Vance Havner Quotes

The theme is the theme of humiliation, which is the square root of sin, as opposed to the freedom from humiliation, and love, which is the square root of wonderful.

Sister, I won't ask for forgiveness, my sins are all I have.

Losse embraceth shame.

I'm ashamed of what I did.

The time will come when it will disgust you to look in the mirror.

You will put on a dress of guilt and shoes with broken high ideals.

The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.

The custom of sinning takes away the sense of it, the course of the world takes away the shame of it.

I feel terrible about it. Part of it is the horror of what happened and part of it is my guilt about being a part of it.

I apologise now to everybody for being the way I've been. What I was doing, torturing myself over an illness, is horrible. You push them away because you're trying to quantify what's gone on.

The difference between guilt and shame is very clear--in theory. We feel guilty for what we do. We feel shame for what we are. A person feels guilt because he did something wrong. A person feels shame because he is something wrong. We may feel guilty because we lied to our mother. We may feel shame because we are not the person our mother wanted us to be.

She went to the window seat and sat there, sniffling, hating them all, and herself most of all. It was all her fault, everything bad that had happened.

Alone, he must bear the weight of a sin he dare not confess to the one person he loves…and has lost.

I always felt guilty. My whole life.

Shame is the dying embers of virtue.

How awful is that hour when con, science stings.

There is no defence for my actions which I sincerely regret. [on an affair with nanny Daisy Wright]

I held her wrists and then I got it through the eyes: hatred, centuries deep and true. I was wrong and graceless and sick. all the things I had learned had been wasted. there was no creature living as foul as I and all my poems were false.

A lover would find life less broken apart after a misguided love affair if they could feel that they had been sinful rather than foolish.

I know that I brought this all on myself. I know that I deserve this. I'd do anything not to be this way. I'd do anything to make it up to everyone. And to not have to see a psychiatrist, who explains to me about being "passive aggressive.

Yes, there is something in me hateful, repulsive," thought Ljewin, as he came away from the Schtscherbazkijs', and walked in the direction of his brother's lodgings. "And I don't get on with other people. Pride, they say. No, I have no pride. If I had any pride, I should not have put myself in such a position".

Guilt: I'm sorry. I made a mistake. Shame: I'm sorry. I am a mistake.

Guilt is the very nerve of sorrow.

According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride.