Quotes about Shame

The shame I feel as a Catholic Christian, aware in detail of the ways that the Church sanctified the hatred of Jews, not only betraying Jesus but tilling the soil out of which would come the worst crime in history, is shame not only at what my people did, but at what I can now admit I might well have done myself.

God can and will wipe all that shame and sadness away if you will only repent.

We're often ashamed of asking for so much help because it seems selfish or petty or narcissistic, but I think, if there's a God - and I believe there is - that God is there to help. That's what God's job is.

Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed.

Ah! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him.

It's a burden to us even to be human beings-men with our own real body and blood; we are ashamed of it, we think it a disgrace and try to contrive to be some sort of impossible generalized man.

Every prison that men build Is built with bricks of shame, And bound with bars lest Christ should see How men their brothers maim.

If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance.

Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.

My message to the international community is that our silence and complicity especially on the situation in Gaza shames us all. It is almost like the behaviour of the military junta in Burma.

Guilt is just as powerful, but its influence is positive, while shame's is destructive. Shame erodes our courage and fuels disengagement.

Wicked people means people who have no love: therefore, they have no shame. They have the power to ask love because the don't need it: they have the power to offer it because they have none to give.