Guilt Quotes - Page 31

• One of my defining beliefs is that Jesus Christ has taken all of my guilt before God, and that he has been raised from the dead. That gives incredible hope and meaning to every day of my life - that nothing done in this world is wasted when it's done for him and his glory, and that there will be a day of justice and reward for the entire world.

  Joshua Harris

  Jesus, Taken, Giving

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• No punishment is so terrible as prosperous guilt.

  William Ellery Channing

  Punishment, Terrible, Prosperous

  William Ellery Channing (1835). “Slavery”, p.60

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• Where, where for shelter shall the guilty fly, When consternation turns the good man pale?

  Edward Young

  Men, Good Man, Shelter

  Edward Young (1813). “The poetical works of Edward Young. Collated with the best eds.: by T. Park”

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• Let no man trust the first false step of guilt; it hangs upon a precipice, whose steep descent in last perdition ends.

  Edward Young

  Men, Lasts, Firsts

  Edward Young (1730). “Busiris, King of Egypt. A tragedy, etc”, p.42

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• A land of levity is a land of guilt.

  Edward Young

  Land, Levity

  Edward Young, Charles Edward DE COETLOGON (1793). “Night thoughts on life death and immortality ... to which are added the life of the author and a paraphrase on part of the Book of Job”, p.155

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

  Edward Young

  Ungrateful, May, Virtue

  Edward Young (1792). “The works of the author of the night-thoughts”, p.259

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• 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.

  Lord Byron

  Prayer, Father, Men

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.148, Delphi Classics

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• To what gulfs A single deviation from the track Of human duties leads even those who claim The homage of mankind as their born due, And find it, till they forfeit it themselves!

  Lord Byron

  Track, Forfeit, Claims

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.1373, Delphi Classics

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• Neither side is guiltless if its adversary is appointed judge.

  Lucan

  Judging, Sides, Ifs

  "Pharsalia", VII. 263 in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 345-346), 1922.

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• I always take blushing either for a sign of guilt, or of ill breeding.

  William Congreve

  Breeding, Blushing, Ill

  'The Way of the World' (1700) act 1, sc. 9

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• All our salvation consists in the manifestation of the nature, life and spirit of Jesus Christ in our inward new man. This alone is Christian redemption, this alone delivers from the guilt and power of sin, this alone redeems and renews.

  William Law

  Christian, Jesus, Men

  William Law (1749). “I. The spirit of prayer; or, the soul rising out of the vanity of time, into the riches of eternity. In two parts ; 7,II. The way to divine knowledge; being several dialogues between Humanus, Academicus, Rusticus, and Theophilus”, p.24

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• A tardy vengeance shares the tyrant's guilt.

  Edward Young

  Tyrants, Vengeance, Share

  Edward Young (1730). “Busiris, King of Egypt. A tragedy, etc”, p.17

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• Joys season'd high, and tasting strong of guilt.

  Edward Young

  Strong, Joy, Tasting

  Edward Young, Charles Edward DE COETLOGON (1793). “Night thoughts on life death and immortality ... to which are added the life of the author and a paraphrase on part of the Book of Job”, p.234

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• The hands of the guilty don't necessarily tremble; only in stories does a dropped glass betray agitation. Tension is more often shown in the studied action.

  Graham Greene

  Glasses, Hands, Agitation

  Graham Greene (1971). “Triple pursuit: a Graham Greene omnibus”, Viking Pr

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• Belief in Some One's right to punish you is the fate of all children in Judaic-Christian culture. But nowhere else, perhaps, have the rich seed-beds of Western homes found such a growing climate for guilt as is produced in the South by the combination of a warm moist evangelism and racial segregation.

  Lillian Smith

  Christian, Children, Home

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• Rather than being able to have a healthy relationship with our own sexual imagination, we're driven into some dark corners by shame and embarrassment and guilt, and those dark corners breed all sorts of monsters.

  Alan Moore

  Dark, Imagination, Healthy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Catholics have guilt and Jews have guilt, fine. But mothers can trump them all.

  Diane Lane

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Catholic

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• Most of us in the baby-boom generation were raised by full-time mothers. Even as recently as 14 years ago, 6 out of 10 mothers with babies were staying at home. Today that is totally reversed. Does that mean we love our children less than our mothers loved us? No, but it certainly causes a lot of guilt trips.

  Jane Pauley

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Baby

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• I often have a theme in mind when I'm starting. I know that I want everything to be in a world of, say, evolution, or guilt.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Mind, World, Want

  "'Synecdoche, New York' Director Charlie Kaufman". Interview with Howard Feinstein, www.indiewire.com. October 24, 2008.

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• I think there's a tremendous amount of guilt that goes on between mothers and daughters, no matter how good or bad their relationships are. It kills girls inside when they think they're letting their mothers down.

  Drew Barrymore

  Girl, Daughter, Mother

  Interview with Jessica Henderson, www.marieclaire.com. September 9, 2009.

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• God-sent ministry, heeded and bowed to, leads to enlargement and blessing; but the Spirit's testimony rejected increases the guilt of him who hardens himself against it, and makes his condition far worse than before. It is ever the case that light refused makes the darkness all the deeper. Hence the need of a tender conscience, quick to respond to every word from God.

  Henry Allen Ironside

  Blessing, Light, Darkness

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• There are some things we should feel guilty about, but the guilt feelings should attach to the deed, not to the doer.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Feelings, Deeds, Doers

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• It is also plausible that those movements with the greatest inner contradiction and between profession and practice - that is to say with a strong feeling of guilt - are likely to be the most fervent in imposing their faith on others.

  Eric Hoffer

  Strong, Practice, Feelings

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

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• If we wish to wash our hands of the Jews blasphemy and not share in their guilt, we have to part company with them. They must be driven from our country.

  Martin Luther

  Country, Hands, Wish

  Martin Luther “On the Jews & Their Lies”, Gottfried & Fritz

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• Being natural and matter-of-fact about nudity prevents your children from developing an attitude of shame and guilt about the human body.

  Lee Salk

  Attitude, Children, Nudists

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