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Let the spirit out - Discard all thoughts of reward, all hopes of praise and fears of blame, all awareness of one's bodily self. And, finally closing the avenues of sense perception, let the spirit out, as it will.
The reward of renunciation is some good greater than the thing renounced. To renounce with no vision of such a good, from fear or in automatic obedience to a formula, is to weaken the springs of life, and to diminish the soul's resistance to this world.
Pardon is granted to necessity.
Our five sense are dulled by inordinate pleasure. Penance makes them keen, gives them back their natural vitality, and more. Penance clears the eye of conscience and of reason.
When we undertake to cover our sins, ... behold, the heavens withdraw themselves; the Spirit of the Lord is grieved; and when it is withdrawn, Amen to the priesthood or the authority of that man
Not only the guilt, but the love of sin, and its dominion, are taken away, subdued by grace, and cordially renounced by the believing pardoned sinner.
Remorse is cureless
the Disease
Not even God
can heal
For 'tis His institution
and
The Adequate of Hell
When the intensity it takes to extricate one from a negative state is equal to or greater than the intensity that perpetuated the state, then the person can be freed of that state
The Miracle of Forgiveness
For one crime which is expiated in prison ten thousand are committed thoughtlessly by those who condemn.
Remorse is impotence, impotence which sins again. Repentance alone is powerful; it ends all.
Resolve, and thou art free.
A clean confession combined with a promise never to commit the sin again, when offered before one who has the right to receive it, is the purest type of repentance.
regret with dignity and grace.
All gone. All anger quelled, all desire drained, all thirst slaked, all madness past.
Abruptly excusing himself,
Repentance, to be of any avail, must work a change of heart and conduct.
The weapons of divine justice are blunted by the confession and sorrow of the offender.
Repentance is the word that gives us a second chance.
The renunciation of doing harm is the perfection of discipline
Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but is serves no penal purpose more effectively than a less severe punishment.
If you keep on excusing, you eventually give your blessing to the slave camp, to cowardly force, to organized executioners, to the cynicism of great political monsters; you finally hand over your brothers.
That deed is not well done of which a man must repent, and the reward of which he receives crying and with a tearful face.
Being conscious of having done a wicked action leaves stings of remorse behind it, which, like an ulcer in the flesh, makes the mind smart with perpetual wounds; for reason, which chases away all other pains, creates repentance, shames the soul with confusion, and punishes it with torment.
With renunciation life begins.
Promise in haste, repent at leisure,
The proof of true repentance is immediate restitution.
Punishment - The justice that the guilty deal out to those that are caught.
Self redemption is the first step to exoneration from guilt.
The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.
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.
Surrender to God.
Slight sorrow for sin is sufficient, provided it at the same time produces amendment.
Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
EXHORT, v.t. In religious affairs, to put the conscience of another upon the spit and roast it to a nut-brown discomfort.
Having asked God for forgiveness, accept release, then truly forgive yourself and turn your back definitely on the matter.
reward for the righteous.
Seek virtue and of that posest, to Providence resign the rest.
Excarnation The process by which religion (and Christianity in particular) is dis-embodied and de-ritualized, turned into a belief system.
Death from sin no power can separate.
Confession has a "consequence" too - a good consequence! A free and happy heart!
Law can discover sin, but not remove, Save by those shadowy expiations weak.
Forget, forgive; conclude, and be agreed.
An act of renunciation is an act of union with God. The Divine Master looks lovingly upon a person who gains a victory over self.
Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.
You are redeemed and you are also victorious, over your sins in Jesus.
The man who is really forgiven, is anxious not to offend again; the possession of justification leads to an anxious desire for sanctification.
To be in Christ
that is redemption; but for Christ to be in you
that is sanctification!
God's kiss of forgiveness sucks the poison out of the wound.
To do so no more is the truest repentance.
I thought a time would come when people would rout me out of Ars with sticks, when the Bishop would suspend me, and I should end my days in prison. I see, however, that I am not worthy of such a grace.
Righteousness exalts
Confession is the giving up of ALL self-righteousness.
Bring your mind to noble silence. Unify your mind in noble silence. Concentrate your mind in noble silence ... Enter into rapture and pleasure born of silence derived of concentration and awareness that is free from thought and fabrication.
The purifying influence of public confession springs from the fact, that by it the hope in lies is forever swept away, and the soul recovers the noble attitude of simplicity.
It is as expedient that a wicked man be punished as that a sick man be cured by a physician; for all chastisement is a kind of medicine.
Purge me from every sinful blot;
My idols all be cast aside:
Cleanse me from every evil thought,
From all the filth of self and pride.
The hatred of the carnal mind
Out of my flesh at once remove:
Give me a tender heart, resigned,
And pure, and full of faith and love.
A delicate balance is required: keep the penitent tautly close to the point of recognizing sin, and then allow the relief of that pressure to flow through forgiveness. Confession increases this tautness, only to clear the path for release.
There is unspeakable joy ... for the person who knows release from guilt and the relief of forgiveness.
If you excuse yourself in confession, you shut up sin within your soul, and
shut out pardon.
Redemption is reliant on being forgiven
Relief is a short-lived emotion, passive and thin. The agony of doubt disappears, leaving little memory of how it really felt. Life aligns behind the new truth.
Done to death by slanderous tongue
Her victim - of necessity she must put him away from her - he must be removed from her presence, from this world. She must destroy the evidence of her offense. What was
We know that the exercise of virtue should be its own reward, and it seems to follow that the enduring of it on the part of the patient should be its own punishment.
You have to refine your being. You have to go through all of the stages and steps of erasing yourself through service to others with purity, humility, integrity.
Forgiveness is a practiced and fervrent process".
~R. Alan Woods [2012]
extirp all errors, heresies, and other enormities and
An eye for an eye.Eye-- Belle Aurora
[S]ex no longer frightens people; it can no longer be used to develop a sense of guilt, and thereby to force submission.
The object of punishment is to ... lift the man up; to stamp out his bad nature and wicked disposition.
Forgiving and being forgiven frees our souls and lightens our load.
The promises made by a guilty conscience acknowledge and settle no debts...
Repentance is not completed by a single act, it must be incorporated into our mind, till it become a fixed state, arising from a continual sense of our need of it.
Repentance is an internal shift
The practice of forgiving is a sequential practice that begins with excusing someone.
Repentance clothes in grass and flowers the grave in which the past is laid.
Renunciation means death of false ego.
Humiliate the reason and distort the soul.
For what I have publish'd, I can only hope to be pardon'd; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais'd.
Repent heart, rebirth of spirit.
The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.
There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you.
Keeping away for all evil deeds, cultivation of life by doing good deeds and purification of mind from mental impunities.
defenestration," which derives from "fenestra," the Latin word for "window," refers to the act of throwing something or someone out of the window. Knowing this, we can impress our friends with statements like, "Sally finished her apple and defenestrated the core.")
Flogging. The only solution to every problem. I warrant even the culprit himself doesn't know! It was just - his turn!
When the soul repents, the spirit is redeemed.
True repentance is to cease from sin.
To wait - only to wait - without even the final merciful deprivation of hope.
Sometimes I think that some secret court must have tried and condemned me, unheard, to this heavy sentence.
Two works of mercy set a person free: Forgive and you will be forgiven, and give and you will receive.
The pleasure of sin is soon gone, but the sting remains.
Righteous ends, thus approved, absolve of guilt the most violent means.
[ ... ] the purifying action of Conscience upsets the legal order.
To be absolved, especially if you commit a crime, there is no absolution, you must pay. But for forgiveness, with God or nature, you have to accept what you've done.
Not to be occupied with your sin, but to be occupied with God brings deliverance from self.
The rosary in the hand, repentance on the lips, and the heart full of sinful longings-sin itself laughs at our repentance!
We routinely disqualify testimony that would plead for extenuation. That is, we are so persuaded of the rightness of our judgment as to invalidate evidence that does not confirm us in it. Nothing that deserves to be called truth could ever be arrived at by such means.
When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it and avarice possesses the whole community.
Pardons and pleasantnesse are great revenges of slanders.
I have reached the conviction that the abolition of the death penalty is desirable. Reasons: 1) Irreparability in the event of an error of justice, 2) Detrimental moral influence of the execution procedure on those who, whether directly or indirectly, have to do with the procedure.