Quotes about Guilt

In Adam's fallWe sinned all.

The voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground.

Hail to you gods…On that day of the great reckoning.Behold me, I have come to you,Without sin, without guilt, without evil,Without a witness against me,Without one whom I have wronged….Rescue me, protect me,Do not accuse me before the great god!I am one pure of mouth, pure of hands.

I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.

Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa [Through my fault, through my fault, through my most grievous fault].

Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.

Your blood be upon your own heads.

Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue.

A guilty conscience needs no accuser.

Paul calls these Powers by the names of Sin and Death. These Powers cannot be accounted for simply as the product of individual guilt.

How could a woman who had an abortion not feel guilt or some sense of remorse? How could she justify what she'd done? Whom else could she blame when everyone was telling her it's her choice? Without facing the truth and confessing it, how could she be forgiven Who could she be restored? How could she be free?

It's not easy for me either, but if we allow anger to reside in us, we're more guilty than they are because we know the better way.