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As mercy is God's goodness confronting human misery and guilt, so grace is his goodness directed toward human debt and demerit.
I have a fascination with Flight 93. My emotions are mixed: awe, gratitude, fear, heartache, pride - even, in some ways, guilt.
The treason of which I stand convicted loses all its guilt, has been sanctified as a duty, and will be ennobled as a sacrifice.
Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them must share the guilt for the dead.
I have a high guilt quotient. A poem can go through as many as 50 or 60 drafts. It can take from a day to two years - or longer.
Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done the wrong
Parenting is a giant responsibility forever, so we need to learn how to drop the guilt and go easy on ourselves when we mess up.
The uniqueness of executive clemency lies in the president's power to act without weighing guilt, innocence and legal principle.
Even if you are loaded down with guilt about everything you did in the past, you still are experiencing the guilt in the moment.
I once tried to figure out the first time I felt guilt, and it goes so far back that I might have been an inch long at the time.
I don't have any gnawing guilt over contributing to any unhappiness suffered by my husbands. They were as much to blame as I was.
It's the sort of subject that always interests me: jealousy and the language of suspicion and guilt. I think it interests people.
The more I accuse myself, the more right I have to judge you. Even better, I make you judge yourself, which comforts me the more.
Why not, when it can be done without exposure or expense, let me rescue some of America's miserable children from vice and guilt?
Hard though it may be to accept, remember that guilt is sometimes a friendly internal voice reminding you that you're messing up.
Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them, must share the guilt for the dead.
We all feel the urge to condemn ourselves out of guilt, to blame others for our misfortunes and to fantasize about total disaster.
Where does guilt and punishment lie, and are we not more expressive over remorse or guilt when other people see the badness in us?
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.
Now, I don't want to get off on a rant here, but guilt is simply God's way of letting you know that you're having too good a time.
Was it you or I who stumbled first? It does not matter. The one of us who finds the strength to get up first, must help the other.
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.
Guilt is really the reverse side of the coin of pride. Guilt aims at self-destruction, and pride aims at the destruction of others.
You’re so sweet,' Frypan said with a snort. 'Go ahead and die with Thomas. I think I’ll sneak away and enjoy living with the guilt.
Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose. [Lat., Imperium flagitio acquisitum nemo unquam bonis artibus exercuit.]
Let no guilty man escape, if it can he avoided. . . . No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty.
But I have my life, I’m living it. It’s twisted, exhausting, uncertain, and full of guilt, but nonetheless, there’s something there.
Innocence has a single voice that can only say over and over again, "I didn't do it." Guilt has a thousand voices, all of them lies.
Villains!' I shrieked. 'Dissemble no more! I admit the deed! Tear up the planks! Here, here! It is the beating of his hideous heart!
Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar, it never fails of doing justice upon itself; for every guilty person is his own hangman.
Intuitive Eaters march to their inner hunger signals, and eat whatever they choose without experiencing guilt or an ethical dilemma.
You will always know whether you are delivered from the guilt of sin by answering this question: Am I delivered from the love of sin?
Solomon's Proverbs, I think, have omitted to say, that as the sore palate findeth grit, so an uneasy consciousness heareth innuendos.
The men and women of the North are slaveholders, those of the South slaveowners. The guilt rests on the North equally with the South.
If I want to make the first move, I want to go after something in my life, I should be able to do that without shame, guilt, or blame.
Remember that you have to be happy to make other people happy. Don't get weighed down by duty, guilt, and responsibility all the time.
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.
I hate when the major event of a show I watch is spoiled for me. And I'm wracked with guilt when/if I spoil something for someone else.
He incurs a fearful amount of guilt who in the least promotes the aim of the Evil One by trampling upon a tender conscience in a child.
God Who delivers us from the guilt of sin through faith in Jesus Christ, is able to deliver the believer from the power of sin as well.
Let us not search for the guilty ones only among others, let us speak the bitter truth: we are all guilty ... each and every one of us.
I grew up Catholic and still feel a lot of Catholic guilt. But my wife is not religious so we're not raising our daughters religiously.
The sense of anxiety and guilt doesn't come from having too much to do; it's the automatic result of breaking agreements with yourself.
Instead of living in the sunshine of God's forgiveness through Christ, we tend to live under an overcast sky of guilt most of the time.
For many decades my relations with my parents constituted unfinished business. I had dealt with them through sheer avoidance and guilt.
When you're a kid, what you learn in school about being German has a sort of heaviness about it, and you have a sort of guilt with you.
Whoever shall now contend that it is unjust to put heretics and blasphemers to death will knowingly and willingly incur their very guilt.
There is no calamity greater than lavish desires. There is no greater guilt than discontent. And there is no greater disaster than greed.
Being natural and matter-of-fact about nudity prevents your children from developing an attitude of shame and guilt about the human body.