Pastoral Resources

Canon law itself says for one case of guilt, a priest can be dismissed from the clerical state. One.

You will put on a dress of guilt and shoes with broken high ideals.

I think every parent, every generation has wanted their children to do better and have a higher standard of living. But I think there's too much guilt.

Guilt is anger directed at ourselves - at what we did or did not do. Resentment is anger directed at others - at what they did or did not do.

The treason of which I stand convicted loses all its guilt, has been sanctified as a duty, and will be ennobled as a sacrifice.

It's great to be recognized when I'm looking for a table at a crowded restaurant, but I still don't put it to best use. I'm such a lump. I won't cut the line. It's my Catholic guilt. I gotta get used to it.

What is guilt? Guilt is the pledge drive constantly hammering in our heads that keeps us from fully enjoying the show. Guilt is the reason they put the articles in Playboy.

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.

Sin, guilt, neurosis; they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

I don't feel guilt. Whatever I wish to do, I do.

My creativity and my political work are linked. I don't do this work out of guilt or out of responsibility.

Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.

I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt.

But I think I can sincerely declare that I cheerfully submit myself to every odious name for conscience' sake; and from my soul I despise all those whose guilt, malice, or folly has made them my foes.

Alas! how difficult it is not to betray one's guilt by one's looks.

In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be set to serve. Secrecy means evasion, and evasion means a problem to the moral mind.

The price that one pays for refusing to act on the truth as one sees it, is to be led to believe untruth to avoid guilt.

Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.

Loomis has always felt himself responsible for the fact that he did not stop Michael when he first murdered his sister, and so he's got that guilt to live with.

How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.