Guilty Quotes - Page 24

• The solution to staying on the right side of the fine line between using and abusing grace is repentance. The road to repentance is godly sorrow (2 Corinthians 7:10). Godly sorrow is developed when we focus on the true nature of sin as an offense against God rather than something that makes us feel guilty.

  Jerry Bridges

  Godly, Focus, Grace

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• 800,000 Armenian deportees were actually killed... by holding the guilty accountable the government is intent on cleansing the bloody past.

  Djemal Pasha

  Past, Government, Cleansing

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• ... Herbert said of himself, with his eyes fixed on the fire, that he thought he must have committed a felony and forgotten the details of it, he felt so dejected and guilty.

  Charles Dickens

  Character, Eye, Fire

  Charles Dickens (1873). “Tale of Two Cities”, p.404

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• But Rosa soon made the discovery that Miss Twinkleton didn't read fairly. She cut the love-scenes, interpolated passages in praise of female celibacy, and was guilty of other glaring pious frauds.

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Humorous, Cutting

  Charles Dickens (1871). “The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Other Pieces”, p.143

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• I'm not skilled enough to explain properly how we feel. Not only me, but I'm sure Tony and Tim and Pop feel the same way. Last year was a tough one for all of us. We felt like we had the trophy, that we were touching it, and it slipped away. We all felt guilty. We got to this spot, and we didn't let it go.

  Manu Ginobili

  Nba Championships, Years, Nba Finals

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• Jesus doesn't care if you feel guilty. Jesus wants you to change.

  Sarah Miles

  Jesus, Care, Want

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• Don't feel guilty if you don't immediately love your stepchildren as you do your own, or as much as you think you should. Everyoneneeds time to adjust to the new family, adults included. There is no such thing as an "instant parent."
  Actually, no concrete object lies outside of the poetic sphere as long as the poet knows how to use the object properly.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Lying, Love You, Thinking

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• And if I'm guilty of having gratuitous sex, then I'm also guilty of having gratuitous violence, and gratuitous feasting, and gratuitous description of clothes, and gratuitous heraldry, because very little of this is necessary to advance the plot. But my philosophy is that plot advancement is not what the experience of reading fiction is about. If all we care about is advancing the plot, why read novels? We can just read Cliffs Notes.

  George R. R. Martin

  Sex, Philosophy, Reading

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• Unless a man has the talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden. We join a mass movement to escape from individual responsibility, or, in the words of an ardent young Nazi, to be free from freedom. It was not sheer hypocrisy when the rank-and-file Nazis declared themselves not guilty of all the enormities they had committed. They considered themselves cheated and maligned when made to shoulder responsibility for obeying orders. Had they not joined the Nazi movement in order to be free from responsibility?

  Eric Hoffer

  Responsibility, Men, Order

  "The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements". Book by Eric Hoffer. Section 26, 1951.

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• But I will plead not guilty until death. I will plead not guilty until there is proof to the contrary.

  Augustin Misago

  Scary, Proof, Contrary

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• Funding for faith-based charities should] be judged based on performance and results - not religion. Now, if our sin is that our religion can produce the results, then we plead guilty.

  Eugene Rivers

  Scary, Charity, Sin

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• Everybody have equal rights to a life of full flourishing. Philosophy slowly, slowly has given us arguments saying, look, you already committed to your own life flourishing, and you're being inconsistent if you don't expand it. So philosophy often works in trying to show us that there's an inner incoherence in our points of view. We're all committed to one thing when it comes to us and our own kind, but we're not willing to expand it and we're guilty of inconsistency.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Philosophy, Rights, Views

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• All I can do is say I smell a rat. I don't know where it is or what kind of rat it is, but as an artist, I can express how. But I couldn't responsibly stand up and tell people which way to go, because then I'm just as guilty as the people who are telling everybody else what to do and where to go.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Artist, Smell, People

  "Maynard James Keenan". Interview with The A.V. Club, music.avclub.com. November 30, 2006.

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• Men there are, who having quite done with the world, all its merely worldly contents are become so far indifferent, that they carelittle of what mere worldly imprudence they may be guilty.

  Herman Melville

  Men, World, May

  Herman Melville (2016). “Pierre; or The Ambiguities”, p.283, Herman Melville

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• In your ordered verdict of guilty, you have trampled under foot every vital principle of our government. My natural rights, my civil rights, my political rights, my judicial rights are all alike ignored. Robbed of the fundamental privilege of citizenship, I am degraded from the status of a citizen to that of a subject; and not only myself individually, but all of my sex, are, by your honor's verdict, doomed to political subjection under this, so-called, form of government.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Sex, Rights, Government

  "An Account of the Proceedings on the Trial of Susan B. Anthony, on the Charge of Illegal Voting: At the Presidential Election in Nov., 1872" by Susan B. Anthony, Rochester N.Y.: Daily democrat & chronicle book print, 1874.

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• The intimacy of love absolves us of our guilty separateness.

  Mason Cooley

  Intimacy, Separateness

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• To be justified means more than to be declared "not guilty." It actually means to be declared righteous before God. It means God has imputed or charged the guilt of our sin to His Son, Jesus Christ, and has imputed or credited Christ's righteousness to us.

  Jerry Bridges

  Jesus, Mean, Son

  Jerry Bridges (2017). “Transforming Grace”, p.39, NavPress

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• An innocent man, if accused, can be acquitted; a guilty man, unless accused, cannot be condemned. It is, however, more advantageous to absolve an innocent than not to prosecute a guilty man.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Innocent Man, Guilt

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• The difference between guilt and shame is very clear--in theory. We feel guilty for what we do. We feel shame for what we are. A person feels guilt because he did something wrong. A person feels shame because he is something wrong. We may feel guilty because we lied to our mother. We may feel shame because we are not the person our mother wanted us to be.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Mother, Lying, Differences

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• A real man doesn't have to run from his mother, and may even have to face the reality that no great deed is going to be great enough for him to ransom himself completely, and he may always be in his mother's debt. If he understands that . . . he won't have to feel guilty, and he won't have to please her completely. He can go ahead and be nice to her and let her be part of his life.

  Frank Pittman

  Mother, Running, Real

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• There are things about quitting the smoking habit for which nobody prepares you. Did I have any idea that I would indulge in long, drooling-nay, dribbling-lascivious dreams in which I was still wreathed in fragrant blue fumes? I would wake with the complete and guilty conviction that I had sinned in word and deed while I was asleep.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Dream, Blue, Ideas

  Christopher Hitchens (2015). “And Yet...: Essays”, p.184, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• The thriller is the cardinal twentieth-century form. All it, like the twentieth century, wants to know is: Who's Guilty?

  Brigid Brophy

  Want, Century, Form

  Brigid Brophy (1969). “In Transit”, Heretic Books

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• In the deeper layers of the modern consciousnessevery attempt to succeed is an act of aggression, leaving one alone and guilty and defenseless among enemies: one is punished for success. This is our intolerable dilemma: that failure is a kind of death and success is evil and dangerous, is--ultimately--impossible.

  Robert Warshow

  Success, Evil, Leaving

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• ... You get surreal numbers by playing games. I used to feel guilty in Cambridge that I spent all day playing games, while I was supposed to be doing mathematics. Then, when I discovered surreal numbers, I realized that playing games IS math.

  John Horton Conway

  Science, Math, Numbers

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• I'm trying to make records where people don't feel cheated. Nashville has been guilty of insulting the Country Music audience for years and years.

  Steve Earle

  Country, Nashville, Years

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