Guilt Quotes - Page 4

To put it bluntly and plainly, if Christ is not my Substitute, I still occupy the place of a condemned sinner. If my sins and my guilt are not transferred to Him, if He did not take them upon Himself, then surely they remain with me. If He did not deal with my sins, I must face their consequences. If my penalty was not borne by Him, it still hangs over me. There is no other possibility.

It's of no use to look back and say, "I should have been different." At any given moment, we are the way we are, and we see what we're able to see. For that reason, guilt is always inappropriate.

While business advertises, charity is taught to beg. While business motivates with a dollar, charity is told to motivate with guilt. While business takes chances, charity is expected to be cautious. We measure the success of businesses over the long term, but we want our gratification in charity immediately. We are taught that a return on investment should be offered for making consumer goods, but not for making a better world.

We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the guilt of a sin.

A broom sweeps clean, and itself becomes soiled; cleanse yourself of those offenses of which you may feel guilty.

We have rejected such spectacles as the Coliseum. How then, when we do not even look on killing lest we should contract guilt and pollution, can we put people to death?

Guilt rarely results in positive behavior. But gratitude? Great things flow from a heart of gratitude.

Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them must share the guilt for the dead.

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.

Not only is homosexuality a sin, but anyone who supports fags is just as guilty as they are. You are both worthy of death.

I'm absolutely, 100 percent, not guilty.

But I have my life, I’m living it. It’s twisted, exhausting, uncertain, and full of guilt, but nonetheless, there’s something there.

Was it you or I who stumbled first? It does not matter. The one of us who finds the strength to get up first, must help the other.

Salvation is not a reward for the righteous, it is a gift for the guilty.

Make peace with guilt. Guilt is a poisonous illusion. Many languages don't even have a word for guilt.

Why should I resign ... First of all, I am not guilty of any of these charges. Second, we have a constitution to follow.

I am tortured when I am away from my family, from my children. I am horribly guilt-ridden.

For there have risen many who have given to the plain words of Holy Writ some arbitrary interpretation of their own, instead of its true and only sense, and this in defiance of the clear meaning of words. Heresy lies in the sense assigned, not in the word written; the guilt is that of the expositor, not of the text.

Whether a man is guilty or innocent, we have to find that out by due process of law.

If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful.

I am in blood Stepp'd in so far, that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er.

I am convinced by a sad experience that it is natural to avoid those to whom we have been too much obliged, and that uncommon generosity causes neglect rather than gratitude.

So great are the psychological resistances to war in modern nations, that every war must appear to be a war of defence against a menacing, murderous aggressor. There must be no ambiguity about whom the public is to hate. Guilt and guilelessness must be assessed geographically and all the guilt must be on the other side of the frontier.

Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.

What's my guilty pleasure? The thing is, I never feel guilty about pleasures.