A Guilty Conscience Quotes

#1. There is a guilty conscience behind every brazen word and act and behind every manifestation of self-righteousness.

Eric Hoffer

#2. How tedious is a guilty conscience!

John Webster

#3. The only restorative for a guilty conscience is a sight of Jesus suffering on the cross.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#4. Worldlings may well be afraid, for they have an angry God above them, a guilty conscience within them, and a yawning hell beneath them; but we who rest in Jesus are saved from all these through rich mercy.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#5. A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.

Carolyn Wells

#6. For the longest time, marriage has had a guilty conscience about itself. Should we believe it?
Yes, we should believe it.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#7. Sometimes all you need is one person with a guilty conscience to come forward and do the right thing. Often, the miracle you need resides inside of yourself, when you humbly ask for forgiveness.

Shannon L. Alder

#8. While many believers walk around with a guilty conscience and feel disqualified to receive God's promises, we are able to enter a level of freedom that assures us we are qualified at any moment to boldly enter His presence, to shine with His glory, and to do great exploits for His kingdom.

Katherine Ruonala

#9. A guilty conscience has nowhere to hide

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#10. A guilty conscience speaks a thousand words...Just saying

Jasmine Lee

#11. I have always admired him (Bergman), and I wish I could be an equally good filmmaker as he is, but it will never happen. His love for the cinema almost gives me a guilty conscience

Steven Spielberg

#12. A guilty conscience is not worth extra food.

Ruta Sepetys

#13. Was ever any wicked man free from the stings of a guilty conscience?

John Tillotson

#14. A guilty conscience means at least you have one.

Jakob Dylan

#15. Many a criminal has finally given himself over to the authorities because the accusations of a guilty conscience were worse than prison bars.

Billy Graham

#16. There is nothing to fear on earth but sin. Prison and death are nothing compared to a guilty conscience. If we are destined to suffer unjustly, if all the world forsake us, God will not. Whatever happens, then, let us put our trust in God.

Christoph Von Schmid

#17. A guilty conscience is a great blessing, but only if it drives us to come home.

John R.W. Stott

#18. He (John Puller) wanted to intimidate. Intimidated people with a guilty conscience often made mistakes.

David Baldacci

#19. I would bear any affliction rather than be burdened with a guilty conscience.

Charles Spurgeon

#20. A guilty conscience never feels secure.

Publilius Syrus

#21. Few things are as bad as a guilty conscience.

Buchi Emecheta

#22. A guilty conscience is jealousy's playground.

L. Quick

#23. There are three things that earthly riches can never do; they can never satisfy divine justice, they can never pacify divine wrath, nor can they every quiet a guilty conscience. And till these things are done man is undone.

Thomas Brooks

#24. The promises made by a guilty conscience acknowledge and settle no debts...

Tove Jansson

#25. A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

Albert Camus

#26. A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is honest, let all the world know it. But if otherwise, what does it signify to have nobody else know it, so long as I know it myself? Miserable is he who slights that witness.

Seneca The Younger

#27. Not all the blood of beasts On Jewish altars slain, Could give the guilty conscience peace, Or wash away the stain: But Christ, the heav'nly Lamb, Takes all our sins away, A sacrifice of nobler nam' And richer blood than they.

Isaac Watts

#28. My conscience hath a thousand several tongues,
And every tongue brings in a several tale,
And every tale condemns me for a villain.
Perjury, perjury, in the high'st degree;
Murder, stern murder in the dir'st degree,
Throng to the bar, crying all, 'Guilty!, guilty!

William Shakespeare

#29. The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach.

Aleister Crowley

#30. If any speak ill of thee, flee home to thy own conscience, and examine thy heart: if thou be guilty, it is a just correction; if not guilty, it is a fair instruction: make use of both; so shalt thou distil honey out of gall, and out of an open enemy create a secret friend.

Francis Quarles

#31. I was like a ten-year-old kid who had been scraped off a mother's love so sudden and surreal that I kept hoping I could chant a few magical words and slowly, Mama Jas would materialise in front of me.

Diyar Harraz

#32. Those who have experienced the most, have suffered so much that they have ceased to hate. Hate is more for those with a slightly guilty conscience, and who by chewing on old hate in times of peace wish to demonstrate how great they were during the war.

Thor Heyerdahl

#33. If any speak ill of thee, fly home to thy own conscience and examine thy heart. If thou art guilty, it is a just correction; if not guilty, it is a fair instruction.

George Herbert

#34. Fair play with others is primarily the practice of not blaming them for anything that is wrong with us. We tend to rub our guilty conscience against others the way we wipe dirty fingers on a rag. This is as evil a misuse of others as the practice of exploitation.

Eric Hoffer

#35. As for the errors I make, the only punishment I acknowledge for having made them is my awareness of those errors, and having to live with it: there is, there should be, no heavier penalty on a person's soul, mind and heart.

Joumana Haddad

#36. It is enough for a poet to be the guilty conscience of his age.

Saint-John Perse

#37. This was the sickness of the age, the revolutionary madness of the epoch. In thought everyone was different from his words and outward show. No one had a clear conscience. Each with good reason could feel himself guilty, a secret criminal, an unexposed deceiver.

Boris Pasternak

#38. The horrible ugliness of this exposure of a sick and guilty heart to the very eye that would gloat over it!

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#39. Fear of dying must surely mean fear of how one dies. If one can be assured of a painless death, how can one fear it, unless one is a religious fanatic with a very guilty conscience?

Dimitris Mita

#40. I have always eaten animal flesh with a somewhat guilty conscience.

Albert Einstein

#41. The individual who dares commit a crime is guilty in a two-fold sense; first, he is guilty against human conscience, and, above all, he is guilty against the State in arrogating to himself one of its most precious privileges.

Mikhail Bakunin

#42. He did not feel guilty. He did not feel. The rock was a solidification of his feeling, his conscience, his sense of reality, his self-knowledge.

Nathanael West

#43. A pang of guilt, like a blaring siren, should never be ignored.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#44. Sorry' isn't a synonym for 'guilty.' It's a way to say you're listening.

Martina Boone

#45. A man in loss is not a man to trust.

Auliq Ice

#46. Consider guilt like a street sign that warns of rough roads ahead if you don't make a u-turn.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#47. If anyone has a conscience it's generally a guilty one.

Max Frisch

#48. 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.

Lino Rulli

#49. Vultures pick the meat clean off a bone. Guilt eats at the marrow, leaving a man hollow.

Richelle E. Goodrich