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 1   2,      1|       place reliance chiefly on penance, but rather on virtues;
 2   2,      1| instruments of virtue; works of penance performed alone without
 3   2,      1|        the soul perform not her penance with discretion, that is
 4   2,      1|       placed principally in the penance she has undertaken, her
 5   2,      1|     should the soul perform her penance, that is, she should place
 6   2,      1|        in virtue rather than in penance. Penance should be but the
 7   2,      1|         rather than in penance. Penance should be but the means
 8   2,      1|         place her foundation on penance she will contaminate her
 9   2,      1|         perfection, because her penance will not be done in the
10   2,      3|                             How penance and other corporal exercises
11   2,      3|         desirous of doing great penance for My sake, asking, 'What
12   2,      3|     therefore that the works of penance, and of other corporal exercises,
13   2,      3|         the soul were placed in penance, I should receive a finite
14   2,      3|  foundation should be placed in penance only, or in any exterior
15   2,      3|         was unable to do actual penance. Merit consists in the virtue
16   3,     17|     that the one lives in great penance, and the other does not,
17   3,     17|         he who does the greater penance has the higher perfection?
18   3,     19|          doing great and severe penance. These, in order that their
19   3,     19|     their souls at the table of penance, and are good and perfect,
20   3,     19|      good and perfect, if their penance be illuminated by discretion,
21   3,     28|         of sin with reproof and penance, little or much, according
22   3,     28| correcting them and giving them penance for the sins they committed --
23   3,     28|      through love endured their penance -- together with them. For
24   3,     28|         love, they who gave the penance, bore more pain than they
25   3,     28|      who actually performed the penance, and especially when they
26   3,     30|       macerating his flesh with penance, with watchings, and humble
27   4,      5|    through fear, others through penance, others through allurements,
28   4,      8|     when he can through fear of penance. When he is obliged to be