Quotes about Guilt

Let a man be right with God, reconciled through the blood of the cross, humbled at the foot of Calvary; let him be broken, coming to God guilty and hopeless and needy; and at that moment God takes hold of him and transforms and uses all his gifts and qualities, until that man becomes a mighty influence. But he has first to come down from his ladder of pride to the very foot of the cross.

Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.

For if God Himself became man, this man, what else can this mean but that He declared himself guilty of the contradiction against Himself

There is no man that is knowingly wicked but is guilty to himself; and there is no man that carries guilt about him but he receives a sting in his soul.

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

The man with a clear conscience probably has a poor memory.

A man guilty of poverty easily believes himself suspected.

He [man] knows that when he is not what he ought to be; when he does what he ought not to do; or omits what he ought to do, he is chargeable with sin

All men alike stand condemned, not by alien codes of ethics, but by their own, and all men therefore are conscious of guilt.

The moral man is as guilty as the rest. His morality cannot save him.

The guilty man may escape, but he cannot be sure of doing so.

Thus, as a result of heightened consciousness, a man feels as if it's all right if he's bad as long as he knows it- as though that were any consolation.