Quotes about Shame
My message to the international community is that our silence and complicity especially on the situation in Gaza shames us all. It is almost like the behaviour of the military junta in Burma.
— Desmond Tutu
Guilt is just as powerful, but its influence is positive, while shame's is destructive. Shame erodes our courage and fuels disengagement.
— Brene Brown
Wicked people means people who have no love: therefore, they have no shame. They have the power to ask love because the don't need it: they have the power to offer it because they have none to give.
— George Bernard Shaw
The mask was a thing on it's own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness.
— William Golding
The enemy works overtime to keep us in shame. He knows if he can keep us in shame, he can minimize our intimacy with God.
— Mike Bickle
Our natural inclination is to hide ourselves from God.
— RC Sproul
When we wallow in guilt, remorse, and shame over real or imagined sins of the past, we are disdaining God's gift of grace.
— Brennan Manning
Christ's crucifixion was on a hill, by a road, where everybody who passed by could not only see his pain, but also his shame. It was not done in a shadow, hidden away somewhere.
— Francis Schaeffer
The things you're most embarrassed about, most ashamed of, and most reluctant to share are the very tools God can use most powerfully to heal others
— Rick Warren
There are two restraints which God has laid upon human nature, shame and fear; shame is the weaker, and has place only in those in whom there are some reminders of virtue.
— John Tillotson
Doing things in secret that you are ashamed for others to know is practical atheism. God's knowing doesn't count?
— John Piper
O loving wisdom of our God when all was sin and shame, a second Adam to the fight and to the rescue came.
— John Henry Newman