Quotes About Guilt

I've got enough guilt to start my own religion.

Shame is one of the greatest aphrodisiacs in the world, anyway, built into religion.

I'm an Episcopal, which is Catholic Lite. It's like same religion, half the guilt.

There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of Puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the man with a superior capacity for happiness.

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.

His clear conscience is a result of a poor memory.

What is at the base of shame or guilt? It is the consciousness of an imbalance, or of an action in the past that has caused, and probably continues to cause, suffering.

I love Religion it's the cheapest place to buy Guilt, Fear, Sin and Doubt

Gratitude, not guilt, as motivation is always His starting point, thus guilt as a motivation leads nowhere.

There is nothing spiritual about a marriage that uses guilt, blame, shame or religious manipulations to keep a relationship together.

Adjectives are my guitly pleasure.

He that's ungrateful, has no guilt but one; All other crimes may pass for virtues in him.

Some go to Church, proud humbly to repent, And come back much more guilty than they went: One way they look, another way they steer, Pray to the Gods; but would have Mortals hear; And when their sins they set sincerely down, They'll find that their Religion has been one.

A tardy vengeance shares the tyrant's guilt.

Sin is its own punishment, devouring you from the inside.

Pensate che l'amore sia una colpa?" le disse. Lei non rispose, e lui le chiese ancora: "Oppure non vi ponete questo interrogativo, perché non temete il castigo del Buddha?" [...] "Non c'è pericolo che diventi un incendio?" disse la donna con un'espressione scherzosa negli occhi vivaci. "Certo che diventerà un incendio, ogni vero amore lo diventa", rispose con audacia l'impulsivo Haruie.

In a big city, there are always fires somewhere. And there are always crimes somewhere, too. God, despairing of burning away crime with fire , perhaps distributed crime and fire in equal quantities. Thus crime is never consumed by fire, while innocence can be burned up. That's why insurance companies prosper. My guilt, however--in order that it might become a pure thing immune to fire, must not my innocence first pass through the fire?

In this situation however, I have to wonder...which of us is the sinner?

I was the guy at the end of the bar all hunched up and trying to disappear into his overcoat. Flattened hat on worn bar top. Hank of hair dangling over the face of a born lemon-sucker. They were all my breed. My people. Drinking alone or in even lonelier pairs. The guilty. The condemned. The

With integrity, you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide. With integrity, you will do the right thing, so you will have no guilt.

With integrity, you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide. With integrity, you will do the right thing, so you will have no guilt. With fear and guilt removed, you are free to be and do your best.

Guilt can be a very destructive emotion.

Providing adequate representation even for defendants who appear guilty is the best way to protect those who are not.