Guilt Quotations

The guilty are alarmed and turn pale at the slightest thunder.

For whoever meditates a crime is guilty of the deed.

Every fault of the mind becomes more conspicuous and more guilty in proportion to the rank of the offender

By his own verdict no guilty man was ever acquitted.

This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.

He who meditates a crime secretly within himself has all the guilt of the act.

For whoever meditates a crime is guilty of the deed. [Lat., Nam scelus intra se tacitum qui cogitat ullum, Facti crimen habet.]

Every vice makes its guilt the more conspicuous in proportion to the rank of the offender. [Lat., Omne animi vitium tanto conspectius in se Crimen habet, quanto major qui peccat habetur.]

Whatever guilt is perpetrated by some evil prompting, is grievous to the author of the crime. This is the first punishment of guilt that no one who is guilty is acquitted at the judgment seat of his own conscience. [Lat., Exemplo quodcumque malo committitur, ipsi Displicet auctori. Prima est haec ultio, quod se Judice nemo nocens absolvitur.]

As mercy is God's goodness confronting human misery and guilt, so grace is his goodness directed toward human debt and demerit.