Quotes about Shame

But am I the One they are provoking? declares the LORD. Is it not themselves they spite, to their own shame?

One useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three is a Congress.

He who corrects a mocker brings shame on himself; he who rebukes a wicked man taints himself.

Be ashamed, O Sidon, the stronghold of the sea, for the sea has spoken: “I have not been in labor or given birth. I have not raised young men or brought up young women.”

Instead of fragrance there will be a stench; instead of a belt, a rope; instead of styled hair, baldness; instead of fine clothing, sackcloth; instead of beauty, shame.

The voices of condemnation, shame, and rejection can come at you, but they don't have to reside in you. That's your miracle in the mess.

and he then accuses her of shameful conduct and gives her a bad name, saying, “I married this woman and had relations with her, but I discovered she was not a virgin.”

Behold, O Lord, that I am indignant with myself, for my senseless, profitless, hurtful, perilous passions; that I loathe myself, for these inordinate, unseemly, deformed, false, shameful, disgraceful passions; that my confusion is daily before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me. Alas! woe, woe! O me, how long?

Since the desires for power and control are in every heart, you don't have to look overseas for lawless brutality. It happens every day between parents and children, boyfriends and girlfriends, husbands and wives. Where there is injustice, shame will be part of its fallout.

if I have covered my transgressions like Adam by hiding my guilt in my heart,

Sin has the devil for its father, shame for its companion, and death for its wages.

A wife of noble character is her husband’s crown, but she who causes shame is like decay in his bones.