“God didn't send His only Son to die on the cross so that we can hide behind our guilt, shame, and pride.” — Heather Bixler Copy Share Image
I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient. — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Vice, like virtue, Grows in small steps, and no true innocence Can ever fall at once to deepest guilt. — Jean Racine Copy Share Image
Aristocrats: n. fellows that wear downy hats and clean shirts - guilty of education and suspected of bank accounts. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Theres no guilt in eating fruits, vegetables, nuts and grains. — Jane Velez-Mitchell Copy Share Image
If you make someone feel guilty about their mistake, then you have not forgiven them. That guilt is itself punishment. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
Everyone in daily life carries such a heavy mixed burden on his own conscience that he is reluctant to penalize those who… — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share Image
I have to tell every man that an extramarital situation puts you on a perpetual guilt trip. When you are at home,… — Shatrughan Sinha Copy Share Image
“If a child is abused by a family member, most likely they blame themselves for the integral act of abuse than those… — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
Don't seek Happiness or Love. The more you'll do it, the more guilt you'll achieve. Let it come to you. Become deserving… — Inventive 'Hashish' Recoil Copy Share Image
“Guilt is the only affect I know of that does not diminish with time. Nor does the guilty conscience have any sense… — John Banville Copy Share Image
WHAT ARE THE CONSEQUENCES when we go against our instincts? What are the consequences of not speaking out? What are the consequences… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Good subjects must feel guilty. The guilt begins as a feeling of failure. The good autocrat provides many opportunities for failure in… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
There are women named Faith, Hope, Joy, and Prudence. Why not Despair, Guilt, Rage, and Grief? It seems only right. 'Tom, I'd… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Make friends with guilt. Guilt is a beautiful emotion that alerts us when something is wrong so that we may achieve peace… — Glenn R. Schiraldi Copy Share Image
From the perspective of the one committing suicide, his or her act can be one of the most perverse forms of moral… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
There are times when we suffer innocently at other people’s hands. When that occurs, we are victims of injustice. But that injustice… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Monsters, among other brutes, are the ones without guilt feelings. Perhaps Hitler did not have any, or Himmler, or Stalin. Maybe Mafia… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension; when he does not torment himself with childish guilt feelings,… — Joshua L. Liebman Copy Share Image
“Shame is a virus that creates paralysis in its hosts. When you're busy telling yourself what a bad person you are, you… — Rachel Simmons Copy Share Image
“If we can keep the Christians thinking of themselves as sinners not sons and daughters, we can make them view their relationship… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“If our primary caregivers are shame-based, they will act shameless and pass their toxic shame onto us. There is no way to… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
Terror of being found out is not always a preservative, it sometimes hurries on the act which it ought to prevent. — Margaret Oliphant Copy Share Image
“...when life still hesitates to touch us, when neither duty nor guilt dares lay a hand upon us” — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
Sometimes love needs a rest from caring, and so bears for an intolerable few hours the guilt of not caring. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
“Peabody only smiled. Guilt was the best tool, she knew. She’d learned that one at her mother’s knee.” — J.D. Robb Copy Share Image
Be this thy brazen bulwark, to keep a clear conscience, and never turn pale with guilt. — Horace Copy Share Image
As parents we all have that underlying guilt about how much time we give to our careers. — Chris Harris Copy Share Image
Self-forgiveness following guilt is self-essential to esteem, which is key to enjoying life and relationships. — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
Jesus Christ does not save the worthy, but the unworthy. Your plea must not be righteousness but guilt — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Being raised Catholic myself, I think people who are Catholic tend to carry a lot of guilt. It's almost a joke. — Linda Cardellini Copy Share Image
“I wash myself clean of guilt, of pain, of fear, of emotion. I am the ocean. I am empty. I am nothing.” — Kiersten White Copy Share Image
“Guilt is a useless emotion. It cuts you off at the knees and offers nothing in return.” — Barbara Nickless Copy Share Image
He who meditates a crime secretly within himself has all the guilt of the act. — Juvenal Copy Share Image
The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one--or both. Usually both. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Like every working mother, there's guilt involved in deciding how you're going to balance family and work. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Cheap thrill: moral outrage revels in its own innocence and in the guilt of the wicked Others. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
