Penance Quotes


The Catholic laity doesn't know what priests the Vatican is being asked to sanction. They don't know what the bishops are recommending. We don't know why some get no sanctions, some get minimal sanctions and some get removed from the priesthood. If sanctions are imposed, it is often months before it's announced. And there seems to be absolutely no monitoring of these prayer and penance guys. - David Clohessy


Sunday school: a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents. - HL Mencken


SCARIFICATION, n. A form of penance practised by the mediaeval pious. The rite was performed, sometimes with a knife, sometimes with a hot iron, but always, says Arsenius Asceticus, acceptably if the penitent spared himself no pain nor harmless disfigurement. Scarification, with other crude penances, has now been superseded by benefaction. The founding of a library or endowment of a university is said to yield to the penitent a sharper and more lasting pain than is conferred by the knife or iron, and is therefore a surer means of grace. There are, however, two grave objections to it as a penitential method: the good that it does and the taint of justice. - Ambrose Bierce


Just like, what is sin without penance, what is Christmas without presents! May you receive loads of them. Merry Christmas and a fun-filled New Year. - Unknown


I have been doing penance for that ever since. - Christopher Peterson


I don't want to reveal too much, but Ghost Rider is the Spirit of Vengeance. When he goes after someone he's looking for, he's looking for penance. He takes his pound of flesh. Well, why? Why doesn't he just waste them like the Punisher? They've got it coming and he can do it. Why does he extract that penance? That's going to be a question that's posed and eventually answered. - Daniel Way


For those who choose to take advantage of the dispensation, they are asked to perform another act of penance in lieu of abstaining from meat. - Sean Dolan


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