Guilt Quotes - Page 21

Sin is a technique of the pseudo-religions. A true religion has no need of the concept at all. The pseudo-religion cannot live without the concept of sin, because sin is the technique of creating guilt in people.

I find it's a very positive movement and something you can do every day in little ways. Our philosophy on the website (www.greenissexy.org) is not to have green guilt, do what you can.

My guilty pleasure is Flamin' Hot Cheetos.

It is easy to defend the innocent; but who is eloquent enough to defend the guilty?

He who helps the guilty, shares the crime.

All good men and women should be on their guard to avoid guilt, and even the suspicion of it.

I esteem death a trifle, if not caused by guilt.

December 25th has become guilt and obligation.

Many people weigh the guilt, they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.

When looking at Germans, I have never felt a sense that they are guilty. I have encountered anti-Semitism in the United States as well.

Alas! how difficult it is not to betray one's guilt by one's looks.

Forbear to lay the guilt of a few on the many.

If you feel guilty or quietly ashamed, seek the power of the Atonement.

By the sympathy of your human hearts for sin ye shall scent out all the places — whether in church, bedchamber, street, field, or forest — where crime has been committed, and shall exult to behold the whole earth one stain of guilt, one mighty blood spot.

What is guilt? It is moral self-reproach-I did wrong when it was possible to have done otherwise.

There are no innocent people in a guilty nation.

When we evaluate the rightness or wrongness of actions or behavior, we need to ask ourselves if that behavior will edify—build up—ourselves or someone else, or if it will tear down. The question is not what we can get away with, but what is healthy and edifying. When it is all said and done, are we edified spiritually? Have we been built up and strengthened in our relationship with the Lord or with our spouse, or have we been weakened? Do we come away encouraged or discouraged, confident or filled with a sense of guilt or shame? Is our conscience clean?

It is only too easy to compel a sensitive human being to feel guilty about anything.

Guilt isn't always a rational thing, Clio realized. Guilt is a weight that will crush you whether you deserve it or not.

Ah! it is well for the unfortunate to be resigned, but for the guilty there is no peace.

Guilt soon learns to lie.

But I don't believe in guilt by association.

I was very apprehensive, mostly because I didn’t want to get caught. By now, I had begun to feel removed from the everyday world of morality. Guilt had become more a fear of getting caught than any sense of right or wrong.

What is our innocence, What is our guilt? All are naked, none is safe.

Guilt is present in the very hesitation, even though the deed be not committed.