The result has been that although few conservative Presbyterian churches actually worship in the Puritan way, the Puritan theology of worship remains the standard orthodoxy among them. This discrepancy sometimes leads to guilty consciences.
~By John Frame ~
There is no point trying to figure out who is guilty or not at un-balancing the planet. I think we need to figure out and solve the problems together and not isolate from each other.
~By Sarah Polley ~
I suppose all of us - we have the old Protestant work ethic of feeling guilty when you're not working, and getting a buzz from feeling like you're really busy. That's the reason to sort of carry on.
~By Jonny Greenwood ~
I had concluded when I was the prosecutor that I would vote against the death penalty if I were in the legislature but that I could ask for it when I was satisfied as to guilt.
~By Janet Reno ~
'm really proud of it. To me, it's a movie about character behavior and the pecking order of the pack, as well as the central character's massive survival guilt.
~By Dwight Yoakam ~
To have guilt you've got to earn guilt, but sometimes when you earn it, you don't feel the guilt you ought to have. And that's what The Firebombing is about.
~By James Dickey ~
Turn up your radio. Watch lots of telly and eat loads of choc. Feel guilty. Stay up all night. Learn everything in six hours that has taken you two years to compile. That's how I did it.
~By Dawn French ~
Parks said, he's guilty and that's the end of the story.
~By Tommy Bond ~
Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.
~By C. S. Lewis ~
I am guilty of asking the Senate for pork and proud of the Senate for giving it to me.
~By Ted Stevens ~
I think your program has to reflect what your basic feelings are. I'll plead guilty to that.
~By Frank Reynolds ~
When we played softball, I'd steal second base, feel guilty and go back.
~By Woody Allen ~
Hollywood people are filled with guilt: white guilt, liberal guilt, money guilt. They feel bad that they're so rich, they feel they don't work that much for all that money - and they don't, for the amount of money they make.
~By Drew Carey ~
I had a Christian upbringing - it was all about sin and guilt. I was very happy just kissing people. I was like the make-out queen - not even second base.
~By Mira Sorvino ~
Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.
~By Florence King ~
I don't feel guilt. Whatever I wish to do, I do.
~By Jeanne Moreau ~
December 25th has become guilt and obligation.
~By Phil Donahue ~
I hope and trust the infinite, the eternal, and merciful and loving God. I worship Him and feel no guilt in my heart before him for what I am going to do.
~By Alex Campbell ~
No one who's white thinks he's innocent. No one who's black thinks he's guilty.
~By Andrew Young ~
Loomis has always felt himself responsible for the fact that he did not stop Michael when he first murdered his sister, and so he's got that guilt to live with.
~By Donald Pleasence ~
False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.
~By Joseph De Maistre ~
Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety.
~By Jorge Luis Borges ~
I have a high guilt quotient. A poem can go through as many as 50 or 60 drafts. It can take from a day to two years-or longer.
~By Rita Dove ~
Wouldn't it be better to have a watertight law designed to catch the guilty, rather than a press release law designed to catch the headlines?
~By William Hague ~
Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?
~By Jean-Jacques Rousseau ~
Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.
~By Saint Aurelius Augustine ~
There is no such thing as collective guilt.
~By Kurt Waldheim ~
I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for alms from me, the rich man for the alms of my envy, the poor man for the alms of my guilt.
~By Ben Hecht ~
I don't feel guilty about expressing myself in French; nor do I feel that I am continuing the work of the colonizers.
~By Tahar Ben Jelloun ~
I don't believe in guilt, I believe in living on impulse as long as you never intentionally hurt another person, and don't judge people in your life. I think you should live completely free.
~By Angelina Jolie ~
When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer "Present" or "Not guilty."
~By Theodore Roosevelt ~
Strictly speaking, every citizen above a certain level of income is guilty of some offense.
~By Max Frisch ~
Here, I am looking for a document issued by a public attorney. I don't find. He is accused by the political leaders of the coalition, by his enemies, who said that he is guilty. That he deserves to be killed.
~By Jacques Verges ~
There's no regret. You can't regret. I mean, I've felt regret but I've also refused to allow regret to sow a seed and live in me because I don't believe it. You feel it, it's like guilt, it's like jealousy, it's like all those horrible things. You've just got to snip them and get them out, because they're no good.
~By Jude Law ~
I'm not doing my philanthropic work, out of any kind of guilt, or any need to create good public relations. I'm doing it because I can afford to do it, and I believe in it.
~By George Soros ~
I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.
~By Jim Carrey ~
I certainly have been guilty of trying to sweep things under the carpet.
~By Kenneth Branagh ~
A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased.
~By Hans Frank ~
Mars, when guilty of homicide, and set free from the charge of murder by the Athenians through favour, lest he should appear to be too fierce and savage, committed adultery with Venus.
~By Lactantius ~
I am frivolous. Then I feel guilty.
~By Catherine Deneuve ~
I walk around feeling a sort of existential guilt all the time; and honestly for me this house is a way of feeling less guilty about the universe.
~By Julia Louis Dreyfus ~
Just because you're convicted in a court room doesn't mean you're guilty of something.
~By Charles Manson ~
A god implants in mortal guilt whenever he wants utterly to confound a house.
~By Aeschylus ~
In this rat-race everybody's guilty till proved innocent!
~By Bette Davis ~
We have no choice but to be guilty. God is unthinkable if we are innocent.
~By Archibald MacLeish ~
Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.
~By Lillian Hellman ~
Luther was guilty of two great crimes - he struck the Pope in his crown, and the monks in their belly.
~By Desiderius Erasmus ~
What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.
~By Nathaniel Hawthorne ~
Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
~By J. K. Rowling ~
I am having so much fun performing, I feel almost guilty. I think, my God, I hope no one comes and busts me for this.
~By David Crosby ~
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
~By Jane Austen ~
Men tend to feel threatened; women tend to feel guilty.
~By Edwin Louis Cole ~
I'm guilty of extraordinary naivete, I suppose. But it's a naivete that I really don't want to abandon, not even now.
~By Jock Sturges ~
Guilt is the price we pay willingly for doing what we are going to do anyway.
~By Isabelle Holland ~
No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
~By Alan Watts ~
I watched the entire O.J. Simpson trial, and he was guilty.
~By Connie Willis ~
God cannot approve of a system of servitude, in which the master is guilty of assuming absolute power - of assuming God's place and relation towards his fellow-men.
~By Gerrit Smith ~
We are 5 percent of the global population and consume a third of the total resources - on some level we should all feel guilty relative to the world.
~By Julia Louis Dreyfus ~
We know that we are not collectively guilty, so how can we accuse any other nation, no matter what some of its people have done, of being collectively guilty?
~By Simon Wiesenthal ~
My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
~By Franz Kafka ~
When one person makes an accusation, check to be sure he himself is not the guilty one. Sometimes it is those whose case is weak who make the most clamour.
~By Piers Anthony ~
'Project Runway' was my guilty pleasure while my son was napping or nursing.
~By Debra Messing ~
The action carries a sense of incompleteness and frustration, but not of guilt. Victorious living does not mean perfect living in the sense of living without flaw, but it does mean adequate living, and that can be consistent with many mistakes.
~By E. Stanley Jones ~
Canon law itself says for one case of guilt, a priest can be dismissed from the clerical state. One.
~By Roger Mahony ~
It is better to kill one hundred innocents than to let one guilty person go.
~By Dolores Ibarruri ~
The treason of which I stand convicted loses all its guilt, has been sanctified as a duty, and will be ennobled as a sacrifice.
~By Thomas Francis Meagher ~
Very few men imprisoned for economic crimes or even crimes of passion against the oppressor feel that they are really guilty.
~By George Jackson ~
What I have in common with the character in 'Truman' is this incredible need to please people. I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.
~By Jim Carrey ~
Every guilty person is his own hangman.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
It was the king's army, the king's people, the king's taxes; and he who questioned the propriety of the royal prerogative of taking from his people without return or accounting, was reckoned, and felt himself to be, a criminal, guilty of the highest crime of disloyalty.
~By John Buchanan Robinson ~
Any father whose son raises his hand against him is guilty of having produced a son who raised his hand against him.
~By Charles Peguy ~
Those who have experienced the most, have suffered so much that they have ceased to hate. Hate is more for those with a slightly guilty conscience, and who by chewing on old hate in times of peace wish to demonstrate how great they were during the war.
~By Thor Heyerdahl ~
I find that people... very few people think that what they're doing is bad, and usually the people who think what they're doing is bad it has more to do with guilt.
~By Jon Favreau ~
I wanted to show a normal young girl whose only difference was that she behaved in the way a boy might, without any sense of guilt on a moral or sexual level.
~By Roger Vadim ~
My creativity and my political work are linked. I don't do this work out of guilt or out of responsibility.
~By Holly Near ~
Guilt: punishing yourself before God doesn't.
~By Alan Cohen ~
Sin, guilt, neurosis; they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.
~By Henry Miller ~
When a person is found less guilty than he is suspected, he is concluded more innocent than he really is.
~By Charlotte Lennox ~
Many working mothers feel guilty about not being at home. And when they are there, they wish it could be perfect. This pressure to make every minute happy puts working parents in a bind when it comes to setting limits and modifying behavior.
~By Cathy Rindner Tempelsman ~
Part of the public horror of sexual irregularity so-called is due to the fact that everyone knows himself essentially guilty.
~By Aleister Crowley ~
This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.
~By Juvenal ~
Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them, must share the guilt for the dead.
~By Omar N. Bradley ~
What is guilt? Guilt is the pledge drive constantly hammering in our heads that keeps us from fully enjoying the show. Guilt is the reason they put the articles in Playboy.
~By Dennis Miller ~
I am not guilty, I am innocent.
~By Saddam Hussein ~
Hang me if I'm guilty.
~By Salman Khan ~
In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.
~By Immanuel Kant ~
I am not going to answer to this so-called court, out of respect for the truth and the will of the Iraqi people. I've said what I've said, and I'm not guilty.
~By Saddam Hussein ~
He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections.
~By Samuel Adams ~
We are guilty for sending teams into foreign countries to advise them how to be like us.
~By Arthur Erickson ~
If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.
~By Charlotte Bronte ~
The Supreme Court of the United States is hereby commanded to try Andrew Johnson for usurpation of our Imperial authority and prerogatives, and if found guilty, behead him or send him here to black the Emperor's boots.
~By Joshua A. Norton ~
The denominational world tries to pressure its members to focus on the birth of Christ, but in doing so layers of guilt are imposed, and competition gets complicated as one Christmas program tries to outdo the other.
~By John Clayton ~
Hard though it may be to accept, remember that guilt is sometimes a friendly internal voice reminding you that you're messing up.
~By Marge Kennedy ~
My parents are really well intended, and I think their way of dealing with things is denial and guilt. Nobody wanted to talk about it. But all I did was blame myself.
~By Teri Hatcher ~
The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
~By Geoffrey Chaucer ~
Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
~By Henry Fielding ~
The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
I'm happiest at home hanging out with the kids... Having a family has been my saving grace because I don't work back to back on anything or I'd drive myself to an early grave with guilt and worry for my family, whom I'd never see.
~By Jude Law ~
Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.
~By Jean-Jacques Rousseau ~
That's what noir feels like to me. It feels like some kind of recurring dream, with very strong archetypes operating. You know, the guilty girl being pursued, falling, all kinds of stuff that we see in our dreams all the time.
~By Brian De Palma ~
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