Penance Quotes

The best penance is to have patience with the sorrows God permits. A very good penance is to dedicate oneself to fulfill the duties of everyday with exactitude and to study and work with all our strength.

If you have the courage to imitate Mary Magdalene in her sins, have the courage to imitate her penance!

Obedience is a penance of reason, and, on that account, a sacrifice more acceptable than all corporal penances and mortifications.

To remove untouchability is a penance that caste Hindus owe to Hinduism and to themselves.

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.

Tapas is not a penance, it's a mental training to develop will power

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.

Chaos is the penance for leisure.

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.

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 the practice of prayer.

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.

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

No penance can your hard heart find save such as you long since have taught me to endure

The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give.

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.

There is no virtue in penance and fasting which waste the body; they are only fanatical and monkish.

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.

God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.

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.

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.

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