Personal Guilt Quotes

#1. genuinely righteous people invariably become more aware of their personal guilt and need for forgiveness than those who have become so foul and hard they cannot detect their own shame.

D. A. Carson

#2. This book is a personal memoir; but it is also a larger story-about carelessness and guilt, and the wreckage they can make of lives.

Brooke Hayward

#3. We can learn personal humility from episodes that generate shame and guilt. After retiring from worldly affairs and drawing useful lessons from personal disgrace, we must resume living an expedient life devoted to appreciating truth, beauty, and love.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#4. Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done the wrong

Tryon Edwards

#5. I realize how depraved it was to instill false guilt in an innocent child's conscience, causing a distorted image of life, God, & self, leaving little if any feeling of personal worth.

Mary Griffith

#6. I was very lighthearted. This often the way when the abandonment of personal responsibility is enforced: neither wronged innocence or just guilt can seriously impair the sensation of freedom one has.

Anthony Burgess

#7. Innovative technologies such as cold fusion, and radical energy sources, including sonoluminescent-triggered fusion and anti-gravitational propulsion, are either being withheld or blocked by governments, old-fashioned science academia and multinational corporations.

Takaaki Musha

#8. Even the beauty of the landscape was an abstraction, like the beauty of a man in an advertisement for a cologne you could not smell.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#9. This is the kind of corruption we understand, the corruption of the petty clerk writ large, and so this is the kind of corruption we look for. This is the kind of guilt we expect and understand: personal, targeted, involving suitcases. We really need suitcases.

Mihir S. Sharma

#10. With 'Seven Deadly Sins,' there was a lot of personal stuff in there that I didn't even realize I'd been carrying around for awhile. And a lot of guilt involved, a lot of emotion, a lot of depression. Once I was done writing that book, I was able to really let go of that stuff.

Corey Taylor

#11. Of all liars, the smoothest and most convincing is memory

Harlan Ellison

#12. As I digest what words I speak, I consume more wisely.

Soul Dancer

#13. I'm just going to say it: I'm pro-guilt. Guilt is good. Guilt helps us stay on track because it's about our behavior. It occurs when we compare something we've done - or failed to do - with our personal values.

Brene Brown

#14. For the Christian there can be no social or political panaceas, no easy escapes from personal responsibility achieved by collectivising guilt or virtue. The true ends of temporal life lie beyond it, and, though the tyrannical State may diminish virtue, the benevolent State cannot procure it.

Margaret Thatcher

#15. Theories of evolution must provide for the creative acts which brought such theories into existence.

Michael Polanyi

#16. It is the essence of the institutions of liberty that it be recognized that guilt is personal and cannot be attributed to the holding of opinions or to mere intent in the absence of overt acts.

Charles Evans Hughes

#17. There is violence in this supposedly tender heart of mine.

Julian Barnes

#18. I suppose I arrived at my charitable commitment largely through guilt. I recognized early on that my good fortune was not due to superior personal character or initiative so much as it was to dumb luck.

George Kaiser

#19. The word 'entertain' means to hold someone's attention, and what we want is a faith that is vibrant and alive and beautiful and real.

Erwin McManus

#20. My mother's story continues to haunt me, it will until the day I die. My guilt and personal anguish is a good thing. It propelles me to strive to become the man my mother wanted me to be.

M.J. Burke Sr.

#21. Now, if any fundamental assumption underlies our system, it is that guilt is personal and not inheritable.

Robert H. Jackson

#22. The shadows along the streets were personal, and, every passing day, they seemed to grow longer and hungrier

Katherine McIntyre

#23. Let no guilty man escape, if it can he avoided ... No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty.

Ulysses S. Grant

#24. Mind chatter: a clatter of left-brain rains of doubt, worry, guilt, shame in a thunderstorm of fear. Forgive the chatter, clear your mind.

Soul Dancer

#25. Hrun the Barbarian, who was practilly an academic by Hub standards in that he could think without moving his lips.

Terry Pratchett

#26. Forgiving yourself, not guilt, increases personal accountability.

David D. Burns

#27. Love is the only flower that grows and blossoms without the aid of the seasons

Kahlil Gibran