guilt

Own thyself guilty of eternal death; and renounce all hope of ever being able to save thyself. Be it all thy hope, to be washed in His blood, and purified by His Spirit, who Himself bore all thy sins in His own body upon the tree.

—John Wesley

I can feel guilty about the past, apprehensive about the future, but only in the present can I act. The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

Abraham Maslow

Own thyself guilty of eternal death; and renounce all hope of ever being able to save thyself. Be it all thy hope, to be washed in His blood, and purified by His Spirit, who Himself bore all thy sins in His own body upon the tree.

—John Wesley

It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.

—Voltaire

There are people who take upon themselves the right to decide for others what their relationship to God and the world should be, and there are people—the vast majority—who give this right to others and blindly believe what they say. Both are equally guilty and pathetic.

—Leo Tolstoy

“If God takes away the guilt of sin, he is sure at the same time to remove the power of sin.”

Charles Spurgeon

Whether you like it or not, whether you understand it or not, sin is what you are guilty of in the sight of this holy God.

—Martyn Lloyd-Jones

“[…]there is pardon for the greatest guilt through faith in Jesus Christ, — that his precious blood, shed on Calvary’s cross, is able to cleanse from all sin of every kind, and that as many as believe in him are saved.”

– Charles Spurgeon

Dear to me is sleep: still more, being made of stone, while pain and guilt still linger here below, blindness and numbness–these please me alone; Then do not wake me, keep your voices low.

—Michelangelo

He who blushes is already guilty.

—Jean-Jacques Rousseau

For when the sense of religion diminishes, the notion of good and evil is erased, the sense of responsibility and guilt is suppressed, so that passion and lust have free rein and the wickedness of the heart breaks forth openly in the form of shameless evil acts.

—Herman Bavinck

Outward sins are sins majoris infamiae, of greatest scandal; but heart sins are oftentimes majoris reatus, sins of greater guilt.

—John Flavel

To complete the happiness of the redeemed; Christ is not only made of God unto them wisdom and righteousness, the one curing our ignorance, the other our guilt; but he is made sanctification also, to relieve us against the dominion and pollutions of our corruptions.

—John Flavel

My sin may be as high as the highest mountain, but the sacrifice that covers it is as high as the highest heaven; my guilt may be as deep as the ocean, but the atonement that swallows it up is as deep as eternity.

—R. A. Torrey

Why is the world at it is, and why are we ever guilty of sin? It is because we do not realize the holy character of God.

—Martyn Lloyd-Jones

He takes away the guilt of sin, from which the soul before saw no way how it was possible to be freed, and which, if it was not removed, led to eternal destruction.

—Jonathan Edwards