“We all know the feeling of being torn away from those we love most because of sin and guilt.” — Jim C. Cunningham Copy Share Image
Compulsion is a behaviour that short-circuits you out of feeling ashamed, and then you feel triple-ashamed afterwards. — Arca Copy Share Image
“The way it works in real life is that guilt is proportionate. In other words, there are degrees of guilt.” — Lisa Scottoline Copy Share Image
“You see, sex for Jews is not such a terrible sin. It's just one more physical sport we're gonna stink at.” — Jaffe Cohen Copy Share Image
A dirty conscience should not be ignored, but rather investigated. False guilt is an indication of a faulty belief. — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
“I don't think anyone could write a completely honest autobiography. I am sure no one could bear to read it: My Past… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
I get up and pace the room, as if I can leave my guilt behind me. But it tracks me as I… — Rosamund Lupton Copy Share Image
If the next time our governments propose to make war on a helpless civilian population we were to uncover our grief and… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Where does guilt and punishment lie, and are we not more expressive over remorse or guilt when other people see the badness… — Joel Edgerton Copy Share Image
But victimhood was seductive, a release from responsibility and caring. Fear would be transmuted into weary resignation; failure would no longer generate… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Key Learning: Shame derives its power from being unspeakable. That’s why it loves perfectionists—we’re so easy to keep quiet. If” — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
People feel guilty. And guilt is stymieing. Guilt immobilizes. Guilt closes the air ducts and the veins, and makes people ignorant. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
God Who delivers us from the guilt of sin through faith in Jesus Christ, is able to deliver the believer from the… — J. Edwin Orr Copy Share Image
Suicide is a particularly awful way to die: the mental suffering leading up to it is usually prolonged, intense and unpalliated. There… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
I think this is one of the problems that we're having in Indigenous affairs. Why we're not confronting the issues that are… — Warren Mundine Copy Share Image
The true liberation of eroticism lies in accepting the fact that there are a million facets to it, a million forms of… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“Much later that night, as he meditated in forgiveness of the day, he wondered at himself. Had not he laughed at cruelty,… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
The parallel between antifeminism and race prejudice is striking. The same underlying motives appear to be at work, namely fear, jealousy, feelings… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
For guilt if you do blame yourself; then there may be a way to make amends; if so, it may be wise… — DrAnil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
“What a perfectionistic system creates is a “how to get it right” behavioral script. In such a script one is taught how… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
The core distortion of the War on Terror under both Bush and Obama is the Orwellian practice of equating government accusations of… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image