Guilt Quotes - Page 33

• You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.

  Golda Meir

  Feelings, Used, Ifs

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• No sin is committed merely because a thought enters the mind, provided it is not made welcome. Perhaps we may use the figure that the thought first passes into an anteroom, where it stands before the mind acting as a judge. No matter how sordid or evil, it has not touched the personality with its infamy nor in any way laid guilt upon the soul unless and until the mind acting as judge admits it with a welcome. If the mind decides against it and dismisses it, the personality is not only unsullied but is, on the contrary, by this act of rejection stimulated and strengthened in moral power.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Judging, Evil, Rejection

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• When the Lord Jesus Christ became my surety . . . He went to Calvary's cross, and all my guilt was charged against Him. He settled for everything, and then He cried, 'It is finished.' And on the basis of that finished work, God can freely forgive, and justify completely, every poor sinner who trusts in the Lord Jesus Christ.

  Henry Allen Ironside

  Christian, Jesus, Forgiving

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• We must bring light to as many people as possible. Who has time to indulge in self-pity or guilt? In advanced self-giving you have no time for this. You just push these emotions out.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Indulge In

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• If you feel guilty about not "playing nice," then you could easily alleviate your guilt by playing nice.

  Amy Dickinson

  Nice, Women, Alleviate

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• Only good people feel guilt.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Women, People, Feels

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• And I'm a Catholic, from an Irish Catholic family, and we know plenty of stuff about guilt.

  Bob Gunton

  Catholic, Stuff, Knows

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Segregation, as even the segregationists know in their hearts, is morally wrong and sinful. If it weren't, the white South would not be haunted as it is by a deep sense of guilt for what it has done to the Negro - guilt for patronizing him, degrading him, brutalizing him, depersonalizing him, thingifying him; guilt for lying to itself. This is the source of the schizophrenia that the South will suffer until it goes through its crisis of conscience.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Lying, Heart, White

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• If you look at the New Testament, it's a gospel of love. Yes, there's talk of judgement and there's talk of heaven and there's talk of people not getting into heaven, but it doesn't seem to me that the fundamental message of the gospels was one of guilt and retribution so much as love.

  Jonathan Franzen

  People, Heaven, Judgement

  "Exclusive: Jonathan Franzen sounds off on bird poaching, climate change and 'performing love'". Interview with Lindsay Abrams, www.salon.com. April 27, 2015.

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• The small man thinks that small acts of goodness are of no benefit, and does not do them; and that small deeds of evil do no harm, and does not refrain from them. Hence, his wickedness becomes so great that it cannot be concealed, and his guilt so great that it cannot be pardoned.

  Confucius

  Men, Thinking, Small Acts

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• If any race of people should not have guilt about slavery, it's Caucasians.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Race, People, Slavery

  "‘White guilt’? Forget it: Whites have ‘done more to end’ slavery than ‘any other race,’ says Rush Limbaugh" by Clare Kim, www.msnbc.com. July 22, 2013.

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• Self-confidence is not pride. Just the contrary: only a person or a nation that is self-confident, in the best sense of the word, is capable of listening to others, accepting them as equals, forgiving its enemies and regretting its own guilt.

  Vaclav Havel

  Regret, Self Confidence, Pride

  New Year's Address to the Nation, Prague, January 01, 1990.

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• Guilt can make you doubt yourself at the very moment when you need to proceed with certainty.

  Joseph Bruchac

  Doubt, Needs, Moments

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• Don’t nurture a sense of guilt; rather, nurture a sense of responsibility married with a sense of humility.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Humility, Responsibility, Married

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• We have wished, we eco-freaks, for a disaster or for a social change to come and bomb us into Stone Age, where we might live like Indians in our valley, with our localism, our appropriate technology, our gardens, our homemade religion-guilt-free at last!

  Stewart Brand

  Technology, Garden, Age

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• Since our awareness of others is considered our duty, the price we pay when things go wrong is guilt and self-hatred. And things always go wrong. We respond with apologies; we continue to apologize long after the event is forgotten - and even if it had no causal relation to anything we did to begin with.

  Nancy Chodorow

  Apology, Self, Long

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• Magic teaches us how to lie without guilt.

  Eugene Burger

  Lying, Magic, Teach

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• The reputation is not essentially built by earning too much, learning too many things, achieving awards, bagging rewards or catapulting position to the hilt; but by unquestionably staying simple, humble , well grounded and doing nothing that makes own conscience to feel guilt.

  Anuj

  Humble, Simple, Awards

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• There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Writing, Men, Attention

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

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• Unchain yourself from the guilt that you aren’t doing something right, that you’re not leaving the “right” legacy, and BE your real self. Just that. That’s all the legacy you’re here to give - the genuine best of you.

  Wendy Keller

  Real, Self, Giving

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• So the starting point and the basis of their liberal wails of anguish always and always is guilt. Guilt, guilt, guilt.

  John Ringo

  Politics, Starting, Bases

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• Hello, my name is Noam and I have the answer to all your problems. It's all the fault of the evil Americans, the bad conservative ones that fill the airwaves with their lies and are in power and want to oppress the world. There. Now give me money so that I can soothsay again and assuage your guilt.

  John Ringo

  Lying, Names, Evil

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• Liberals and leftists have been dismissing inconvenient facts by attacking motives for generations. In the 1930s, '40s, and '50s, Soviet spies and abettors attacked the motives of their accusers because the fact of their guilt was undeniable. In the 1960s, over a thousand psychiatrists who'd never even met Barry Goldwater signed a petition saying the GOP candidate was too mentally unstable to be president.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Spy, President, Facts

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• The Earth is beautiful. If you start living its beauty, enjoying its joys with no guilt in your heart, you are in paradise. If you condemn everything, every small joy, then the same Earth turns into a hell. It is a question of your own inner transformation. It is not a change of place, it is a change of inner space. Live joyously, guiltlessly, live totally, live intensely. And then heaven is no more a metaphysical concept, it is your own experience.

  Rajneesh

  Beautiful, Wisdom, Heart

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• Guilt. It comes naturally to me as a Jew and a Liberal.

  Ezekiel Emanuel

  Jew

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