I don't want your children to bear
the guilt of your misery.
Not exact matches
Misery, sorrow, poverty, loneliness, helplessness, and
guilt mean something different in the eyes
of God than according to human judgment; that God turns toward the very places from which humans turn away; that Christ was born in a stable because there was no room for him in the inn — a prisoner grasps this better than others.
Awareness
of how far short
of the new creation he fell had fueled his
guilt and
misery, even as he interpreted the depressive attacks as failure to live in Christ.
That the life
of selfish ambition, the struggle for autonomy, acquisition, and success, and attachment to finite goods lead in the end to
misery, conflict,
guilt, despair, boredom, and frustration.
She said that for Reinhold the Christian faith was «a present fact, and a present truth about life that illumines our existence and gives meaning, relieves us
of some
of the
miseries of guilt in which all men are involved,..
You can induce all the
misery and
guilt on your children and leave them shells
of their potential.
A great many different motives may lead to an action
of this kind; indeed in cases where it is an act
of despair, performed in circumstances
of extreme human or economic destitution and
misery, the
guilt may often lie rather with the community than with the individual.
... Delight in smooth - sounding platitudes, refusal to face unpleasant facts, desire for popularity and electoral success irrespective
of the vital interests
of the State, genuine love
of peace and pathetic belief that love can be its sole foundation, obvious lack
of intellectual vigour in both leaders
of the British Coalition Government, marked ignorance
of Europe and aversion from its problems in Mr. Baldwin, the strong and violent pacifism which at this time dominated the Labour - Socialist Party, the utter devotion
of the Liberals to sentiment apart from reality, the failure and worse than failure
of Mr. Lloyd George, the erstwhile great war - time leader, to address himself to the continuity
of his work, the whole supported by overwhelming majorities in both Houses
of Parliament: all these constituted a picture
of British fatuity and fecklessness which, though devoid
of guile, was not devoid
of guilt, and, though free from wickedness or evil design, played a definite part in the unleashing upon the world
of horrors and
miseries which, even so far as they have unfolded, are already beyond comparison in human experience.
I think without meeting Ona, Belle would have been stuck in the
misery of missing her child and the
guilt of feeling responsible for his death.
And the
guilt will slowly poison their souls, as the weight
of obligation crushes their spirits and creates yet more
misery in their otherwise likely empty and meaningless existences.
The human condition in all its pathos,
misery and beauty — youth and maturity, love, loss and lust, intimacy, shame,
guilt, grief, crisis and death — is the driving force
of her art, which is tantamount to a visible manifestation
of different existential states.
I'm such a seething hotbed
of guilt I should have been born Catholic... For example, I was crushed by regret last week after flying off the handle and saying something that set a whole spiral
of misery in motion.