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Sensing the carelessness and one-sidedness of our prayers, we start to feel guilty about praying. Guilt leads to faint-heartedness and that in turn leads to prayerlessness.
Source: Too Busy Not to Pray -
A god implants in mortal guilt whenever he wants utterly to confound a house.
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Acts that proceed from your calm center are always more effective than acts that proceed from fear, guilt, or anger.
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Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.
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By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.
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Cruel with guilt, and daring with despair, the midnight murderer bursts the faithless bar; invades the sacred hour of silent rest and leaves, unseen, a dagger in your breast.
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Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.
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Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.
Source: Letter to Abigail Adams, 19-05-1794 -
Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (1990) 124 -
Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one's own actions or lack of action.
Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012) 130 -
Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.
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Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal.
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He that is conscious of guilt cannot bear the innocence of others: So they will try to reduce all others to their own level.
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He's got a lead brain. It's a battle magnet. He carries it around by the guilt straps...don't laugh, you didn't see the size of the blizzard that birthed him.
Source: Poetry Healing Herman Hesse -
How blunt are all the arrows of thy quiver in comparison with those of guilt.
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I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.
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