Guilt is a totally useless emotion. It never makes anyone feel better nor does it change a situation. — Louise Hay Copy Share Image
I don't believe in collective guilt. The children of killers are not killers, but children. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
It is not the criminal things which are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and shameful. — Henri Rousseau Copy Share Image
The right combination of guilt and machismo has sent many a fool out into the jungle when he should have stayed home. — Jimmy Buffett Copy Share Image
Guilt rarely results in positive behavior. But gratitude? Great things flow from a heart of gratitude. — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed. — Nathaniel Parker Willis Copy Share Image
“Shame is the landfill emotion. It's not organic, like joy. It was dumped there by somebody else.” — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
Did we risk our lives to defend a just society, where guilt must be proven and not assumed? Or are we no… — Julie Berry Copy Share Image
Uncovering secrets is apocalyptic in the simple sense (the Greek root means ‘an uncovering’). In this case, it lifts the shame covers.… — Lewis Hyde Copy Share Image
“Shame is embarrassment multiplied against itself until it dies under it’s own weight and we with it. Forgiveness is freedom multiplied against… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“I can just conceive of the pit of despair, the notion of being powerless and the essence of existence through it entirely” — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
It is a hard thing to let go of mistakes we've made and sins. God wants us to do that because He… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
If it is impossible to judge merit and guilt in the field of natural science, then it is not possible in any… — Justus von Liebig Copy Share Image
“That's the thing about guilt," his father said. "It always seems like there's enough to go around. The only ones who don't… — Cinda Williams Chima Copy Share Image
We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. I have heard others, and I have heard myself, recounting cruelties and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most players who play tennis love the game. But I think you also have to respect it. You want to do everything… — Andy Roddick Copy Share Image
One of my defining beliefs is that Jesus Christ has taken all of my guilt before God, and that he has been… — Joshua Harris Copy Share Image
White Privilege is the other side of racism. Unless we name it, we are in danger of wallowing in guilt or moral… — Paula Rothenberg Copy Share Image
“Guilt isn't in cat vocabulary. They never suffer remorse for eating too much, sleeping too long or hogging the warmest cushion in… — Helen Brown Copy Share Image
The enormous success of 2009's 'The Blind Side,' in which Sandra Bullock makes a black teenager one of the family, demonstrates that… — Wesley Morris Copy Share Image
“The opposite of forgiveness is judgment, and judgment always creates separation and guilt. Judgment will evoke a sense of guilt in the… — Shanti Christo Foundation Copy Share Image
“Let's say that the consensus is that our species, being the higher primates, Homo Sapiens, has been on the planet for at… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
