Elizabeth Strout Quotes

I'm just a good Catholic boy - I do naughty things and feel guilty about them.

I was brought up a Catholic, so I take no pleasure in guilt.

I spent my entire Irish Catholic youth in a constant state of guilt over imaginary sins. I learned that nothing is a sin as long as you don't take pleasure from it.

Being raised Catholic myself, I think people who are Catholic tend to carry a lot of guilt. It's almost a joke.

I was brought up a Catholic, for that you get an A level in guilt.

And I'm a Catholic, from an Irish Catholic family, and we know plenty of stuff about guilt.

I always know it's Sunday because I wake up feeling apologetic. That's one of the cool things about being a Catholic . . . it's a multifaceted experience. If you lose the faith, chances are you'll keep the guilt, so it isn't as if you've been skunked altogether.

I don't think you can be a Catholic without an accompanying measure of guilt.

We have no choice but to be guilty. God is unthinkable if we are innocent.

Then, in the next place, we must know that every being which is endowed with reason, and transgresses its statutes and limitations, is undoubtedly involved in sin by swerving from rectitude and justice.

I was raised Catholic, and I can get incredibly guilty about mistakes.

Behold, I am become a reproach to thy holy name, by serving any ambition and the sins of others; which though I did by the persuasion of other men, yet my own conscience did cheek and upbraid me in it.

Perhaps it's a curse, but when you are a Lutheran, you have a sense of responsibility.

I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt.

The Anglo-Saxon conscience does not prevent the Anglo-Saxon from sinning, it merely prevents him from enjoying his sin.

Truth is, I'm a good Catholic girl. The faith has always been elusive, but the guilt is intractable.

I feel like if I am physically and emotionally able to be at the theater, I will be there. I don't like not being there - I don't like playing hooky. I am just one of those people who feels really, really guilty if I am not there - maybe it's part of being Catholic.

I was brought up as a Catholic. I've got A-level guilt.

Every man has a paradise around him till he sins, and the angel of an accusing conscience drives him from his Eden.

Guilt is a spiritual Rubicon.

My sin is the black spot which my bad act makes, seen against the disk of the Sun of Righteousness. Hence religion and sin come and go together.

A guilty conscience means at least you have one.

Whoever despiseth shame, despiseth sin.

I think once a Catholic, always a Catholic. You never escape. I still have Catholic guilt. It is in its basis a really powerful religion and a really strong set of beliefs. They permeate my work in many ways.

Not until we take God seriously will we ever take sin seriously.