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Great sins do draw out great grace; and where guilt is most terrible and fierce, there the mercy of God in Christ, when showed to the soul, appears most high and mighty.

Grief and guilt. A powerful combination. Guilt like a liquid, a thin liquor, seeping everywhere, informing everything, saturating the whole-corrosive, like seawater, scented with the rich stench of ordure and corruption, and carrying with it hard, abrasive shards of grief.

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

Guilt is always a good thing. If I kick you in the groin right now and don't feel guilty about it there's something wrong with me. Something's wrong with my conscience.

Guilt is a rope that wears thin.

Guilt is a very good thing if it is shared by others.

Guilt is feeling bad about what you have done; shame is feeling bad about who you are - all it is, is muddling up things you have done with who you are.

Guilt kept me going. It was impossible not to blame myself for what had happened, but even guilt was a comfort. It was a human feeling, a sign that I was still attached to the same world that other men lived in.

Guilt lies in the past, worry lies in the future.

Guilt simply says that you are a sinner. And the feeling of shame simply shows you that you need not be a sinner, that you are meant to be a saint. If you are a sinner it is only because of your unconsciousness; you are not a sinner because the society follows a certain morality and you are not following it.

Guilt starts as a feeling of failure.

Guilt and fear are a kind of rot. It spreads unless it's cleaned. And there's only one way to do that.

Guilt didn't put any butter on the bread of life.

Guilt is a supreme waste of time and energy.

Guilt is one side of a nasty triangle; the other two are shame and stigma. This grim coalition combines to inculpate women themselves of the crimes committed against them.

Guilt is the teacher, love is the lesson.

Guilt is to danger, what fire is to gunpowder; a man need not fear to walk among many barrels of powder, if he have no fire about him.

Guilt pins a fig-leaf; Innocence is its own adorning.

Guilt's a terrible thing.

Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal.

Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.

Guilt is a gift from Allah warning you that what you are doing is violating your soul

Guilt is always jealous

Guilt [is] a tool, rather than a weapon against the self.

Guilt is a weird thing to me. I don't have a lot of it.

Guilt is glorious when it's well earned.

Guilt is one of those useless emotions I refuse to indulge.

Guilt is only another way of avoiding informed action.

Guilt is the mafia of the mind.

Guilt is the price we pay willingly for doing what we are going to do anyway.

Guilt is the very nerve of sorrow.

Guilt is tricky because we confuse it with caring. ... It's the next best thing to being there.

Guilt, on the contrary, like a base thief, suspects every eye that beholds him to be privy to his transgressions, and every tongue that mentions his name to be proclaiming them.

guilt politics ... I regard as conveniently paralyzing, ripe for backlash defensiveness, counterproductive, and boring.

Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment: only there does its satisfaction lie.

Guilt can prevent us from setting the boundaries that would be in our best interests, and in other peoples best interests.

Guilt: I'm sorry. I made a mistake. Shame: I'm sorry. I am a mistake.

Guilt is about something you do. Shame is about who you are.

Guilt is anger directed at ourselves - at what we did or did not do. Resentment is anger directed at others - at what they did or did not do.

Had Adam tenderly reproved his wife, and endeavored to lead her to repentance instead of sharing in her guilt, I should be much more ready to accord to man that superiority which he claims; but as the facts stand disclosed by the sacred historian, it appears to me that to say the least, there was as much weakness exhibited by Adam as by Eve. They both fell from innocence, and consequently from happiness, but not from equality.

Hereafter we all have to be redeemed. The world is pulling with a thousand strings. We sin because of indifference and negligence and heap new guilt on the old original one. Our life is a chain of sin and expiation controlled by a destiny that can not be understood.

He who flees from trial confesses his guilt.

Hitler gave us orders - and we believed in him. Then he commits suicide and leaves us to bear the guilt. He should have remained alive to bear his share.

Guilt agonizes over trifles, ignores habitual wrongdoing.

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

Guilt doesn't help. What should fill in for it? Remorse. Remorse is when you feel bad about what you did. Guilt is when you feel bad about who you are.

Guilt has always its horrors and solicitudes; and, to make it yet more shameful and detestable, it is doomed often to stand in awe of those to whom nothing could give influence or weight but their power of betraying.

Guilt implanted at a tender age is not easy to destroy. A weed, it sprouts in unexpected places.

Guiltiness will speak, though tongues were out of use

Guilt is altruism's stock in trade, and the inducing of guilt is its only means of self-perpetuati on.