Quotes About Guilt

Or, perhaps, the fellows are ill at ease because they didn't stick up for their friend. Perhaps they are feeling guilty for the way they once again let her victimize them into being her interrogators. Cheer up, friends, you've no reason to feel ashamed. It is all as it should be. It's not the rabbit's place to stick up for his fellow. That would have been foolish. No, you were wise, cowardly but wise.

Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose. [Lat., Imperium flagitio acquisitum nemo unquam bonis artibus exercuit.]

Did you feel guilty cursing God--you, of all people?' No,' he said. 'Because even in doing so, I was recognizing there was a greater power than me.' He paused. And that is how I began to heal.

We all want to be guilty, because guilt is power.

If you feel guilty or quietly ashamed, seek the power of the Atonement.

Only the Lord Jesus can redeem the soul that is steeped in guilt and shame. This baggage weighs us down until we accept Jesus' gift-the gift that liberates souls from sin's power.

The violence of war admits no distinction; the lance, that is lifted at guilt and power, will sometimes fall on innocence and gentleness.

Power without guilt, love without doubt.

Ghosts are just our minds telling us that subconsciously we feel guilty about something we should have done, would have done, but never took the time!

The fastest way to get lost is to go on a guilt trip!

To me, a wicked man who is also eloquent seems the most guilty of them all. He'll cut your throat as bold as brass, because he can dress up murder in handsome words.

Father of Light! great God of Heaven! Hear'st thou the accents of despair? Can guilt like man's be e'er forgiven? Can vice atone for crimes by prayer.

Even before my parents died, I felt all the responsibility to my family. I don't know why. In any business, any relationship, if something goes wrong, I feel I am to blame. It's something inside me.

La conciencia evita cometer atrocidades. Pero las atrocidades cometidas regularmente anulan la conciencia.

To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations.

where does this new personality come in?" The psychiatrist turned back to her. "Well, again, it's just a guess," he said, "but assuming that it is conversion hysteria stemming from guilt, then the second personality is simply the agent who handles the punishing. If Regan herself were to do it, that would mean she would recognize her guilt. But she wants to escape that recognition. Therefore, a second personality.

Amazing- the years of political correctness pumped out of our colleges became an education of national guilt.

Every Sunday when I was little," Gus said. "My parents insisted I pray for forgiveness for all the things you talked me into doing. But this isn't from the Bible. It's from Vampire Tales number two." "That would be one of your lesser-known holy books.

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.

They whose guilt within their bosom lies, imagine every eye beholds their blame.

A wicked conscience mouldeth goblins swift as frenzy thoughts.

Guiltiness will speak, though tongues were out of use

The guilt being great, the fear doth still exceed.

The mind of guilt is full of scorpions.