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“We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. I have heard others, and I have heard myself, recounting cruelties and falsehoods committed in boyhood as if they were no concern of the present speaker's, and even with laughter. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the guilt of a sin. The guilt is washed out not by time but by repentance and the blood of Christ: if we have repented these early sins we should remember the price of our forgiveness and be humble.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

“She closes her eyes, and I can see the moisture. She’s deep-breathing again, and I notice her hands are clutched around the opposing wrists, nails digging in deep, hard, scratching. Pain to replace pain.”
― Jasinda Wilder, Falling Into You

“WHAT ARE THE CONSEQUENCES when we go against our instincts? What are the consequences of not speaking out? What are the consequences of guilt, shame, and doubt?”
― Terry Tempest Williams, When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice

“God does not regret saving you. There is no sin which you commit which is beyond the cross of Christ.”
― Matt Chandler

“But, the thing about guilt is, no one can take away for you; you have to unpack it yourself.”
― Andrea Randall, In the Stillness

“And that for every negative event or coincidence that has happened since, imagining that you triggered them, that you made them happen makes you feel like you possess a degree of control that you don't have.”
― Michelle Hodkin, The Evolution of Mara Dyer

“Repentance means turning from as much as you know of your sin to give as much as you know of yourself to as much as you know of your God, and as our knowledge grows at these three points so our practice of repentance has to be enlarged.”
― J.I. Packer, Keep in Step with the Spirit: Finding Fullness in Our Walk with God

“Ivanov: Once I worked hard and thought a lot but I never got tired; now I do nothing and think of nothing, but I'm tired in body and spirit. My conscience aches day and night, I feel deeply guilty but I don't understand where I am actually at fault. And add to that my wife's illness, my lack of money, the constant bickering, gossip, unnecessary conversations, that stupid Borkin... My home has become loathsome to me and I find living there worse than torture.”
― Anton Chekhov, Ivanov

“Innocence could be lost more than once after all.”
― Selena Kitt, Confession

“Guilt is a manifestation of condemnation or aversion towards oneself, which does not understand the changing transformative quality of mind.

'Seeking the Heart of Wisdom”
― Joseph Goldstein

“Guilt is intense. Suffocating. A brick, tied quietly around your ankles while you sleep. You never fall slowly into guilt-you wake up with little time to take your last breath before being pulled under.”
― Andrea Randall, In the Stillness

“I had to sever my emotional cord to escape the anger and shame that silently slithered through my head, disconnecting myself from the stares and whispers that followed me down the hall.”
― Rebecca Donovan, Reason to Breathe

“We emerge into the light not by denying our pain, but by walking through it.”
― Joan Borysenko PH.D

“Never be afraid when God brings back your past. Let your memory have its way with you. It is a minister of God bringing its rebuke and sorrow to you.”
― Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest

“Coming to terms with incest is not easy. Learning to be a survivor, not a victim, gives new meaning to life”
― Lynette Gould, Heart of Darkness: How I Triumphed Over a Childhood of Abuse

“Our guilt has its uses. It justifies much in the lives of others.”
― Max Frisch, Montauk

“Many deeply hidden memories have come flooding back. The important message here though is that it is possible to heal and survive. Everyone has survived their own kind of emotional or mental trauma. We all have our inner fears and misreplaced feelings of guilt.”
― Lynette Gould, Heart of Darkness: How I Triumphed Over a Childhood of Abuse

“Part of the problem was that I couldn't seem to get past the fact that I hadn't tried to escape from Kas. Even in France, when he'd left me on my own for several days, I'd carried on working [as a prostitute] and doing all the things he'd told me to d. And although I knew that it was because of the fear he'd so carefully and deliberately instilled in me, I still felt as though I'd somehow colluded in what had happened to me - despite knowing, deep down, that nothing could have been further from the truth.”
― Sophie Hayes, Trafficked: The Terrifying True Story of a British Girl Forced into the Sex Trade

“I should have seen it coming.â€� The words don’t surprise me, but they piss me off. I pull away and glare down at her. “Don’t you fucking dare, Nell Hawthorne. Don’t you dare put this on yourself. You should never have to see shit like this coming.â€� She backs away, stunned and afraid by the intensity I know is radiating off me. “Colton, I just meant he’s always shown—â€� “Stop. Just stop right there. Granted, you should’ve never gotten involved with a douchetard like him, but that’s no excuse for what he did.”
― Jasinda Wilder

“Self redemption is the first step to exoneration from guilt.”
― Dennis E. Adonis

“I knew nothing of death, and, for some unexplainable reason, I was beginning to feel guilty for that. -Jessica”
― Shannon A. Thompson, Minutes Before Sunset

“Guilt wears track shoes. Sprint, marathon, or cross-country, it doesn’t matter. It runs tireless to catch you, and it carries a sledgehammer.”
― Jamie Mason

“I’d prefer you accuse my son, so he can defend his innocence rather than prolong unnecessary guilt." (Spoken by Bracke, told by Eric)”
― Shannon A. Thompson, Minutes Before Sunset

“The interruption did nothing but earn her a similar slap, as I’m sure she knew it would. Sometimes I wondered if my mother spoke up at the wrong time on purpose. As often as we endured my father’s abuse, she had to be aware that it wouldn’t save me from a beating but simply earn her one as well. Or was it that sharing my fate made her feel less guilt-ridden about those things that happened to me?”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Dandelions: The Disappearance of Annabelle Fancher

“God knows we all have to at least try to justify our behavior so we don't feel too guilty about it later.”
― Taylor Nadeau, The Death of Edwin Hubble

“Sou eu o culpado, mas não tenho culpa.”
― Tolstoi Liev

“The passive righteousness of faith frees me from passing final judgment on myself.”
― Tullian Tchividjian

“It dances on the air for a moment before it falls, too. A fresh gust of wind almost saves it, but a worker catches sight of it and lifts a tube up to suck the paper from the air, to suck the words from the sky.
I'm sorry, Grandfather.”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“There are some debts that can't be paid with money.”
― Steven J. Carroll, The Road to Jericho

“My conscience is crosswired with my sweat glands, but there's a short in the system and I break out over things I didn't do, which only makes me look more suspect.”
― David Sedaris, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim