Quotes about Shame

Many people are driven by guilt. They spend their entire lives running from regrets and hiding their shame. Guilt-driven people are manipulated by memories. They allow their past to control their future. They often unconsciously punish themselves by sabotaging their own success.

What will be left of the power of example if it is proved that capital punishment has another power, and a very real one, which degrades men to the point of shame, madness, and murder?

Only the Lord Jesus can redeem the soul that is steeped in guilt and shame. This baggage weighs us down until we accept Jesus' gift-the gift that liberates souls from sin's power.

A vile race of quislings—to use the new word which will carry the scorn of mankind down the centuries.

To live is to betray the dead. We hasten to bury and forget them because we are ashamed; we feel guilty towards them.

Whoever is ashamed of marriage is also ashamed of being thought a man, or else he thinks that he can make himself better than God made him.

I'm enormously proud of being the ancestor of a convict. That's mad, isn't it, but I really am.

The custom of sinning takes away the sense of it, the course of the world takes away the shame of it.

Your a skid-mark on the underwear of humanity. -Ostin Liss

You're a skid-mark on the underwear of humanity. -Ostin Liss

The fears that assault us are mostly simple anxieties about social skills, about intimacy, about likeableness, or about performance. We need not give emotional food or charge to these fears or become attached to them. We don't even have to shame ourselves for having these fears. Simply ask your fears, "What are you trying to teach me?" Some say that FEAR is merely an acronym for "False Evidence Appearing Real." From Everything Belongs, p. 143

You're only as sick as your secrets.