Guilt Quotes · Page 37

He that commits a sin shall find the pressing guilt lie heavy on his mind.

— Thomas Creech

Punishment - The justice that the guilty deal out to those that are caught.

— Elbert Hubbard

What drives passion for getting the gospel to all people is not guilt, it's glory.

— David Platt

You will put on a dress of guilt and shoes with broken high ideals.

— Roger McGough

“Childhood abuse is the misuse of power and control which leads to wrong.”

— Patricia Dsouza

“Guilt was acid in our veins. It corroded everything. Our heart. Our lungs. Our throat.”

— Kat Zhang

Fretting about overpopulation, is a perfect guilt-free— indeed, sanctimonious— way for progressives to be racists.

— P. J. O'Rourke

“God’s guilt brings enough regret to change us. Satan’s guilt, on the other hand, brings enough regret to enslave us.”

— Thomas Nelson Publishers

Long-term, gospel-motivate d obedience can only come from the grace of what Jesus has already done, not the guilt of what we…

— Tullian Tchividjian

I have a great female support system. We encourage each other because we all face some of the same difficulties. We all…

— Kelly Rowland

“I was afraid of the consequences of my acts in the right way, beyond guilt, but it was too late. I'd already…

— Russell Banks

It's so easy for anyone to deal with their own guilt of being a middle-class white music fan by pointing to other…

— Ezra Koenig

Although I was too young to understand the theory of universal (that's to say male) guilt, I was old enough to know…

— Howard Jacobson

Whenever we cover our brother's sin, God will cover ours; whenever we tell people about our brother's guilt, God will do the…

— Poemen

Feelings of guilt dominate our work as peacemakers we cannot last long. But when we have opened each other's eyes to the…

— Henri Nouwen

Forgiveness takes the burden of hate, guilt, and bitterness off your back and, with a lighter load, you can climb higher and…

— Zig Ziglar

“We want character but without unyielding conviction; we want strong morality, but without the emotional burden of guilt or shame; we want…

— James Davison Hunter

Many Americans have lost confidence in the way our criminal courts assess guilt and innocence. Whatever one thinks of the verdicts, the…

— James Q. Wilson

Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team…

— J. C. Watts

“Changes in Relationship with others: It is especially hard to trust other people if you have been repeatedly abused, abandoned or betrayed…

— Suzette Boon

What a position of transcendent horror must that be, where the perpetrator of a great crime, till then a stranger to positive…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

“Yet each disappointment Ted felt in his wife, each incremental deflation, was accompanied by a seizure of guilt; many years ago, he…

— Jennifer Egan

“Complex PTSD consists of of six symptom clusters, which also have been described in terms of dissociation of personality. Of course, people…

— Suzette Boon

She crawled,” Ben said. There were tears in his voice. That was wrong. Ben barely even tolerated me on the best of…

— Patricia Briggs

Besides the guilt of sin and the power of sin, there is the stain of sin.

— Nathaniel Culverwell

I recognize the guilt and the sins of the father, and recognize what's built and what stems from the author.

— Jedi Mind Tricks

“Guilt, if cultivated in a Christian client, can render their Christianity worthless to themselves and others.”

— Geoffrey Wood

No guilt can ever match the guilt you feel after hurting your parents knowingly.

— Anurag Prakash Ray

“A racket is a family-authorized feeling used to replace an unacceptable and shameful feeling.”

— John Bradshaw

Men the most infamous are fond of fame, And those who fear not guilt yet start at shame.

— Charles Churchill

“Guilt is the idiot cousin of remorse,” Scythe Faraday had been fond of saying.”

— Neal Shusterman

This isn't about guilt or innocence, he says. The dinosaurs weren't morally good or bad, but they're all dead.

— Chuck Palahniuk

“You're wallowing in guilt and he's playing the martyr. It's like living in the middle of Hamlet .”

— Susan Mallery

Guilt and fear are a kind of rot. It spreads unless it's cleaned. And there's only one way to do that.

— Lee Goldberg

One fault begets another; one crime renders another necessary.

— Robert Southey

“I am against justice … whenever it is carried out by a mob.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Guilt is a totally useless emotion. It never makes anyone feel better nor does it change a situation.

— Louise Hay

“Mothers, food, love, and career - the four major guilt groups.”

— Cathy Guisewite

We do not want to see teachers teaching their white pupils about white privilege and inherited racial guilt.

— Kemi Badenoch

Better to die for my people in my own land than rule in another and suffer a lifetime of cowardly guilt.

— Darren Shan