Rose Macaulay Quotes

There is little hope of the repentance and redemption of certain some until they have committed one or another of the many wrong things of which they are daily, through a course of unrestrained selfishness, becoming more and more capable.

Where does guilt and punishment lie, and are we not more expressive over remorse or guilt when other people see the badness in us?

There's no question that I've done wrong. I take full responsibility for having done wrong. I will regret for the rest of my life the pain and the harm that I've caused to others. But I did not break the law.

I didn't have evil intentions, but I guess I did have power.

The Boogeyman is your conscience. The Boogeyman is the result of your own bad behavior. I love this Boogeyman.

For shameful deeds are taught by shameful deeds.

Every sin is the result of a collaboration.

You can have the most wonderful motives for what you do, but if what you do harms other people, you're fooling yourself.

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

I understand that I will be made to suffer for my actions.

It is bad for a young man to sin; but it is worse for an old man to sin.

I did a lot of things that I regretted and I certainly paid for my mistakes. You have to go and ask for forgiveness and it wasn't until I really started doing good and doing right, by other people as well as myself, that I really started to feel that guilt go away. So I don't have a problem going to sleep at night.

All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.

The price that one pays for refusing to act on the truth as one sees it, is to be led to believe untruth to avoid guilt.

I think guilt is directional. You should get rid of it, but the way to get rid of it is not to get rid of the guilt feelings. It is to get rid of the wrong that you did that caused the guilt feelings.

I've done a lot of bad things. Use your imagination.

I feel it's important to show that one thing that you do doesn't define you as a human being. It doesn't mean there aren't ramifications or you shouldn't pay for that but its not who you are.

As somebody once said, we're not punished for our sins, we're punished by them.

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.

Hardly any man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.

We should not be upset that others hide the truth from us, when we hide it so often from ourselves

I've been very clear publicly I'm not a perfect human being, and I've made mistakes in my life, and I've had to apologize to God and to seek reconciliation.

I'm not going to sit here and say I'm innocent, because I've done things. But to get the reputation that I've got, I don't think I've done enough. I don't have a criminal record.

Sometimes a certain innocence is good, but not about yourself.