Quotes About Penitence

High justice would in no way be debased if ardent love should cancel instantly the debts these penitents must satisfy.

Don't offer God partnership when he wants penitence. Don't present him with lip service when He wants your life.

He seems truly sorry.

It was a long week of penitence and fasting, during which there were no card games and no music that might lead to lust or abandon; and within the limits of possibility, the strictest sadness and chastity were observed, even though it was precisely at this time that the forked tail of the devil pricked most insistently at Catholic flesh.

No se preguntaba por qué rehuía el amor, ya que la respuesta le parecía obvia: era su ineludible penitencia. Con el tiempo se había acostumbrado a sus hábitos de monje y a ese silencio interno de los que viven y duermen solos.

She'd once admitted during confession that she felt doomed to bear only sons, like a curse from the Devil. In penitence she was ordered to recite a rosary every day for two years straight and to make a sizable donation to the church renovation fund. Her husband forbade her from returning to confession.

This morbid meddling of conscience with an immaterial matter betokened, it is to be feared, no genuine and steadfast penitence, but something doubtful, something that might be deeply wrong, beneath.

Is there no reality in the penitence thus sealed and witnessed by good works?

God may turn his ears from prattling prayers, or preaching prayers, but never from penitent, believing prayers.

Prayer in the sense of petition, asking for things, is a small part of it; confession and penitence are its threshold, adoration its sanctuary, the presence and vision and enjoyment of God its bread and wine.

It is too late for lip service, the service of the Pharisee. God is deaf to such prayers. There must be an awakening in the hearts of man, true repentance, true penance. Not prayers that we be saved from the death of the body, but prayers that we be saved from the death of the spirit, which is hatred and lust and cruelty and materialism.

Now stand in the corner, and think about what you've done!

True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.

Qué coño, seguro que hasta hay monjas de alguna orden dispuestas a echarte un polvo por simple caridad. O como acto de penitencia.

To fall into it again in appearance was to leave it behind in reality! He had to do it! He would have done nothing if he didn't do that! His whole life would have been useless, all his penitence wasted, and there would be only one thing left to say: What is the point?

I was raised a Roman Catholic, but it was the kind of domesticated Catholicism that focused mostly on the length of your skirt rather than, say, the depth of your penitential observance

Amar aos homens como castigo Como os homens são, quase todos, desprezíveis e repugnantes - tudo menos dignos de amor -, amá-los por determinação (e só por temor a Deus os podemos amar) constitui uma pena, um suplício, uma penitência.

San Gregorio dice: "El pecado que no se deshace por la penitencia, en seguida arrastra por su peso a otro pecado".

Sins of ignorance or infirmity are to be admonished in a different way than intentional sins of malice of intention. The assurance of forgiveness is not to be offered carelessly by those whose conscience is seared, but to penitents who come contritely to the table of the Lord.

Every experienced pastor knows that what the penitent heart says about itself is much more consequential than well-made truthful sentences that shout from the outside of the inner voice of conscience. No element of confession is more crucial than the discipline of listening. The attentive listener is a chosen agent of divine reconciliation. When the moment for keen listening is offered, take it as an inestimable gift.

That vague kind of penitence which holidays awaken next morning.

me era imposible mirarla sin sentir compasión, pues advertía que estaba muy castigada al haberse convertido en una ruina, por no tener ningún lugar en la tierra en que había nacido; por la vanidad del dolor, que había sido su principal manía, como la vanidad de la penitencia, del remordimiento y de la indignidad, así como otras monstruosas vanidades que han sido otras tantas maldiciones en este mundo.

Scrooge hung his head to hear his own words quoted by the Spirit, and was overcome with penitence and grief.

Through all my punishments, disgraces, fasts, and vigils, and other penitential performances, I had nursed this assurance; and to my communing so much with it, in a solitary and unprotected way, I in great part refer the fact that I was morally timid and very sensitive.