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    Blake Edwards
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    Shame is an unhappy emotion invented by pietists in order to exploit the human race.

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    Brené Brown
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    Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It's the fear that we're not good enough.

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    C. S. Lewis
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    Romans 8:1, Isaiah 61:7, Hebrews 12:2, Psalm 34:5, Romans 10:11, 1 John 1:9, 2 Timothy 1:7
    I sometimes think that shame, mere awkward, senseless shame, does as much towards preventing good acts and straightforward happiness as any of our vices can do.

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    John Milton
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    Where shame is, there is also fear.

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    Curt Thompson
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    Despite all we know about shame, containing it, let alone disposing of it, is a bit like grasping for mercury: the more pressure you use to seize it, the more evasive it becomes . . . It is ubiquitous...

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    Brené Brown
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    I believe that there is a profound difference between shame and guilt. I believe that guilt is adaptive and helpful – it’s holding something we’ve done or failed to do up against our values and feelin...

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    Benjamin Franklin
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    Matthew 5:23-24, Proverbs 16:32, Colossians 3:8, Ephesians 4:26-27, Proverbs 15:18, Proverbs 14:29, James 1:19-20
    Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

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    Gregory of Nyssa
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    2 Corinthians 3:18, Psalm 34:5, Isaiah 61:7, Hebrews 12:2, Romans 10:11, Isaiah 54:4, Psalm 139:14
    Our godlike beauty is hidden beneath curtains of shame.

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    Brené Brown
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    If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can't survive.

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    Brené Brown
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    Perfectionism is not a way to avoid shame. Perfectionism is a form of shame.

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    June Price Tangney
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    One of the most hopeful and gratifying conclusions to come out of our 12 years of research on shame and guilt is that that notion of morality is wrong. Dead wrong. You don't have to feel really ba...

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    John Updike
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    From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few.

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    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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    Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and ...

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    Anonymous Citizen of Guina-Bissau
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    When I don’t have any [food to bring my family], I borrow, mainly from neighbors and friends. I feel ashamed standing before my children when I have nothing to help feed the family. I’m not well when ...

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    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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    I believe that as often as I transgress, God is more ready to forgive me than I am ready to offend.

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    Simon Tugwell
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    And so, like runaway slaves, we either flee our own reality or manufacture a false self which is mostly admirable, mildly prepossessing, and superficially happy. We hide what we know or feel ourselves...

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    George Bernard Shaw
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    If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

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    Martin Luther
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    Luke 5:31-32, 1 Timothy 1:15, 1 John 1:9, Romans 5:6-8, Mark 2:17, Isaiah 1:18, Micah 7:18-19
    It is quite enough that you have sinned. Now let go of it. Don’t let your despondency lead to an even greater offence. The Lord says, ‘I do not wish the death of the sinner, but rather that he repent ...

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    Helen Keller
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    Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the face.

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    Voddie Baucham
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    Guilt comes from within. Shame comes from without.

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    Jonathan Swift
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    Tell truth, and shame the devil.

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    Mike Martin
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    Evading self-acknowledgment of our faults enables us to avoid painful moral emotions: guilt and remorse for harming others; shame for betraying your own ideals; self-contempt for not meeting even our ...

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    Brennan Manning
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    2 Corinthians 1:3-4, Psalm 34:18, Ephesians 5:13, Romans 8:28, Galatians 6:2
    In a futile attempt to erase our past, we deprive the community of our healing gift. If we conceal our wounds out of fear and shame, our inner darkness can neither be illuminated nor become a light fo...

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    Norman Wirzba
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    There is an integrity to creation that depends on humans seeing themselves as properly placed within a network of creation and God. The drama shows us that neither God nor the creation itself can tole...

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    Johannes Kepler
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    Temporis filia veritas; cui me obstetricari non pudet. Translation: Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife.

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    George W. Bush
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    There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again.

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    Madeleine L'Engle
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    Romans 5:8, John 1:1-10, Luke 5:31-32, Isaiah 9:2, Isaiah 12:5-6, Luke 2:10-11
    He did not wait till the world was ready, till men and nations were at peace He came when the Heavens were unsteady and prisoners cried out for release. He did not wait for the perfect time. He came w...

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    Don Draper
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    Don Draper: This is the greatest advertising opportunity since the invention of cereal. We have six identical companies making six identical products. We can say anything we want. How do you make your...

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    Blaise Pascal
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    Kind words produce their own image in men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They soothe and quiet and comfort the hearer. They shame him out of his sour, morose, unkind feelings. We have not y...

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    Marc Lewis
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    Jeremiah 29:11, 1 John 1:9, Psalm 32:5, Romans 8:1, Isaiah 43:18-19
    I see my past drinking as a behavioral problem, a learned response to dealing (or not dealing) with emotional pain and stress. Once I achieved the excavation of my wounds, I no longer lived with the s...
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