Quotes About Penance

Satisfied, she calmly turned to Bull, who meekly knelt and sought her forgiveness

Holy Saturday is a day of joy and sadness intermingled; it is the close of the season of Lent and penance and the beginning of paschal time, which is one of rejoicing.

They were students of the expressions of young women as they went in to confession, and they saw them as they came out and read the nature of the sin.

Teresina went often to confession. She was the despair of Father Ramon. Indeed he had seen that while her knees, her hands, and her lips did penance for an old sin, her modest and provocative eyes, flashing under drawn lashes, laid the foundation for a new one. During

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

Accursed be he who willingly saddens an immortal spirit---doomed to infamy in later, wiser ages, doomed in future stages of his own being to deadly penance, only short of death.

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.

But for every price, and every penence that I could think of It's better too have fallen in love, then never to have fallen at all

El cristianismo, al fin, y a pesar de la Magdalena, es religión de hombres -se decía Gertrudis-; masculinos el Padre, el Hijo y el Espíritu Santo...!>>. Pero ¿y la Madre? La religión de la Madre está en: <> y en pedir a su Hijo que provea de vino a una bodas, de vino que embriaga y alegra y hace olvidar penas, y para que el Hijo le diga: <<¿Qué tengo yo que ver contigo, mujer? Aún no ha venido mi hora>>

I did my time for the rape. I paid my money to Las Vegas. I paid my dues.

It was as if she had decided some time ago that she would not care what she looked like beyond being clean, as if to pay penance for having once cared about such things, when in fact she had not.

Your God would never punish you for being a human being: this life itself is your penance...But it is also more than that: it is a crucible for transformation. Each trial, every loss, is an opportunity for you to meet suffering with love and make of it an offering, a prayer. The minute you lift your pain like a candle the darkness vanishes, and mercy comes rushing in to heal you.

It could be said that Christianity's "psychology" was its preoccupation with sin, guilt, penance, and authority.

I smiled back at him and for a second I almost felt guilty about how I'd written the receipt. I also felt guilty about the three pens I'd stolen, but only for a second. And since there was no convenient way to give them back, I stole a bottle of ink before I left.

Decidí que el tipo no era tan mala persona. Le devolví la sonrisa y, por un instante, casi me sentí culpable por lo que había escrito en el recibo. También me sentí culpable por las tres plumas que le había robado, pero el malestar solo me duró unos segundos. Y como no había ninguna forma conveniente de devolvérselas, antes de marcharme le robé un tintero.

All of us live with our own demons, do penance in our private ways. We need our friends for support and advice, but we draw our strength from within. In the end we are alone.

All of us live with our own demons, do penance in our private ways. We need other people for support, but we draw our strength from within. In the end, despite faith and friends, we are alone.

Each time we sin, the Devil strengthens his grip on us. Through Penance, we loosen that grip and pull free of his control. Not only do we receive forgiveness of past sins; we receive grace to resist temptations to come.