Pastoral Resources

Guilt is the price we pay willingly for doing what we are going to do anyway.

I think while all mothers deal with feelings of guilt, working mothers are plagued by guilt on steroids!

I don't believe in guilt, I believe in living on impulse as long as you never intentionally hurt another person, and don't judge people in your life. I think you should live completely free.

But I don't believe in guilt by association.

The action carries a sense of incompleteness and frustration, but not of guilt. Victorious living does not mean perfect living in the sense of living without flaw, but it does mean adequate living, and that can be consistent with many mistakes.

My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.

We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.

The extent of one man's guilt may be defined by how much of it is experienced by the party he injured.

Hard though it may be to accept, remember that guilt is sometimes a friendly internal voice reminding you that you're messing up.

The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

Skating takes up 70 percent of my time, school about 25 percent. Having fun and talking to my friends, 5 percent. It's hard. I envy other kids a lot of things, but I get a guilt trip when I'm not training.

True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is.

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.

I am tortured when I am away from my family, from my children. I am horribly guilt-ridden.

There's no regret. You can't regret. I mean, I've felt regret but I've also refused to allow regret to sow a seed and live in me because I don't believe it. You feel it, it's like guilt, it's like jealousy, it's like all those horrible things. You've just got to snip them and get them out, because they're no good.

I'm happiest at home hanging out with the kids... Having a family has been my saving grace because I don't work back to back on anything or I'd drive myself to an early grave with guilt and worry for my family, whom I'd never see.

Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn't enough and you have to go and get shot or something.

I mean, I felt terrible. And in the beginning, I mean, I was completely devastated. I mean, can you imagine the kind of guilt that you would feel, and the responsibility?

With a parent, it's always guilt. You want to be there, but you kind of also want to be here.

My mother should have been Jewish. She could have taught a class on how to induce guilt.