Quotes About Guilt

I felt positively relieved when I had actually done something wrong. Then at least I knew what my guilty conscience was for.

He who is most guilty is most innocent; the most holy man is the one most conscious of his sin.

The truth is, not one of is innocent. We all have sins to confess.

Working moms commonly testify that they feel guilty when they are away from their children and guilty when they are not at their jobs. Devoted fathers certainly miss their children deeply, but it does not seem to be with the same gnawing, primal anxiety that often afflicts women.

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Sometimes I wish I could be the kind of person who has one-night stands, and instead of feeling guilty about it feels empowered by it. But I'm not.

A RADICAL IDEA Take a close-up look at how guilt operates in conjunction with the Upper Limit Problem. It shows up when we're feeling good (or making extra money or feeling a deeper loving connection in a relationship). When we're feeling good, we may come up against the hidden barrier of an old belief such as "I must not feel good, because fundamentally flawed people like me don't deserve it.

Unlike the millions who casually masturbate in solitude while looking at girlie pictures in Playboy and similar magazines, the massage man preferred an accomplice, an attendant lady of respectable appearance who would help him reduce the guilt and loneliness of this most lonely act of love.

I know what I did to you was so wrong, but at the time it also felt so necessary to my survival.

So, really, this was all Ramirez's fault. (What can I say? Twelve years of Catholic school had taught me how to reassign guilt with the best of them.)

Fate is an excuse, a way to remove blame and therefore guilt for poor decision making. Free choice decides the outcome of your life, not fate.

I'll hate myself later." "I hate myself now.

GUILT COULD NOT change the past. Worry could not change the future.

I let my friend die," I say slowly, softly. "That will never be the right thing.

GUILT COULD NOT change the past. Worry could not change the future. And yet, both followed Baden with relentless determination

All sin was now accumulated in one place—in him. Divinity

Why don't you call her?" "She doesn't answer," Chase said. "She may be somewhere that there's no cell phone service or she may have her phone turned off." He'd be embarrassed to say how many times he'd tried. That's what guilt—in other words, meddling—did to a man.

The argument by white and black Australians that the events of 1788 are primarily to blame for the plight of many Aborigines is far too negative. The solutions which have been proposed — massive land rights, white confessions of guilt and the granting of hereditary privileges to Aborigines — essentially look backwards. Moreover, the solutions are based on a version of history which is much less valid than its exponents believe.

the guilty think all talk is of themselves.

Even if their guilt actually does produce a good action, it will be the saddest good action you'll ever see, and it will be of no use to them because their goal is not to obey, but to feel less guilty, thus nothing about their souls will be reshaped.

As a motivation —for humans, but Christians especially— guilt is always wrong and can never move them to do anything He wants of them. Never let them realize that.

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

The Adversary, of course, simply wants them to lay down their sins, guilt and all, and follow Him. But this type holds on to their sinfulness and their guilt for it, because otherwise, they'd have no relationship with Him at all. And, of course, no relationship can be based on guilt and survive.

It seems The Adversary needs neither their guilt nor their request, but simply their return. In other words, since repentance is the process whereby guilt is turned into gratitude, He doesn't mind if they skip a step and go directly to gratitude.