John Tillotson Quotes

If anyone has a conscience it's generally a guilty one.

Guilt agonizes over trifles, ignores habitual wrongdoing.

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.

A guilty conscience means at least you have one.

Sin and shame ever go together; he that would be freed from the last must be sure to shun the company of the first.

To have a sense of sin means to feel guilty at there being an ethical choice to make, a guilt which, however "good" I may become, remains unchanged.

Conscience is a thousand swords.

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.

There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.

Conscience: something that feels terrible when everything else feels well.

A conscience is that still small voice that people won't listen to.

One can no more keep the mind from returning to an idea than the sea from returning to a shore. For a sailor, this is called the tide; in the case of the guilty it is called remorse. God stirs up the soul as well as the ocean.

A guilty conscience never feels secure.

I'll not meddle with it; it is a dangerous thing; it makes a man a coward; a man cannot steal, but it accuseth him; a man cannot swear, but it checks him; a man cannot lie with his neighbor's wife, but it detects him. 'Tis a blushing, shame -faced spirit, that mutinies in a man's bosom ; it fills one full of obstacles; it made me once restore a purse of gold that by chance I found; it beggars any man that keeps it; it is turned out of all towns and cities for a dangerous thing; and every man that means to live well endeavors to trust to himself and live without it.

I felt for my crime a just terror; I looked on my life with hate, and my passion with horror.

Conscience ... seldom comes to a man's aid while he is in the zenith of health and revelling in pomp and luxury upon illgotten spoils. It is generally the last act of his life, and it comes too late to be of much service to others here, or to himself hereafter.

Once or twice in my career I feel that I have done more real harm by my discovery of the criminal than ever he had done by his crime. I have learned caution now, and I had rather play tricks with the law of England than with my own conscience.

Conscience is its own readiest accuser.

There are some things we should feel guilty about, but the guilt feelings should attach to the deed, not to the doer.

There is a guilty conscience behind every brazen word and act and behind every manifestation of self-righteousness.

People do not avoid the Bible because it is difficult to understand as much as because what they understand condemns their conscience and throws light on dark corners in their lives which they prefer to keep dark.

How can one be well...when one suffers morally?

Guilt once harbored in the conscious breast, intimidates the brave, degrades the great.