Quotes About Guilt

Jesus did not receive baptism as a confession of guilt on His own account. He identified Himself with sinners, taking the steps that we are to take, and doing the work that we must do. His life of suffering and patient endurance after His baptism was also an example to us.

Hell is the special pain that dwells in that loss which you yourself have caused

There's no such thing as an original sin.

The only two things that motivate me and that matter to me are revenge and guilt.

The more one is obsessed with God, the less one is innocent. Nobody bothered about him in paradise. The fall brought about this divine torture. It's not possible to be conscious of divinity without guilt. Thus God is rarely to be found in an innocent soul.

To win the guilty kiss of a saint, I'd welcome the plague as a blessing.

P?catul este expresia religioas? a remu?c?rii.

Cum de exist? oameni care mai pot respira dupa ce au f?cut pe al?ii neferici?i?

To be a Raskolnikov — without the excuse of murder.

I do not forgive myself for being born. It is as if, creeping into this world, I had profaned a mystery, betrayed some momentous pledge, committed a fault of nameless gravity.

For at any price we must keep those who have too clear a conscience from living and dying in peace.

It is said that we do not make the guilty party suffer for the sake of suffering; it is nonetheless true that we find it right that he should suffer.

That turned me into a kind of patchy guy. But I have my life, I'm living it. It's twisted, exhausting, uncertain, and full of guilt, but nonetheless, there's something there. An that something is always greater than these emotions of mine.

Pero mi vida existe, con toda certeza. Deformada, exhausta, débil, llena de complejos de culpa, pero existe. Y esto es algo maravilloso que, en cualquier momento, sobrepasa mis emociones

But I have my life, I'm living it. It's twisted, exhausting, uncertain, and full of guilt, but nonetheless, there's something there.

A guilty system recognizes no innocents.

Summoned, one shuffles guiltily into the department of trivia.

Guilt is the only affect I know of that does not diminish with time.

the Sunshine and Shadow design. The Amish A Devoted Christian's Prayer Book contained the prayer, "We pray, O Holy Father, that we might leave behind the night of sin and guilt and ever walk in the shining light of Thy wondrous grace, and cast off the works of darkness, put on the armor of light, and walk honestly as in the day.

I began to feel frightened and depressed, and thought, 'This is my punishment for being an adulteress.' Then I remembered I was even poorer before I was one, so perhaps it was a punishment for something I had forgotten.

Everyone in the world is guilty of something.

Right or not, a mother always blamed herself when something went wrong.

Medieval justice was scrupulous about holding proper trials and careful not to sentence without proof of guilt, but it achieved proof by confession rather than evidence, and confession was routinely obtained by torture.

For each man that shall be damned shall be damned by his own guilt, and each man that is saved shall be saved by his own merit." Unperceived, here was the start of the modern world. When