Guilt Quotes - Page 6

Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does.

Marriage may restrict your activity, but it increases your pleasure. It permits sex without shame, fear, or guilt.

Move forward with no second-guessing, no guilt trips, no hesitation. Your purpose is to recreate yourself anew in each moment.

Whoever shall now contend that it is unjust to put heretics and blasphemers to death will knowingly and willingly incur their very guilt.

Sin is too great an evil for man to meddle with. His attempts to remove it do but increase it, and his endeavours to approach God in spite of it aggravate his guilt.

With the Fall all became abnormal. It is not just that the individual is separated from God by his true moral guilt, but each of us is not what God made us to be. Beyond each of us as individuals, human relationships are not what God meant them to be. And beyond that, nature is abnormal - the whole cause-and-effect significant history is now abnormal. To say it another way: there is much in history now which should not be.

Our huffing and puffing to impress God, our scrambling for brownie points, our thrashing about trying to fix ourselves while hiding our pettiness and wallowing in guilt are nauseating to God and are a flat denial of the gospel of grace.

I walk around feeling a sort of existential guilt all the time; and honestly for me this house is a way of feeling less guilty about the universe. - Julia Louis

Each snowflake in an avalanche pleads not guilty.

Guilt is anger directed at ourselves - at what we did or did not do. Resentment is anger directed at others - at what they did or did not do.

we are human beings, we are born full of guilt; we feel terrified when happiness becomes a real possibility.

When it comes to gossip, I have to readily admit men are as guilty as women.

I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier?

Guilt is the price we pay willingly for doing what we are going to do anyway.

Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.

...every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.

Once you become a mother, you always have a guilt trip. You always try to do the best, but you feel you can always be better.

I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt.

If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.

A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.

If we have anything kind to say, any tender sentiment to express, we feel a sense of shame.

The fool who repeats again and again: "I am bound, I am bound," remains in bondage. He who repeats day and night: "I am a sinner, I am a sinner," becomes a sinner indeed.

It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.

The thing is, whenever I see Hillary Clinton, I feel like I have to vote for her. She makes me feel guilty because I feel like I should vote for her so that she'll feel better about herself because she'd been in such a bad marriage.

I don't feel guilt. Whatever I wish to do, I do.