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what is repentance? a great sorrow over the fact that we are the way we are
Marie Von Ebner- Eschenbach
Some saints described themselves as terrible criminals because they saw god, they saw themselves - and they saw the difference
Blessed Teresa Calcutta
Penance is the second Baptism, the baptism of tears
St. Gregory Nazianzen
Love covers a multitude of sins
Peter 4:8
After a fall, stand again right away! Do not leave sin in your heart for even a moment!
St. John Vianney
God esteems repentance so highly that the slightest repentance in the World as long as it is genuine, cause him to forget any kind of sin, so that even the devils would have all their sins forgiven, if only they could have remorse.
St Francis de sales
If you forgive the sins of any, they forgiven; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained
John 20: 23
Repentance results from knowledge of the truth
Thomas Stearns Eliot
A sign of sincere repentance is avoiding the occasion of sin
St. Bernard of Clairvaux
We put off our conversion again and again until death, but who says we will have time and strengthen for it then?
St. John Vianney
Candor toward a brother must not be mistaken or for confession. The latter is made to the Lord of heaven and earth in the presence of a man is authorized to hear it
Brother Rodger Schutz
The closet thing to a father confessor is probably a bartender
Peter Sellers
Love Jesus! Have no fear! even if you had committed all the sins in the world, Jesus repeats these words to you: your many sins are forgiven, because you loved very much
St. Padre Pio of Pietrelcina
It is not correct to think we must live like this, so that we never in need of pardon. we must accept our frailty, but keep on going, not giving up but moving forward and becoming converted ever anew through the sacrament of Reconcilation for a new start, and thus grow and mature in the Lord by our communioun with him
Pope Benedict XVI
