Would you like me to list also the paths of repentance? They are numerous and quite varied, and all lead to heaven. A first path of repentance is condemnation of your own sins: “Be first to admit your sins and you will be justified” [declared not guilty in God’s eyes]. That will be enough reason for the Lord to forgive you, for if you condemn your own sins you are slower to commit them again.

Another and no less valuable one is to put our of our minds the harm done us by our enemies, in order to master our anger, and to forgive our fellow servants’ sins against us. Then our own sins against the Lord will be forgiven us.

Do you want to know a third path? It consists of prayer that is fervent, careful and comes from the heart.

If you want to hear of a fourth, I will mention almsgiving, whose power is great and far-reaching. If, moreover, one lives a modest, humble life, that no less than the other things I have mentioned takes away sin. Proof of this is the tax collector who had no good deeds to mention, but offered humility instead and was relieved of a heavy burden of sins.

Thus I have shown you five paths of repentance: condemnation of your own sins, forgiveness of our neighbor’s sins against us, prayer, almsgiving and humility.

Do not be idle, then, but walk daily in all these paths; they are easy, and you cannot plead your poverty [for not being able to walk in them].

—Homily on the Devil the Tempter 2, 6.49

If you are reading these as a bean counter, you are missing the point. Look instead to the heart and inner orientation required.