Guilt Quotes - Page 19

• The sense of anxiety and guilt doesn't come from having too much to do; it's the automatic result of breaking agreements with yourself.

  David Allen

  Agreement, Anxiety, Too Much

  David Allen (2015). “Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity”, p.229, Penguin

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• The different religions have never overlooked the part played by the sense of guilt in civilization. What is more, they come forward with a claim...to save mankind from this sense of guilt, which they call sin.

  Sigmund Freud

  Civilization, Different, Sin

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

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• Only when we accept and forgive all that is or has been the good, the bad, and the ugly of our human lives can we get off the guilt trip and back into the flow. That means we must love our humanness and all of our failings; we must accept, learn from, and yes, even love our mistakes.

  Sonia Choquette

  Mistake, Mean, Forgiving

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• Devil does not bring sinners to Hell with their eyes open: he first blinds them with the malice of their own sins. He thus leads them to eternal perdition. Before we fall into sin, the enemy labours to blind us, that we may not see the evil we do, and the ruin we bring upon ourselves by offending God. After we commit sin, he seeks to make us dumb, that, through shame, we may conceal our guilt in confession.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Fall, Eye, Offending

  "Sermons of St. Alphonsus Liguori: For All the Sundays of the Year".

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• Guilt must not be allowed to fester in the silence of the soul, poisoning it from within. It needs to be confessed. Through confession we bring it into the light, we place it within Christ's purifying love. In confession, the Lord washes our soiled feet over and over again and prepares us for table fellowship with him.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Light, Feet, Silence

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• The guilt I felt for having a mental illness was horrible. I prayed for a broken bone that would heal in six weeks. But that never happened. I was cursed with an illness that nobody could see and nobody knew much about.

  Andy Behrman

  Broken, Six, Mental Illness

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• White guilt is more of a sanctioned social convention than a genuine emotional experience. It’s a form of theatrical empathy that’s socially and financially rewarded. When you learn to say and perhaps even believe the right things about race, doors are opened for you. When you say the wrong thing, those doors slam shut. Then, the gossips and church ladies will shame you publicly, demand that you be fired from your job, and use every avenue available to them to coerce a confession, a public apology and a staged conversion that contributes to their progressive narrative.

  Jack Donovan

  Jobs, Believe, Apology

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• Every day I get better at knowing that it is not a choice to be an activist; rather, it is the only way to hold on to the better parts of my human self. It is the only way I can live and laugh without guilt.

  Staceyann Chin

  Life, Laughter, Self

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• To put it bluntly and plainly, if Christ is not my Substitute, I still occupy the place of a condemned sinner. If my sins and my guilt are not transferred to Him, if He did not take them upon Himself, then surely they remain with me. If He did not deal with my sins, I must face their consequences. If my penalty was not borne by Him, it still hangs over me. There is no other possibility.

  Leon Morris

  Faces, Sin, Christ

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• Love has within it a redemptive power. And there is a power there that eventually transforms individuals. Just keep being friendly to that person. Just keep loving them, and they can't stand it too long. Oh, they react in many ways in the beginning. They react with guilt feelings, and sometimes they'll hate you a little more at that transition period, but just keep loving them. And by the power of your love they will break down under the load. That's love, you see. It is redemptive.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Hate, Love You, Long

  "Loving Your Enemies". Sermon by Martin Luther King, Jr. at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, Montgomery, Alabama, November 17, 1957.

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• We want character but without unyielding conviction; we want strong morality but without the emotional burden of guilt or shame; we want virtue but without particular moral justifications that invariably offend; we want good without having to name evil; we want decency without the authority to insist upon it; we want more community without any limitations to personal freedom. In short, we want what we cannot possibly have on the terms that we want it.

  James Davison Hunter

  Strong, Character, Emotional

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• There appears to be a deeply embedded uneasiness in our culture about throwing away junk that can be reused. Perhaps, in part, it is guilt about consumption. Perhaps it also feels unnatural. Mother Nature doesn't throw stuff away. Dead trees, birds, beetles and elephants are pretty quickly recycled by the system.

  William Booth

  Mother, Elephants, Tree

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• To the extent we are perceiving anyone's guilt -choosing to focus on the errors of their personality rather than the eternal innocence of their spirit - we're closing our hearts, deflecting a miracle and causing our own inevitable suffering.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, Heart, Errors

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from May 10, 2013

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• Let go of self-condemnation and guilt!

  Tae Yun Kim

  Letting Go, Self, Condemnation

  Tae Yun Kim (1994). “The Silent Master: Awakening the Power Within”

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• It's the sort of subject that always interests me: jealousy and the language of suspicion and guilt. I think it interests people.

  Adrian Lyne

  Thinking, People, Language

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• Sin cannot dethrone God. That is what sin aims to do, but it misses its mark. Sin brings guilt to a man, but it does not bring him one ounce of sovereignty. God rules even when men imagine they are defying Him.

  Tom Wells

  Men, Missing, Doe

  Tom Wells (1985). “A vision for missions”, Banner of Truth

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• Black racism is a myth created by whites to ease their guilt feelings. As long as whites can be assured that blacks are racists, they can find reasons to justify their own oppression of’ black people.

  James H. Cone

  White, Long, Racism

  James H. Cone “Black Theology and Black Power”, Orbis Books

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• If the guilt of sin is so great that nothing can satisfy it but the blood of Jesus; and the filth of sin is so great that nothing can fetch out the stain thereof but the blood of Jesus, how great, how heinous, how sinful must the evil of sin be.

  William Throsby Bridges

  Jesus, Blood, Evil

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• You can't possibly conduct a proper affair without a lot of deliberating, scheming, speculating, and conniving. It's a delicate balance where the excitement must equal the guilt and sex must be as bright as the future you gamble.

  John Dufresne

  Sex, Balance, Excitement

  John Dufresne (2008). “Love Warps the Mind a Little: A Novel”, p.6, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Animals have this way of constantly confronting us with ultimate questions - about truth and falsehood, guilt and innocence, God and sanctity and the soul - forcing us to define ourselves and our relationship to the world.

  Matthew Scully

  Animal, Soul, World

  Matthew Scully (2003). “Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy”, p.305, Macmillan

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• Guilt is also a way for us to express to others that we are a person of good conscience. 'I feel really guilty about getting drunk last night,' we say, when in actual fact we feel no guilt whatsoever or, at least, we could choose to feel no guilt. When people say to me, 'I drank too much last night,' I always reply, 'I drank exactly the right amount.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Night, Drunk, People

  Tom Hodgkinson (2006). “How to be Free”

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• Guilt is also a way for us to express to others that we are a person of good conscience.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Way, Persons, Conscience

  Tom Hodgkinson (2006). “How to be Free”

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• It is my assumption that growth in faith is the root of all spiritual growth and is prior to all disciplines of works. True spirituality is not a superhuman religiosity; it is simply true humanity released from bondage to sin and renewed by the Holy Spirit. This is given to us as we grasp by faith the full content of Christ's redemptive work: freedom from the guilt and power of sin, and newness of life through the indwelling and outpouring of his Spirit.

  Richard Lovelace

  Spiritual, Roots, Discipline

  "Dynamics of Spiritual Life".

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• It's special, grandparents and grandchldren. So much simpler. Is it always so, I wonder? I think perhaps it is. While one's child takes a part of one's heart to use and misuse as they please, a grandchild is different. Gone are the bonds of guilt and responsibility that burden the maternal relationship. The way to love is free.

  Kate Morton

  Children, Heart, Responsibility

  Kate Morton (2010). “The Kate Morton Collection: The House at Riverton and The Forgotten Garden”, p.189, Simon and Schuster

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• Suicide is a particularly awful way to die: the mental suffering leading up to it is usually prolonged, intense and unpalliated. There is no morphine equivalent to ease the acute pain, and death, not uncommonly, is violent and grisly. The suffering of a suicidal is private and inexpressible, leaving family members, friends and colleagues to deal with an almost unfathomable kind of loss, as well as guilt. Suicide carries in its aftermath a level of confusion and devastation that is, for the most part, beyond description.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Suicide, Pain, Suicidal

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2011). “Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide”, p.24, Vintage

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