“Even with the very best of intentions, even with the ambition of making the world a better place, when we cast judgment… — Agnostic Zetetic Copy Share Image
“According to Dr. Hartling, in order to deal with shame, some of us move away by withdrawing, hiding, silencing ourselves, and keeping… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
“Now since shame is a mental picture of disgrace, in which we shrink from the disgrace itself and not from its consequences,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I thought of all the magazine article I'd read on mothers who worked and constantly felt guilty about leaving their children with… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I came up from growing up with a lot of Catholic guilt, a lot of punk rock, hipster guilt in the later… — Jack White Copy Share Image
Dogmatic religion has been used to fantastic effect over thousands of years to fuel and exploit emotions like fear and guilt, and… — David Icke Copy Share Image
When one read's Kierkegaard's profound analyses of anxiety and despair or Nietzsche's amazingly acute insights into the dynamics of resentment and the… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
It just so happens that the green religion is now taking over from the Christian religion. I don't think people have noticed… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
They wanted to 'radiofy' what I was doing. I was also in a position where I was compromised. I was much younger… — Damien Rice Copy Share Image
“Here’s what’s interesting—especially for those who automatically think, You should feel like a terrible friend! or A little shame will help you… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
“Unless, as human beings, we come not only to accept but to openly rejoice in our fundamental and inescapable nature as predators,… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
Contemplation does not ignore the 'historical Gethsemane', does not ignore the mystery of evil, guilt and its bloody atonement. The happiness of… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
Guilt is a good friend, isn't it? It will stand at your back when every other friend has abandoned you, and in… — Holly Lisle Copy Share Image
A professionally trained actress should be a better liar, wouldn't you think? But no. I am pathetically underachieved in that area. I… — Kristin Chenoweth Copy Share Image
“Archer tries not to think of his own state of purity, physically unsullied, yet now spiritually beyond redemption, his thoughts plagued by… — John T. Fuller Copy Share Image
“People, in general, tend to project onto others their own state of mind. Well-meaning people inevitably assume other people are well meaning.… — Anna Salter Copy Share Image
“The cases described in this section (The Fear of Being) may seem extreme, but I have become convinced that they are not… — Alexander Lowen Copy Share Image
“Hello." The doctor speaks softly, nervously. Mr White doesn't respond, not even the slightest change of expression. Dr Archer has been thinking.… — John T. Fuller Copy Share Image
And no, it wasn't shame I now felt, or guilt, but something rarer in my life and stronger than both: remorse. A… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
There is not unmitigated ill in the sharpest of this world's sorrows; I touch not the sore of thy guilt; but of… — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
“The more one is obsessed with God, the less one is innocent. Nobody bothered about him in paradise. The fall brought about… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“Shame is a magnificent isolator, too. It doesn’t allow you to confide in friends. You explain yourself by saying you can handle… — Kinitra Brooks Copy Share Image
For there have risen many who have given to the plain words of Holy Writ some arbitrary interpretation of their own, instead… — Hilary of Poitiers Copy Share Image
Before we can begin to see the cross as something done FOR us, leading us to faith and worship, we have to… — C. J. Mahaney Copy Share Image
My son John was just under a year old when I collapsed with a life-threatening kidney disease. The shame and guilt resulting… — Mary Manin Morrissey Copy Share Image
The villager, born humbly and bred hard, Content his wealth, and poverty his guard, In action simply just, in conscience clear, By… — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
White America is tortured by black America's failure to thrive, and all that guilt and anxiety has only gotten worse as a… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
“May the Virgin Mary free us from those marks and put an end forever to our sense of guilt. We feel guilty… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“To be fair, she called this morning. I stared at the phone. Circled it on my bed. And, eventually, it stopped ringing.… — Kelley York Copy Share Image
“Part of the problem was that I couldn't seem to get past the fact that I hadn't tried to escape from Kas.… — Sophie Hayes Copy Share Image
A sentence of death and infamy was often founded on the slight and suspicious evidence of a child or a servant: the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The only things that I can tell you is that every case I have reviewed I have been comfortable with the innocence… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Guilt? It's this mechanism we use to control people. It's an illusion. It's a kind of social control mechanism -- and it's… — Ted Bundy Copy Share Image
[Y]ou have to stop loving and pursuing Christ in order to sin. When you are pursuing love, running toward Christ, you do… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
Hereafter we all have to be redeemed. The world is pulling with a thousand strings. We sin because of indifference and negligence… — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
Food became the antidote for feelings of guilt, sadness, and anger. ... Food is a resolution to controversy; food is rescue. We… — Rose Quiello Copy Share Image
“I couldn’t very well make a special delivery to the door of the constabulary now could I? And he’d have made the… — Ella J. Fraser Copy Share Image
“The Adversary, of course, simply wants them to lay down their sins, guilt and all, and follow Him. But this type holds… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“to have poor shame tolerance. They learned in childhood to manage feelings of inadequacy by adopting unhealthy coping mechanisms to forestall or… — Bandy X Lee Copy Share Image
Luckless is the country in which the symbols of procreation are the objects of shame, while the agents of destruction are honored!… — Cyrano de Bergerac Copy Share Image
![“Part of the problem was that I couldn't seem to get past the fact that I hadn't tried to escape from Kas. Even in France, when he'd left me on my own for several days, I'd carried on working [as a prostitute] and doing all the things he'd told me to d. And although I knew that it was because of…” quote by Sophie Hayes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b16/sophie-hayes-58674_abuse_part-of-the-problem-was-that-i-couldn-t_1315864.jpg)
![“A sentence of death and infamy was often founded on the slight and suspicious evidence of a child or a servant: the guilt [of the defendant] was presumed by the judges [due to the nature of the charge], and paederasty became the crime of those to whom no crime could be imputed.” quote by Edward Gibbon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/7c7/edward-gibbon-710_children_a-sentence-of-death-and-infamy-was-often_786917.jpg)
![“[Y]ou have to stop loving and pursuing Christ in order to sin. When you are pursuing love, running toward Christ, you do not have opportunity to wonder, *Am I doing this right?* or *Did I serve enough this week?* When you are running toward Christ, you are freed up to serve, love, and give thanks…” quote by Francis Chan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d57/francis-chan-548_christ_y-ou-have-to-stop-loving-and-pursuing-ch_284124.jpg)
