Guilt Quotes
Acts that proceed from your calm center are always more effective than acts that proceed from fear, guilt, or anger.
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.
God is not necessary to create culpability, or to punish. Our fellow men are enough for that, helped by ourselves.
The more I accuse myself, the more right I have to judge you. Even better, I make you judge yourself, which comforts me the more.
To get over the guilt of drinking, take your brandy in milk. This way, it becomes medicinal.
Sometimes love needs a rest from caring, and so bears for an intolerable few hours the guilt of not caring.
One can fall in love as often as a tree grows leaves. It is perfectly natural but not free of guilt and complications, unless one takes oneself to be a leaf.
Shame and guilt are noble emotions essential in the maintenance of civilized society, and vital for the development of some of the most refined and elegant qualities of human potential.
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.
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.
My conscience is crosswired with my sweat glands, but there's a short in the system and I break out over things I didn't do, which only makes me look more suspect.
Ah! it is well for the unfortunate to be resigned, but for the guilty there is no peace.
Because no retreat from the world can mask what is in your face.
The events that occur in my life are workout situations. They are there for my benefit so I can become strong and gain wisdom and information by working my way through those situations.
You have a conscience, and a conscience is a valuable attribute, but not if it begins to make you think you were to blame for what is far beyond the scope of your responsibility.
When she can't bring me to heal with scolding, she bends me to shape with guilt.
I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.
It has always seemed that a fear of judgment is the mark of guilt and the burden of insecurity.
When guilt is in its blush of infancy, it trembles in a tenderness of shame; and the first eye that pierces through the veil that hides the secret brings it to the face
Being raised Catholic myself, I think people who are Catholic tend to carry a lot of guilt. It's almost a joke.
Every soul confined in a prison of sin, guilt, or perversion has a key to the gate. The key is labeled “repentance.” If you know how to use this key, the adversary cannot hold you.
There is no man that is knowingly wicked but is guilty to himself; and there is no man that carries guilt about him but he receives a sting in his soul.
A guilty mind can be eased by nothing but repentance; by which what was ill done is revoked and morally voided and undone.
One key to successful relationships is learning to say "no" without guilt, so that you can say "yes" without resentment.
The treason of which I stand convicted loses all its guilt, has been sanctified as a duty, and will be ennobled as a sacrifice.
We have made drugs an Olympic event. It receives most of the coverage at the Games and even the suspicion of guilt can ruin a reputation for life.
We make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars; as if we were villians by compulsion.
I had a Christian upbringing - it was all about sin and guilt. I was very happy just kissing people. I was like the make-out queen - not even second base.
Men the most infamous are fond of fame, And those who fear not guilt yet start at shame.
Confession of one's guilt purifies and uplifts. Its suppression is degrading and should always be avoided.