Quotes About Guilt

It is like confessing to a murder.

Parenting is a giant responsibility forever, so we need to learn how to drop the guilt and go easy on ourselves when we mess up.

Sin is shameful action.

Sin builds up. Forgiveness cleans up.

The 6 greatest detriments to our health, happiness, and ultimate success: Regret, Worry, Guilt, Blame, Gossip, & ResentmentRemoving just one can change your life.

By justification we are saved from the guilt of sin…by sanctification we are saved from the power and root of sin

Grace gives us the power to live, and mercy keeps us free from guilt, condemnation, and shame.

The scapegoat has always had the mysterious power of unleashing man's ferocious pleasure in torturing, corrupting, and befouling.

It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.

No human being is entirely innocent

Things said or done long years ago,Or things I did not do or sayBut thought that I might say or do,Weigh me down, and not a dayBut something is recalled,My conscience or my vanity appalled.

Guilt is ever at a loss, and confusion waits upon it.

Glory built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.

My sin and judgment are alike peculiar. I am a castaway, deserted and condemned.

Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.

God hath yoked to guilt her pale tormentor,--misery.

Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase Are fruits of innocence and blessedness.

No evil is intolerable but a guilty conscience.

There is no mountain so heavy as the guilt of the least sin is to an awakened conscience.

Thou art a dead man if thou think to answer thy sin with proportionable sorrow; thou wilt soon be above thy depth, and quackle[12] thyself with thy own tears, but never get over the least sin thou committedst.

O guilt is an embit tering thing! It keeps the soul in a continual fear of hearing ill news from heaven; and a soul in fear is not in case to relish the sweetness of a mercy.

Far different is the power of our sovereignty. It can interfere with no one's faith, prescribe forms of worship for no one's observance, inflict no punishment but after well-ascertained guilt, the result of investigation under rules prescribed by the Constitution itself.

Dostoevsky's...typically Russian emphasis on man as a collective being leads logically to his belief in our all-guilt; we are, again, in some mysterious manner, guilty of everybody's sins...Our own deeds, good or bad, are nothing but pebbles in the river of life that will be carried on and on until they somehow touch our remotest fellow man.

He'd never slept with Molly before. Before, the bed had been a place of brief coming together and of leaving. It felt god to lie beside her with the early sun beyond the window and the cabin full of qiet. It was peaceful and healing to be with her and not be cut apart by guilt.