Quotes About Guilt

I [Marley's Ghost] wear the chain I forged in life.

You are fettered," said Scrooge, trembling. "Tell me why?" "I wear the chain I forged in life," replied the Ghost. "I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.

So wicked do destruction and secrecy appear to honest minds, that Mr Lorry and Miss Pross, while engaged in the commission of their deed and in the removal of its traces, almost felt, and almost looked, like accomplices in a horrible crime.

It wasn't the wine,' murmured Mr. Snodgrass, in a broken voice. 'It was the salmon.' (Somehow or other, it never is the wine, in these cases.)

a law of the Suspected, which struck away all security for liberty or life, and delivered over any good and innocent person to any bad and guilty one; prisons gorged with people who had committed no offence, and could obtain no hearing;

Marley's Ghost bothered him exceedingly.

Blameless as I was, and knew that I was, in reference to any wrong she could possibly suspect me of, I shrunk before her strange eyes, quite unable to endure their hungry lustre.

The terrors that had assailed me whenever Mrs. Joe had gone near the pantry, or out of the room, were only to be equalled by the remorse with which my mind dwelt on what my hands had done.

No rest, no peace. Incessant torture of remorse.

If he was only sorry, he wouldn't look at me as he does. I am only sorry, and it makes me feel kinder.

Conscience is a dreadful thing when it accuses man or boy; but when, in the case of a boy, that secret burden co-operates with another secret burden down the leg of his trousers, it is (as I can testify) a great punishment.

Si en una situación ha confiado en el Señor lo mejor que ha podido, haga a un lado cualquier culpa que sienta. Esa es una culpa falsa.

make amends to those you've hurt, and forgive anyone who has wounded you. If He does, then obey Him immediately. But then move on. Don't continue to beat yourself up over something that God has forgiven. True, you may still have to live with consequences related to your choices. But the Father doesn't want you to live with unresolved guilt, shame, or regret. Seek Him and be free.

He tried to name which of the deadly seven might apply, and when he failed he decided to append an eighth, regret.

When it comes to hiding porn, every man is a CIA agent.

The better a pie tastes, the worse it is for you.

...psycho-analysis — that is... confession without absolution.

There is no Scorpion like a guilty mind— No sting so terrible as he must bear Whose conscience still reproves.

there is no man, however wise, who has not at some time in his youth said or done things that are so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly expunge them from his memory if he could. In years to come, I will not be haunted by the guilt of all the good I didn't do.

Our crimes always catch up with us. - Alfred Pennyworth

Remember: King Kong died for your sins.

Satan causes us to wallow in unnamed guilt, but God's conviction is focused and meant to lead us to restoration.

Walk into any church, and you will see people swimming in a sea of emotions (everything from shame and guilt to love and ecstasy). That may be the reason some people think that the more emotional they are, the more spiritual they are. But, as we will explore later in the book, undiluted spirituality has little to do with emotions, and what little it does have has more to do with emotional growth than feelings of elation.

You'd never killed anyone. Then you had.