Unfortunately, when someone asks me for a favor, I can't say no. Because of my upbringing - my Catholic guilt - if I don't do it, it plagues me.
I'm easily frightened, and I've also come to realize that old Catholic guilt or remorse is easily stimulated.
I think I have serious latent Catholic guilt issues.
There are times when you need to pitch a fit and other times when you need to apply Catholic guilt, and it's just figuring out which is the most appropriate approach and then implementing it.
The uniqueness of executive clemency lies in the president's power to act without weighing guilt, innocence and legal principle.
Canon law itself says for one case of guilt, a priest can be dismissed from the clerical state. One.
I don't believe in collective guilt, but I do believe in collective responsibility.
Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.
If I'm going to get an ice cream cone two or three times a week, then it's a pleasure. No guilt.
A god implants in mortal guilt whenever he wants utterly to confound a house.
Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal.
I don't have any gnawing guilt over contributing to any unhappiness suffered by my husbands. They were as much to blame as I was.
I've got the Jewish guilt and the Irish shame and it's a hell of a job distinguishing which is which.
My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
I have a high guilt quotient. A poem can go through as many as 50 or 60 drafts. It can take from a day to two years-or longer.
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
I have no qualms: no shame, no guilt, no embarrassment. I tend to act out a lot.
I expend far too much of my maternal energies on guilt and regret.
The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.
My son John was just under a year old when I collapsed with a life-threatening kidney disease. The shame and guilt resulting from my unplanned pregnancy had continued to fester to the point that my toxic feelings literally poisoned my body.
