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“I am inclined to believe that one who is a coward will be born after death as an insect or a worm, that there is no salvation for a coward even after millions of years of penance.”

Years Believe Born Millions Salvation Coward Cowardice Worms Insects After Death Penance

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“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.”

Care Church Sin Known Subjects Weak Flesh Wounds Confession Promoting Penance

Author:Lactantius

“I had grown accustomed to life being interesting and adventure ridden and, rather childishly, I refused to believe that this must necessarily come to an end and that the rest of my life should be a sort of penance for all the reckless, irresponsible, and immensely fun things I’d done before.”

Should Believe Ends Done Fun Interesting Adventure Accustomed Reckless Irresponsible Penance Fun Things

Book:The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific

Source: The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific

“Within the Church, sins are forgiven in three ways: by baptism, by prayer, and by the greater humility of penance; yet God does not forgive sins except to the baptized.”

Way Doe Three Prayer Sin Greater Humility Forgiving Forgiven Baptism Baptized Penance Three Ways

Author:Saint Augustine

“The Raven's house is built with reeds, — Sing woe, and alas is me! And the Raven's couch is spread with weeds, High on the hollow tree; And the Raven himself, telling his beads In penance for his past misdeeds, Upon the top I see.”

Past House Tree Built Spread Weed Woe Alas Hollow Couches Reeds Ravens Beads Penance Misdeeds

Author:Thomas D

“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.”

Past Regret Faults Saint Commit Penance

Author:Bernard of Clairvaux

“LOVE is essentially self-communicative: those who do not have it catch it from those who have it.... No amount of rites, rituals, ceremonies, worship, meditation, penance and remembrance can produce love in themselves. None of these is necessarily a sign of love. On the contrary, those who sigh loudly and weep and wail have yet to experience love. Love sets on fire the one who finds it. At the same time it seals his lips so that no smoke comes out”

Love Self Love Is Fire Meditation Produce Amount Worship Lips Contrary Smoke Ritual Remembrance Sigh Ceremony Seals Rite Penance Experience Love Signs Of Love

Author:Meher Baba

“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.”

Long Made Suffering Choices Lost Mistake Moral Dignity Sexuality Long Life Made A Mistake Penance

Book:Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-Forensic Study

Source: Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-Forensic Study

“The examination of conscience has an important educational value. it teaches us to look sincerely at our own lives, to compare them with the truth of the Gospel and to evaluate them with parameters that are not only human but drawn from divine Revelation. Comparison with the Commandments, with the Beatitudes, and above all with the Precept to love, represents the first great 'school of penance”

“Lent is a fitting time for self-denial; we would do well to ask ourselves what we can give up in order to help and enrich others by our own poverty. Let us not forget that real poverty hurts: no self-denial is real without this dimension of penance. I distrust a charity that costs nothing and does not hurt.”

Giving Wells Doe Real Self Helping Order Asks Hurt Forget Poverty Cost Giving Up Charity Denial Dimensions Distrust Fitting Self-denial Penance Lenten

Author:Pope Francis

“If there is any justice in this world, to be a White Sox fan frees a man from any other form of penance.”

Ifs Men World Form Justice White Fans This World Penance

Book:Veeck--As In Wreck: The Autobiography of Bill Veeck

Source: Veeck--As In Wreck: The Autobiography of Bill Veeck

“No one should judge that he has greater perfection because he performs great penances and gives himself in excess to the staying of the body than he who does less, inasmuch as neither virtue nor merit consists therein; for otherwise he would be an evil case, who for some legitimate reason was unable to do actual penance. Merit consists in the virtue of love alone, flavored with the light of true discretion without which the soul is worth nothing.”

Giving Should Doe Soul Reason Body Light Would Be Evil Cases Virtue Greater Judging Perfection Merit Staying Excess Discretion Penance Alone In Love

Author:St. Catherine of Siena

“Let us read the lives of the saints; let us consider the penances which they performed, and blush to be so effeminate and so fearful of mortifying our flesh.”

Saint Flesh Attachment Fearful Penance

Author:Alphonsus Liguori

“Penance to be sure must be used as a tool, in due times and places, as need may be. If the flesh, being too strong, kicks against the spirit, penance takes the rod of discipline, and fast, and the cilice of many buds, and mighty vigils; and places burdens enough on the flesh, that it may be more subdued. But if the body is weak, fallen into illness, the rule of discretion does not approve of such a method.”

Ifs Needs May Doe Enough Body Used Spirit Strong Discipline Tools Weak Method Illness Burden Dues Flesh Fallen Kicks Attachment Bud Discretion Penance Due Time

Author:St. Catherine of Siena

“We have very little, so we have nothing to be preoccupied with. The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give. But the less you have, the more free you are.”

Giving Littles Calcutta Penance Mortification Blessed Mother

Author:Mother Teresa

“Christians aren't people who never sin or always do the right thing. We're people who live in continual repentance.”

People Christian Sin Right Thing Sinner Repentance Rapper Penance Penitence

Author:LeCrae

“Everything is possible for the believer. I have watched impure souls mad for physical love but turning what they know of such love into a reason for penance and transferring that same capacity for love to the Lord. I have watched them master fear so as to drive themselves unsparingly toward the love of God. That is why, when talking of that chaste harlot, the Lord does not say, 'because she feared,' but rather, 'because she loved much' she was able to drive out love with love (Lk. 7:47).”

Knows Doe Soul Reason Able Christian Talking Lord Masters Capacity Mad Believer God Love Orthodox Orthodox Christian Chaste Penance Harlots

Book:John Climacus (CWS)

Source: John Climacus (CWS)

“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.”

Doe Seems Pain Form Suffering Causes Bones Flesh Sickness Penetrate Suitable Penance

Book:The Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola

Source: The Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola

“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.”

Mean Together Purpose Three Sin Conditions Sorrow Catholic Saint Satisfaction Amendments Confession Good Work Penance Omission Confessing Contrition

Book:The Aquinas Catechism: A Simple Explanation of the Catholic Faith by the Church's Greatest Theologian

Source: The Aquinas Catechism: A Simple Explanation of the Catholic Faith by the Church's Greatest Theologian

“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.”

Kind Asks Sin Things To Do Decent Intervals Penance Asking For Forgiveness

Author:Joseph J. Ellis

“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.”

Revenge Massive Why Not Twisted Vow Crushed Retribution Penance

Author:Leonard Cohen

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