Guilt Quotes - Page 15

Our sins, like to our shadows, when our day was in its glory, scarce appeared; toward our evening, how great and monstrous!

Faith is illuminative, not operative; it does not force obedience, though it increases responsibility; it heightens guilt, but it does not prevent sin. The will is the source of action.

You know, the genders are different in how they approach things, and so I really think that women put a lot more guilt on themselves than need be.

A guilty conscience means at least you have one.

Punishment closely follows guilt as its companion.

I can learn to live with guilt. I don't care about being good.

It’s scary to realize that the only thing holding our friends to us isn’t our performance, or our lovability, or their guilt, or their obligation. The only thing that will keep them calling, spending time with us, and putting up with us is love. And that’s the one thing we can’t control.

[a] heavy sense of guilt [is] the most potent factor in the whole psychologic picture of motherliness.

I don't have any gnawing guilt over contributing to any unhappiness suffered by my husbands. They were as much to blame as I was.

It is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent

My conscience is clear, because I know that in my conscience and in front of God I am guilty of nothing. I hope human justice will see at the same way.

Only in a true life or death scenario can you have mental clearness to know that you cannot feel guilty for surviving.

Anger was better than tears, better than grief, better than guilt.

Guilt starts as a feeling of failure.

guilt to motherhood is like grapes to wine

I am guilty of the great crime of optimism.

The fierce and partial writers of the times, ascribing all virtue to themselves, and imputing all guilt to their adversaries, have painted the battle of the angels and the demons.

Sleep demands of us a guilty immunity.

The sense of anxiety and guilt doesn't come from having too much to do; it's the automatic result of breaking agreements with yourself.

What right can give anyone authority to inflict torture upon a citizen when it is still unknown whether he is innocent or guilty?

Guilt: I'm sorry. I made a mistake. Shame: I'm sorry. I am a mistake.

The guilt that accompanies mistakes can be washed away.

There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!

In this country your guilty until proven wealthy.

My beloved church misunderstood me. It preached the corruptibility of humanity when I came to demonstrate its potential for incorruptibility. It propounded the sinfulness of humanity when I suffered to reveal your godliness and to overcome your guilt by demonstrating that you can totally rise above the death of the body.