875 Quotes About Shame

As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us." God wouldn't want you to remain a prisoner of your shame, Olivia. You are His beloved child, forgiven and redeemed. Be brave enough to claim the happiness He has in store for you.

Shame squats over my face and sits.

No one ever gets mad at being shamed by someone unless some shame is felt.

...if a human knows shame then he knows boundaries, and if he knows boundaries then he's reliable.

I may be trash, but at least I’m majestic trash.

Shame is to feel ashamed over some shameful deed which the shameless doesn’t consider to be shameful.

Shame gives me the ability to split myself into the first and third person. To recognize myself, as Sartre writes, “as the Other sees me.

Shame is perhaps best described as the experience attached to a person's profound and painful sense that they are in some way fundamentally flawed, or that something is wrong with them in terms of their being. It has been distinguished from its close relative, guilt, as something that relates to who or what somebody is as opposed to what they have done.

Hannah,” Ms. Carpenter says softly. I think we all hide from God sometimes. We all have things we’re ashamed of. The essential thing is that you work through it.” “How am I supposed to do that?” Ms. Carpenter turns her head from side to side, her eyes glazed over in thought. “You refuse to be imprisoned by that shame. You realize that you are good – you are good because God made you – and you claim that goodness.