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" 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. "

Thomas Aquinas

Sin

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God

Work

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" To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin. "

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" The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them. "

" Not everything that is more difficult is more meritorious. "

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Difficult

Everything

" If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way. "

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You

Way

" Because of the diverse conditions of humans, it happens that some acts are virtuous to some people, as appropriate and suitable to them, while the same acts are immoral for others, as inappropriate to them. "

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