Shame can make you so angry you can barely function. It is the rage you feel when someone slights you because of the color of your... skin, your accent or the clothes you wear. The ultimate in shame, however, is the humiliation, self-blame you feel when someone has raped or abused you. In that instance, you turn your shame or rage on yourself, asking "What have I done wrong to be so abused?" With guilt we know what the wrong is, the car was stolen, the curfew was broken, the contract was bogus. Usually guilt is less intense and destructive an emotion than shame because it is less involved with the perception and evaluation of the whole self. With guilt there is a motivation to change, to make amends, and pay the dues.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Although the most incisive judges of the witches and even the witches themselves were convinced of the guilt of witchcraft, this g...uilt nevertheless did not exist. Thus it is with all guilt.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You shall not withhold the wages of poor and needy laborers, whether other Israelites or aliens who reside in your land in one of ...your towns. You shall pay them their wages daily before sunset, because they are poor and their livelihood depends on them; otherwise they might cry to the LORD against you, and you would incur guilt.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If you make a vow to the LORD your God, do not postpone fulfilling it; for the LORD your God will surely require it of you, and yo...u would incur guilt.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If we focus mostly on how we might have been partly or wholly to blame for what might have been less than a perfect, problem- free... childhood, our guilt will overwhelm their pain. It becomes a story about us, not them. . . . When we listen, accept, and acknowledge, we feel regret instead, which is simply guilt without neurosis.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven't done anything wrong: how noble! Whereas it is rather hard and certainly depre...ssing to admit guilt and to repent.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. I quit such odious subjects as soon as I can, impatient to restore every body, not great...ly in fault themselves, to tolerable comfort, and to have done with all the rest.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »