Quotes about Shame

And the look of the bay mare shames silliness out of me.

It is too embarrassing to name and own one's deep failings; as long as they are unvoiced, we may be allowed to pretend it is not so.

what interests us more is that a parable is the chosen mode of communication. Indeed, it must be.33 One cannot address royal power directly, especially royal power so deeply guilty and shamed. It is permissible to talk about speaking truth to power; but if truth is to have a chance with power, it must be done with some subtlety.34

The shame I feel as a Catholic Christian, aware in detail of the ways that the Church sanctified the hatred of Jews, not only betraying Jesus but tilling the soil out of which would come the worst crime in history, is shame not only at what my people did, but at what I can now admit I might well have done myself.

God can and will wipe all that shame and sadness away if you will only repent.

We're often ashamed of asking for so much help because it seems selfish or petty or narcissistic, but I think, if there's a God - and I believe there is - that God is there to help. That's what God's job is.

Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed.

Ah! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him.

It's a burden to us even to be human beings-men with our own real body and blood; we are ashamed of it, we think it a disgrace and try to contrive to be some sort of impossible generalized man.

Every prison that men build Is built with bricks of shame, And bound with bars lest Christ should see How men their brothers maim.

If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance.

Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.