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All too often we're filled with negative and limiting beliefs. We're filled with doubt. We're filled with guilt or with a sense of unworthiness. We have a lot of assumptions about the way the world is that are actually wrong.

Although I was too young to understand the theory of universal (that's to say male) guilt, I was old enough to know which sex suffered migraine and which sex caused it.

Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.

Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.

And increasingly - you know this and so do I we're losing the youth everywhere. They hate us; they are not interested in having more fears and guilt laid on them. They're not interested in more sermons and exhortations. But they are interested in learning about love. How can I be happy? How can I live? How can I taste the marvelous things that the mystics speak of?

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

And no, it wasn't shame I now felt, or guilt, but something rarer in my life and stronger than both: remorse. A feeling which is more complicated, curdled, and primeval. Whose chief characteristic is that nothing can be done about it: too much time has passed, too much damage has been done, for amends to be made.

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.

Anger, depression, guilt, and shame are the product of the thinking that is at the base of violence on our planet.

An indiscriminate distrust of human nature is the worst consequence of a miserable condition, whether brought about by innocence or guilt. And though want of suspicion more than want of sense, sometimes leads a man into harm; yet too much suspicion is as bad as too little sense.

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.

A tardy vengeance shares the tyrant's guilt.

Anyone who's been poor and gets rich is stalked by guilt and fear.  Guilt because you know it isn't fair, that life hasn't changed for everyone

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

As fleeting emotions stalk it, a face can leak fear or the guilt of a forming lie.

A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased

A wicked conscience mouldeth goblins swift as frenzy thoughts.

A villain who shares one's guilt is inevitably more attractive than a hero convinced of one's innocence.

Besides the guilt of sin and the power of sin, there is the stain of sin.

Being raised Catholic myself, I think people who are Catholic tend to carry a lot of guilt. It's almost a joke.

Beside one deed of guilt, how blest is guiltless woe!

Be this thy brazen bulwark, to keep a clear conscience, and never turn pale with guilt.

Being natural and matter-of-fact about nudity prevents your children from developing an attitude of shame and guilt about the human body.

By the laws of rectitude accused Persons, however atrocious their offences, are allowed to make their defence, and by a verdict of a Jury of their Peers, they are either convicted, or acquitted. I have some times thought that we Women are hardly dealt by since strictly speaking, we cannot legally be tried by our Peers, for men are not our Peers, and yet upon their breath our guilt or innocence depends— thus are our privileges in this, as in many other respects tyrannically abridged, and we are forced to yield to necessity.

By justification we are saved from the guilt of sin…by sanctification we are saved from the power and root of sin

By right, as the word is employed in this subject, has always been understood discretion, that is, a full and complete power of either doing a thing or omitting it, without the person's becoming liable to animadversion or censure from another, that is, in other words, without his incurring any degree of turpitude or guilt. Now in this sense I affirm that man has no rights, no discretionary power whatever.

But who would dare condemn me in this world with no judges, where no one is innocent!

By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Canon law itself says for one case of guilt, a priest can be dismissed from the clerical state. One.

By the sympathy of your human hearts for sin ye shall scent out all the places — whether in church, bedchamber, street, field, or forest — where crime has been committed, and shall exult to behold the whole earth one stain of guilt, one mighty blood spot.

Catholic and Jew - it's very closely related, a lot of holidays, a lot of guilt, a lot of the same things going on.

Conditioned Awareness is where we live our lives in guilt over the past and anxiety over the future and never get to experience the present.

Catholics have guilt and Jews have guilt, fine. But mothers can trump them all.

Cheap thrill: moral outrage revels in its own innocence and in the guilt of the wicked Others.

Climbing the economic ladder has been very hard for me; I still feel a great deal of guilt towards those I left behind.

Collective guilt is borne by what is conventionally called the scapegoat. Now the scapegoat for white society - which is based on myths of progress, civilization, liberalism, education, enlightenment, refinement - will be precisely the force that opposes the expansion and the triumph of these myths. This brutal opposing force is supplied by the Negro.

Confession of one's guilt purifies and uplifts. Its suppression is degrading and should always be avoided.

Conscious virtue is the only solid foundation of all happiness; for riches, power, rank, or whatever, in the common acceptation ofthe word, is supposed to constitute happiness, will never quiet, much less cure, the inward pangs of guilt.

Control cannot be called conscience until we are able to take it inside us and make it our own, until--in spite of the fact that the wrongs we have done or imagined will never be punished or known--we nonetheless feel that the clutch in the stomach, that chill upon the soul, that self-inflicted misery called guilt.

Did we risk our lives to defend a just society, where guilt must be proven and not assumed? Or are we no better than the oppressive kings from whom our fathers fled?

Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.

Cruel with guilt, and daring with despair, the midnight murderer bursts the faithless bar; invades the sacred hour of silent rest and leaves, unseen, a dagger in your breast.

Don't medicate dysfunction with spending. No amount of stuff will get rid of guilt.

Don't bother trying to guilt me. Ask my other. It doesn't work.

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

Don't saddle me with your ideals, and spare me all your guilt. For a poet with all the answers, has never yet been built.

Don't take guilt trips. Take a trip to the mall, to the next county, to a foreign country, but NOT to where the guilt is.

Everything can be brought to the extreme. Food is good, overeating is bad. Possessions are good, hoarding is bad. Guilt is good, obsessing about guilt is bad. But I think guilt is good because I'm like, "Hey, I just stabbed that guy and I feel pretty good.

Duty or guilt may motivate us for awhile, but only a sense of Christ's love for us will motivate us for a lifetime.

Each of us when he appears before his fellows is clothed in a certain dignity. But every man knows what unconfessable things pass within the secrecy of his own heart.