34 Quotes About Guilty Conscience

The Bible is filled with quotes about the guilt we feel when we sin. Above all, we should always try to make sure we don’t sin, but sometimes we do. Either way, the guilt that accompanies sin can be crippling and destructive to our relationships with God and others. When that guilt rises up in our hearts, here are some quotes to help you fight it back down again.

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Never judge someone's character based on the words of another. Instead, study the motives behind the words of the person casting the bad judgment. An honest woman can sell tangerines all day and remain a good person until she dies, but there will always be naysayers who will try to convince you otherwise. Perhaps this woman did not give them something for free, or at a discount. Perhaps too, that she refused to stand with them when they were wrong – or just stood up for something she felt was right. And also, it could be that some bitter women are envious of her, or that she rejected the advances of some very proud men. Always trust your heart. If the Creator stood before a million men with the light of a million lamps, only a few would truly see him because truth is already alive in their hearts. Truth can only be seen by those with truth in them. He who does not have Truth in his heart, will always be blind to her. . Suzy Kassem
I have tried to live my life with no regrets....
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I have tried to live my life with no regrets. Because regrets will become guilt in some cases, and guilt eats away at your sanity. James Hauenstein
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You’ll never let me go, will you? Giving me the space and freedom I want isn’t your idea of love, is it? You’d rather cut me deep on earth to spare me pain in hell, whereas I think hell is right here. Matthew J. Hefti
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An artistic person taps into the destructive emotional energy of guilt and shame and the longing to love and be loveable and transforms these powerful emotions into a creative force. Kilroy J. Oldster
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There was no use feeling guilty about getting on to the ship when you are in the middle of the ocean. If you felt guilty or sorry, you had only one option — drown in the middle of the sea. Jagdish Joghee
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All men are guilty of the wrong they have done. Lailah Gifty Akita
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Accept it all your so called SINS are only a result of your unawareness and nothing else, No sooner you realize this simple fact, you're instantly transformed. Stay Guilt Free, Celebrate Life! Ramana Pemmaraju
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People, in general, tend to project onto others their own state of mind. Well-meaning people inevitably assume other people are well meaning. People who cheat assume everyone cheats. People who deceive assume everybody deceives. Confessions of a Whistle-Blower: Lessons Anna C. Salter. Ethics & Behavior, Volume 8, Issue 2 June 1998 Anna C. Salter
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We can't make up for lost time, but we can make room to share space. T.F. Hodge
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It was the look on her face when she said it. And how much she meant it. It suddenly made everything seem like it really was. I felt terrible. Just terrible. Stephen Chbosky
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One faerie - and then we were free. Just on more swing of my arm. And maybe one more after that - maybe one more swing, up and inward and into my own heart. Sarah J. Maas
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The truth may roar, but it's roaring does not terrify the blameless. Guilty conscience needs neither a critic nor an accuser. Remember, the truth has no aiding crutches; once it is limping, its name is "a lie'. Israelmore Ayivor
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That’s why you have to go and guilt him for all the trouble. It can’t be your fault that you lost your memory if he wasn’t smart enough to tell you about the wine. Denny B. Reese
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When basic human needs are ignored, rejected, or invalidated by those in roles and positions to appropriately meet them; when the means by which these needs have been previously met are no longer available: and when prior abuse has already left one vulnerable for being exploited further, the stage is set for the possibility these needs will be prostituted. This situation places a survivor who has unmet needs in an incredible dilemma. She can either do without or seek the satisfaction of mobilized needs through some "illegitimate" source that leaves her increasingly divided from herself and ostracized from others. While meeting needs in this way resolves the immediate existential experience of deprivation and abandonment. it produces numerous other difficulties. These include experiencing oneself as “bad” or "weak" for having such strong needs; experiencing shame and guilt for relying on “illegitimate” sources of satisfaction: experiencing a loss of self-respect for indulging in activities contrary to personal moral standards of conduct; risking the displeasure and misunderstanding of others important to her; and opening oneself to the continued abuse and victimization of perpetrators who are all too willing to selfishly use others for their own pleasure and purposes under the guise of being 'helpful. J. Jeffrey Means
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All this is what it means to regret. Matthew J. Hefti
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She heard him speak, but did not recognise the problem in his voice — only later did she realise it was that thing he’d been concealing — known as guilt. Carla H. Krueger
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With every rise in choices, the expectations double up which puts people deeper down into the rubble. Ashish Patel
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How dare you?' Bayar began, but his voice had lost some of its force. 'How dare you come into this sacred hall, flinging accusations?'' I have not yet made any accusations, ' Willo said. 'Perhaps it is our own guilt clamoring in your ears. Cinda Williams Chima
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How dare you?' Bayar began, but his voice had lost some of its force. 'How dare you come into this sacred hall, flinging accusations?'' I have not yet made any accusations, ' Willo said. 'Perhaps it is your own guilt clamoring in your ears. Cinda Williams Chima
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We carry the world. They did. All those young men did. They carried the world, and it was heavy, and they didn't know what to do with it. Was this the rest? Was this the war? Things had already spun out of control and they weren't always as black and white or as right or wrong as Nick liked to think. Matthew J. Hefti
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Vultures pick the meat clean off a bone. Guilt eats at the marrow, leaving a man hollow. Richelle E. Goodrich
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A pang of guilt, like a blaring siren, should never be ignored. Richelle E. Goodrich
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This feeling of guilt is your conscience calling your attention to the higher road, and your heart wishing you had taken it. Richelle E. Goodrich
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Consider guilt like a street sign that warns of rough roads ahead if you don’t make a u-turn. Richelle E. Goodrich
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A guilty conscience pushed me to try harder–which I did for what seemed like a tremendous amount of wasted time, staring bug-eyed at uncooperative pencils. What was missing? The answer seemed obvious–intense emotional incentive. But at the moment I didn’t feel desperate or angry or afraid. Just severely bored out of my mind and guilt-ridden for feeling so mind-numbingly b Richelle E. Goodrich
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I am stupid, am I not? What more can I want? If you ask them who is brave--who is true--who is just--who is it they would trust with their lives?--they would say, Tuan Jim. And yet they can never know the real, real truth.... Joseph Conrad
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At home in bed that first night I had patchy, mundane dreams about normal things. It would be nobler and less uncomfortable to write that I tossed sleeplessly. Darin Strauss
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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
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Guilt is basically one of my superpowers. It’s been programmed into me from the moment I was old enough to know what it was. Paula Stokes
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Guilt doesn’t stop you from doing something. It just stops you from enjoying it. Nityananda Das
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A man in loss is not a man to trust. Auliq Ice
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The horrible ugliness of this exposure of a sick and guilty heart to the very eye that would gloat over it! Nathaniel Hawthorne
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If you want to know the real reasons behind that attitude, think of the thought behind that attitude Ernest Agyemang Yeboah