Killer Mike Quotes

What if I forgave myself? I thought. What if I forgave myself even though I'd done something I shouldn't have? What if I was a liar and a cheat and there was no excuse for what I'd done other than because it was what I wanted and needed to do? What if I was never redeemed? What if I already was?

To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.

God forgive me if I do wrong in following with ardor the strongest instincts of my nature.

I wish people wouldn't think of me as a saint - unless they agree with the definition of a saint that a saint's a sinner who goes on trying.

One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart.

All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks.

Now, I don't want to get off on a rant here, but guilt is simply God's way of letting you know that you're having too good a time.

We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the result of good or evil motives.

I really believe guilt finds its way out of a person.

I know I may have done some bad things, but I'm not a bad person.

The truth doesn't lie. It's up in your face. It's in your conscience. It challenges your very being with the intention of cleaning you of sin and its influence.

Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passions, which by conscience or by habit pursue us with a relentlessness past the power of figure to express.

... sufficient conscience to bother him, but not sufficient to keep him straight.

I enjoy played flawed men who are pushed to the limit, who make mistakes and then have to recover.

I've been a sinner and a saint. If you've been a saint all your life, it's pretty easy to sleep at night. If you've been a sinner, you're just as comfortable in it.

he was trying to convince himself that he wasn't guilty.

Every one of us has a bad conscience, which he tries to escape by going to sleep as quickly as possible.

And I guess you judge how well you're doing by how well you sleep at night... and what your dreams are like.

The saint endeavors to recover a gift which he has lost; the sinner tries to obtain something which was never his. In brief, he repeats the Fall.

I was a sinner. I knew that without a doubt. But I was not alone. And the night was the accomplice of us all.

Delia picked at the raw sores of her conscience...Drunk or sober, Delia lived in the small town in her heart, ignoring the world in which all her love had turned to grief.

I got the best of Jesus. He got the worst of me.

I am not a monster. I'm not all bad. Maybe 10 percent. I think I'm 90 percent good.

The debts we owe ourselves are the hardest to pay.