“As soon as the Cross ceases to be to us, first of all, the place of utmost shame and contempt, we make the Cross of Christ of none effect.” FirstsChristEffectsCrossesShameCeaseContemptDiscernment Author:L. E. Maxwell
“The best time for marriage will be towards thirty, for as the younger times are unfit, either to choose or to govern a wife and family, so, if thou stay long, thou shalt hardly see the education of thy children, who, being left to strangers, are in effect lost; and better were it to be unborn than ill-bred; for thereby thy posterity shall either perish, or remain a shame to thy name.” IfsChildrenLongNamesLostLeftWifeEffectsShameIllStrangerThirtyPosterityUnbornMatrimonyBest Times Author:Walter Raleigh
“The courage of a great many men, and the virtue of a great many women, are the effect of vanity, shame, and especially a suitabletemperament.” MenCourageVirtueEffectsBraveryShameVanityGreat MenChastity Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“The ways of God are entirely different from our ways. To us it seems necessary to employ powerful means in order to produce great effects. This is not God's method; quite the contrary. He likes to choose the weakest instruments that He may confound the strong: "God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong - Infirma mundi elegit ut confundat fortia".” WorldWayMayMeanDifferentSeemsOrderStrongPowerfulEffectsProduceWeakShameMethodInstrumentsContraryLikesRosary Author:Columba Marmion
“I suppose that a lifetime spent hiding one's erotic truth could have a cumulative renunciatory effect. Sexual shame is in itself a kind of death.” KindEffectsShameLifetimeHidingEroticCumulative Book:Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic Source: Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
“You will be interested to hear, Hilary, that it [the drug] had a most remarkable effect — even on Selena after a very modest quantity. She cast off all conventional restraints and devoted herself without shame to the pleasure of the moment." I asked for particulars of this uncharacteristic conduct. "She took from her handbag a paperback edition of Pride and Prejudice and sat on the sofa reading it, declining all offers of conversation.” MomentsReadingPleasureEffectsPrideDrugOffersConversationPrejudiceShameCastsSatRemarkableQuantityDevotedConventionalModestRestraintSofasHandbags Author:Sarah Caudwell
“The thing that moves us to pride or shame is not the mere mechanical reflection of ourselves but the imagined effect of this reflection upon another's mind.” MindMovingEffectsPrideReflectionShameMere Book:On Self and Social Organization Source: On Self and Social Organization
“Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one.” GivingPainEffectsShamePunishmentHumiliatingPhysical PainCorporal Punishment Book:The Century of the Child Source: The Century of the Child