Penance Quotes

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.

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.

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

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.

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.