Guilt Quotes
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Let him who is without guilt cast the first stone. A trap. Because then he will be no longer without guilt.
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I had a lot of guilt and shame when I was running from God, but nothing like when I was running for God. I was always looking for God's approval, and that's where the guilt and shame came out in a big way.
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[Bill Clinton] has settled numerous lawsuits without admitting any guilt on a whole number of things. Are you saying, are you implying that settling a lawsuit is implying guilt? Because if so, it means that your candidate is guilty of an awful lot of things, no.
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Besides the guilt of sin and the power of sin, there is the stain of sin.
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I don't believe in collective guilt, but I do believe in collective responsibility.
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Do not have regrets. Guilt is a wasted emotion.
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Guilt always makes the other feelings worse.
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I believe in innocence until there's proof of guilt and all that.
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What you believe is very powerful. If you have toxic emotions of fear, guilt and depression, it is because you have wrong thinking, and you have wrong thinking because of wrong believing.
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Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups.
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...every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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I didn't wake up one day and say, I have to tell O.J.'s Simpson story. But what drew me to it wasn't what people have focused on over the last 20 years - meaning, the question of innocence or guilt, nor the spectacle of the trial. I was more interested in the history that led up to that point in time in 1994, which would help explain what exactly went into making the trial as fascinating as it was.
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Jews can't serve on juries because they insist they're guilty.
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Welfare states on both sides of the Atlantic have discovered that largesse to losers does not reduce their hostility to society, but only increases it. Far from producing gratitude, generosity is seen as an admission of guilt, and the reparations as inadequate compensations for injustices - leading to worsening behavior by the recipients.
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We routinely leave our small children in day care among strangers. At the same time, in our guilt we evince paranoia about strangers and foster fear in children.
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From the beginning, we failed to overcome Europe's division. The Berlin Wall fell, but invisible walls were moved to the East of Europe. This has led to mutual misunderstandings and assignments of guilt. They are the cause of all crises ever since.
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A stunning meditation on the power of escape, and on the cat-and-mouse contest the self plays to deflect its own guilt.
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I think death is easier than guilt sometimes.
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Guilt is about something you do. Shame is about who you are.
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Most of my younger Native American friends are not in any way looking for sympathy, and they're not looking to lay guilt on anybody. They have their dignity, and they do what they do.
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Our huffing and puffing to impress God, our scrambling for brownie points, our thrashing about trying to fix ourselves while hiding our pettiness and wallowing in guilt are nauseating to God and are a flat denial of the gospel of grace.
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Magic teaches us how to lie without guilt.
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Because of subconscious guilt, people spend half their lives in self-punishment and the other half taking on more guilt.
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The truth is, sometimes siblings have nothing in common but blood...Sometimes you stay up late at night, thinking things that make you feel like a heartless monster, wishing for something different and then feeling sick with guilt because you know what the cost of "different" would be...There's a difference between having no siblings and having a broken one.
