Thomas Aquinas Quotes About Confession

Quotes about: Confession

• In the life of the body a man is sometimes sick, and unless he takes medicine, he will die. Even so in the spiritual life a man is sick on account of sin. For that reason he needs medicine so that he may be restored to health; and this grace is bestowed in the Sacrament of Penance.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Spiritual, Men, Medicine

• The minister to whom confession is made is the delegate of Christ, Who is the Judge of the living and the dead.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Judging, Saint, Christ

• 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

  Mean, Omission, Catholic

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (2000). “The Aquinas Catechism: A Simple Explanation of the Catholic Faith by the Church's Greatest Theologian”, p.86, Sophia Institute Press

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