Quotes About Guilt

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

The advent of the Christian God, as the maximum god attained so far, was therefore accompanied by the maximum feeling of guilty indebtedness on earth.

In God's pattern of justice, He takes the risk of the guilty going free but not the innocent being punished.

To many, God is not someone you know but something you try to get off your back.

The bad news that we are all guilty is met with the best news that God loves and forgives guilty people.

Of all deadly sins, this is the most deadly, namely, that any one should think he is not guilty of a damnable and deadly sin before God.

Let's just say you may regret that second piece of cake. Oh my God. Regret cake? Whatever was about to happen must be truly evil.

I was raised with fear of God, guilt over Jesus, and terror of the Devil.

"I shouldn't have done that," I said. That was when I kissed him again. May God forgive me for this and all these things I've done.

God, I am freaking out. Maybe he doesn't know. Maybe I just look guilty of something and he's picking up on that.

Guilt is always a good thing. If I kick you in the groin right now and don't feel guilty about it there's something wrong with me. Something's wrong with my conscience.

I am not racked with self-loathing. Some issues of guilt and shame, but I'm a pretty good guy.

It's not a good feeling--knowing that you profoundly deserve the title of monster. It's better to be kind than to feel guilty.

Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.

Guilty as hell. Free as a bird. America is a great country.

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

Sometimes all you need is one person with a guilty conscience to come forward and do the right thing. Often, the miracle you need resides inside of yourself, when you humbly ask for forgiveness.

The hardest thing about depression is that it is addictive. It begins to feel uncomfortable not to be depressed. You feel guilty for feeling happy.

I think the key to happiness is allowing ourselves to not feel bad or guilty for feeling it, and letting it be contagious. And to not be dependent on other people to create your own happiness.

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

It has ever been my fate to give pain to those whose happiness I should have promoted.

I wanted color. I wanted to soar with happiness even if it meant dealing with the weight of fear and guilt, too. I wanted to live.

Sin is the preclusion of self-worth.

There are days when I struggle with wanting to be a full-time, stay-at-home mom, and feeling guilty about that because I work.