness for sins unwittingly committed. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Since the Fall, man had accepted labor as a penance and for its power to work redemption. It was not a law of nature which forced man to work, but the effect of a curse. -- Michel Foucault
Let it be known that this is the true Church, in which there is confession and penance and which takes a health-promoting care of the sins and wounds to which the weak flesh is subject. -- Lactantius

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