When we wallow in guilt, remorse, and shame over real or imagined sins of the past, we are disdaining God's gift of grace.
Worry is the product of a future that we cannot guarantee and guilt is the product of a past we cannot change.
My creativity and my political work are linked. I don't do this work out of guilt or out of responsibility.
Now that you're an adult, you might still feel a pang of guilt when you decline a dinner invitation in favor of a good book. Or maybe you like to eat alone in restaurants and could do without the pitying looks from fellow diners. Or you're told that you're "in your head too much", a phrase that's often deployed against the quiet and cerebral. Or maybe there's another word for such people: thinkers.
The Constitution does not trust judges to make determinations of criminal guilt.
Let the guilt teach you how to behave next time.
Alas! how difficult it is not to betray one's guilt by one's looks.
Perhaps his tragedy is that he is the only normal writer left on earth -- and it is this that adds to his isolation and so too his so sense of guilt.
The guilt of a government is the crime of a whole country.
We gather our arms full of guilt as though it were precious stuff. It must be that we want it that way.
Many may very well continue to ask why more value is placed on technicalities of a law than on a man's flesh and blood life, especially when there is any amount of "doubt" at all regarding his guilt or innocence.
I think there's a tremendous amount of guilt that goes on between mothers and daughters, no matter how good or bad their relationships are.
The ethical practices of lawyers are probably no worse than those of other professions. Lawyers bring some of the trouble on by claiming in a sanctimonious way that they are interested only in justice, not power or wealth. They also suffer guilt by association. Their clients are often people in trouble. Saints need no lawyers: gangsters do.
When a man has been guilty of any vice or folly, the best atonement he can make for it is to warn others not to fall into the like.
where everybody is guilty, nobody is.
The three most harmful negative emotions are anger, guilt, and fear. And anger is number one. It is also the strongest and most dangerous of all passions.
Guilt says I've done something wrong;. . . shame says there is something wrong with me. Guilt says I've made a mistake;. . . shame says I am a mistake. Guilt says what did was not good;. . . shame says I am no good.
Fretting about overpopulation, is a perfect guilt-free - indeed, sanctimonious - way for "progressives" to be racists.
No-fault guilt: This is when, instead of trying to figure out who's to blame, everyone pays.
You cannot live with guilt.