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Forgiving yourself, not guilt, increases personal accountability.

For many decades my relations with my parents constituted unfinished business. I had dealt with them through sheer avoidance and guilt.

For the first time, the best may err, art may persuade, and novelty spread out its charms. The first fault is the child of simplicity; but every other the offspring of guilt.

God hath yoked to guilt her pale tormentor,--misery.

Girls begin to have second thoughts about the violence. Studies show they feel a considerable amount of guilt about it. They feel bad later and want to apologize.

Generosity helps us make a concerted effort to keep the needs of others in the forefront of our thinking. Rich people should not feel guilty, but we should feel responsible. We are called to be good stewards of the resources we have been privileged to manage.

God is not necessary to create culpability, or to punish. Our fellow men are enough for that, helped by ourselves.

Grace doesn't cause people to live in sin; it frees them from the paralyzing effects of guilt and condemnation so that they can live holier accidentally now than they ever did on purpose before.

Grace gives us the power to live, and mercy keeps us free from guilt, condemnation, and shame.

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

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

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.

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.

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 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 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.

Guilt is just as powerful, but its influence is positive, while shame's is destructive. Shame erodes our courage and fuels disengagement.

Guilt is not the best way to remedy your mistakes.

Guilt is petty; I am above guilt.

Guilt is the most destructive of all emotions. It mourns what has been while playing no part in what may be, now or in the future.

Guilt is the thief of life.

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

Guilt management can be just as important as time management for mothers.

Guilt once harbored in the conscious breast, intimidates the brave, degrades the great.

Guilt: punishing yourself before God doesn't.

Guilt agonizes over trifles, ignores habitual wrongdoing.

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