Guilt Quotes - Page 37

• Faith is illuminative, not operative; it does not force obedience, though it increases responsibility; it heightens guilt, but it does not prevent sin. The will is the source of action.

  John Henry Newman

  Responsibility, Doe, Action

  John Henry Newman (1850). “Lectures of certain difficulties felt by anglicans in submitting to the Catholic Church”, p.236

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• Jews can't serve on juries because they insist they're guilty.

  Cathy Ladman

  Women, Jury, Jew

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• INDISCRETION, n. The guilt of woman.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.105, 谷月社

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• ACCUSE, v.t. To affirm another's guilt or unworth; most commonly as a justification of ourselves for having wronged him.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Justification, Wronged

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.8, 谷月社

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• Aristocrats: n. fellows that wear downy hats and clean shirts - guilty of education and suspected of bank accounts.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Hats, Clean, Shirts

  Ambrose Bierce (1911). “The collected works”

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• Their guilt made me eloquent because I was not its victim.

  Albert Camus

  Victim, Made, Eloquent

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.56, Vintage

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• Drop guilt! - because to be guilty is to live in hell. Not being guilty, you will have the freshness of dewdrops in the early morning sun, you will have the freshness of lotus petals in the lake, you will have the freshness of the stars in the night. Once guilt disappears you will have a totally different kind of life, luminous and radiant. You will have a dance to your feet and your heart will be singing a thousand and one songs.

  Rajneesh

  Song, Morning, Stars

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• My creativity and my political work are linked. I don't do this work out of guilt or out of responsibility.

  Holly Near

  Responsibility, Creativity, Work Out

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• The guilt of newborns is immense.

  Georg Trakl

  Immense

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• The price that one pays for refusing to act on the truth as one sees it, is to be led to believe untruth to avoid guilt.

  Kenneth Lee Pike

  Believe, Pay, Untruth

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• Which to this day is a source of enormous guilt, because I left with three classes to go in the business school to sign a contract with 20th Century Fox.

  Tom Selleck

  School, Class, Three

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• But I don't believe in guilt by association.

  Marion Jones

  Believe, Association, Don't Believe

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• With a parent, it's always guilt. You want to be there, but you kind of also want to be here.

  Heather Locklear

  Parent, Want, Kind

  "Heather Locklear: What I've Learned" By Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• I think every parent, every generation has wanted their children to do better and have a higher standard of living. But I think there's too much guilt.

  Phil McGraw

  Children, Thinking, Parent

  "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. December 26, 2004.

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• Men are that they might have joy . . . not guilt trips.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Men, Joy, Might

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• This is what I mean by becoming religious: no guilt, no ego, no trip of any kind...just being herenow...being with the trees and the birds and the rivers and the mountains and the stars.

  Rajneesh

  Religious, Stars, Mean

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• Your sense of guilt will linger. It will always be part of you. but sharing it, allowing people to love you anyway, will do you the world of good. Secrets need an outlet if they are not to fester and become an unbearable burden.

  Mary Balogh

  Love You, People, Secret

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• The (capital punishment) controversy passes the anarch by. For him, the linking of death and punishment is absurd. In this respect, he is closer to the wrongdoer than to the judge, for the high-ranking culprit who is condemned to death is not prepared to acknowledge his sentence as atonement; rather, he sees his guilt in his own inadequacy. Thus, he recognizes himself not as a moral but as a tragic person.

  Ernst Junger

  Punishment, Judging, Ranking

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• We need to build downtime into our lives, so that we can have solitude without feeling overcome with guilt.

  Melody Beattie

  Solitude, Feelings, Overcoming

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• 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.

  Billy Graham

  Jesus, Soul, Baggage

  Billy Graham (2013). “The Reason for My Hope: Salvation”, p.45, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Those who will repent and forsake sin will find that His merciful arm is outstretched still. Those who listen to and heed His words and the words of His chosen servants will find peace and understanding even in the midst of great heartache and sorrow. The result of His sacrifice is to free us from the effects of sin, that all may have guilt erased and feel hope.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Sacrifice, Heartache, Understanding

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• Long-term, gospel-motivate d obedience can only come from the grace of what Jesus has already done, not the guilt of what we must do.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Jesus, Long, Grace

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• His intelligence only exacerbated the guilt Kugel felt for bringing him into the world. It was one thing to have condemned a child to life, that was criminal enough, but life was a sentence more easily served by fools.

  Shalom Auslander

  Children, Criminals, World

  Shalom Auslander (2012). “Hope: A Tragedy: A Novel”, p.201, Penguin

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• Let this be your wall of brass, to have nothing on your conscience, no guilt to make you turn pale.

  Horace

  Wall, Pale, Brass

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• Most of us have spent our lives caught up in plans, expectations, ambitions for the future; in regrets, guilt or shame about the past. To come into the present is to stop the war.

  Jack Kornfield

  Regret, War, Ambition

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