Quotes about Shame
The mask was a thing on it's own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness.
- William Golding
The enemy works overtime to keep us in shame. He knows if he can keep us in shame, he can minimize our intimacy with God.
- Mike Bickle
Our natural inclination is to hide ourselves from God.
- RC Sproul
When we wallow in guilt, remorse, and shame over real or imagined sins of the past, we are disdaining God's gift of grace.
- Brennan Manning
Christ's crucifixion was on a hill, by a road, where everybody who passed by could not only see his pain, but also his shame. It was not done in a shadow, hidden away somewhere.
- Francis Schaeffer
The things you're most embarrassed about, most ashamed of, and most reluctant to share are the very tools God can use most powerfully to heal others
- Rick Warren
There are two restraints which God has laid upon human nature, shame and fear; shame is the weaker, and has place only in those in whom there are some reminders of virtue.
- John Tillotson
Doing things in secret that you are ashamed for others to know is practical atheism. God's knowing doesn't count?
- John Piper
O loving wisdom of our God when all was sin and shame, a second Adam to the fight and to the rescue came.
- John Henry Newman
I sat down in the sand, breathless with shame and failure. God, I thought, some defender of the weak. Some freedom fighter: Joan of Arc in sunscreen.
- Anne Lamott