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“When we evaluate the rightness or wrongness of actions or behavior, we need to ask ourselves if that behavior will edify—build up—ourselves or someone else, or if it will tear down. The question is not what we can get away with, but what is healthy and edifying. When it is all said and done, are we edified spiritually? Have we been built up and strengthened in our relationship with the Lord or with our spouse, or have we been weakened? Do we come away encouraged or discouraged, confident or filled with a sense of guilt or shame? Is our conscience clean?”

Source: The Purpose and Power of Love & Marriage

“One must live with all, e'en if life be hell: Crime makes shame, not monetary stricture.”

Ifs Life Is Hell Crime Shame Monetary

Author:Multatuli

“People say, oh it's a shame, you're not nostalgic about the '60s. Well actually, it's quite good, when you think of it. Wouldn't it be sad if I was sitting here wishing it back?”

People Ifs Thinking Wells Wish Sitting Shame Nostalgic

Author:Robert Wyatt

“Shame derives its power from being unspeakable...If we speak shame, it begins to wither. Just the way exposure to light was deadly for the gremlins, language and story bring light to shame and destroy it.”

Ifs Way Stories Light Speak Language Empathy Shame Exposure Unspeakable Gremlins

Author:Brené Brown

“Dogs act exactly the way we would act if we had no shame.”

Ifs Way Funny Dog Shame My Dog

Book:Get Your Tongue Out of My Mouth, I'm Kissing You Good-bye

Source: Get Your Tongue Out of My Mouth, I'm Kissing You Good-bye

“What is still more to our shame as civilized Christians, we debauch their morals already too prone to vice, and we introduce among them wants and perhaps disease which they never before knew and which serve only to disturb that happy tranquility which they and their forefathers enjoyed. If anyone denies the truth of this assertion, let him tell me what the natives of the whole extent of America have gained by the commerce they have had with Europeans.”

Ifs Want Stills Whole Christian America Moral History Disease Shame Vices Deny Enjoyed Civilized Introducing Commerce Tranquility Assertion Forefathers E Commerce

Author:James Cook

“It’s a shame, sort of a waste, that most people are influenced by what the newspaper supplements tell them is the book they are meant to be seen reading this year. It seems like those people aren’t really interested in books. If you’re really into books, you havoc all over the place picking up disparate stuff which you devour hungrily, and the ‘selection’ process is more like a sixth sense hunger, a billion miles away from fashion.”

People Ifs Years Book Seems Reading Stuff Process Fashion Waste Shame Hunger Billions Miles Newspapers Meant To Be Selection Supplements Miles Away Havoc Sixth Sense

Author:Steve Aylett

“The perfect tools aren't going to help us if we can't face each other and give and receive fearlessly, but more important, to ask without shame.”

Ifs Giving Important Helping Faces Asks Perfect Tools Shame Giving And Receiving

Author:Amanda Palmer

“If you are insulted, if you are accused, if they gossip about you, don't say anything bad. Don't be the one who sees the shame, be the one who corrects it.”

Ifs Shame Gossip Say Anything Accused Insulted

Author:Shams Tabrizi

“When secularization has had its full sway, it will leave a generation devoid of shame. And if you show me a generation that lacks shame, I will show you a generation that is monstrous in its appetite... never satisfied.”

Ifs Shows Generations Shame Satisfied Appetite Show Me Secularism Monstrous Modernisation

Author:Ravi Zacharias

“The enemy works overtime to keep us in shame. He knows if he can keep us in shame, he can minimize our intimacy with God.”

Ifs Knows Enemy Shame Intimacy Intimacy With God Minimizing

Author:Mike Bickle

“The words we use for the Creator are a reflect of ourselves. If we think of God as fear and shame, we are scared and have something to be ashamed of ... But if we see love, compassion and kindness, it is because we possess these qualities.”

Ifs Thinking Use Quality Compassion Kindness Shame Scared Creator Ashamed Kindness And Compassion

Author:Shams Tabrizi

“If you did wed my sister for her wealth, Then for her wealth's sake use her with more kindness; Or, if you like elsewhere, do it by stealth; Muffle your false love with some show of blindness; Let not my sister read it in your eye; Be not thy tongue thy own shame's orator; Look sweet, speak fair, become disloyalty; Apparel vice like virtue's harbinger; Bear a fair presence, though your heart be tainted; Teach sin the carriage of a holy saint; Be secret-false.”

Source: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: Dramatic and Poetic

“People ask if I miss it, but they don't understand that American culture is so ubiquitous that there's nothing to miss. I don't see myself moving back. It's not that I hate the United States. I just always thought it would be a shame not to live in a foreign country.”

People Ifs Country States Would Be Moving Hate Culture Asks United United States Missing I Hate Shame American Culture Foreign Countries Moving Back

Author:David Sedaris

“If you were meant to cure cancer or crack cold fusion and you don't do it, you not only hurt yourself, even destroy yourself. You hurt your children, you hurt me, you hurt the planet. You shame the angels who watch over you and you spite God Almighty, who created you and only you with your unique gifts, for the sole purpose of nudging the human race one millimeter further along its path back to God.”

“If a child lives with criticism, he learns to condemn. If he lives with hostility, he learn s to fight. If a child lives with shame, he learn to fell ashamed.”

Ifs Children Fighting Self Esteem Criticism Shame Esteem Ashamed Hostility

Author:Dorothy Nolte

“There comes into the life of every man a task for which he and he alone is uniquely suited. What a shame if that moment finds him either unwilling or unprepared for that which would become his finest hour.”

Ifs Men Moments Hours Tasks Shame Every Man That Moment Finest Unwilling Unprepared Finest Hour

Author:Winston Churchill

“He knew it was possible for shame to be nursed and doctored like an illness, if you wanted to keep it separate from the rest of your life, but that didn't mean there'd be any way to keep from knowing it was there.”

Ifs Way Mean Wanted Knowing Shame Illness Nurse Rest Of Your Life

Author:Richard Yates

“If you have not the experience, ask. There is no shame in asking, but do not pretend you know when you don't.”

Ifs Knows Asks Experience Asking Shame

Author:Mother Teresa

“If a person had delivered up your body to some passer-by, you would certainly be angry. And do you feel no shame in delivering up your own mind to any reviler, to be disconcerted and confounded?”

Ifs Feels Mind Persons Body Shame Angry Your Body Advertising Delivering

Book:The Enchiridion

Source: The Enchiridion

“Scarlett: You should die of shame to leave me here alone and helpless. Rhett: You helpless? (laughs) Heaven help the Yankees if they capture you.”

Ifs Should Helping Dies Heaven Laughing Shame Capture Helpless Yankees Leaving Me

Author:Vivien Leigh

“I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right - shame on you.”

Ifs Inspirational Simple Relationship Treats Shame My Attitude Shame On You Treat Me Right

Author:Louis Armstrong

“If menopause is the silent passage, 'male menopause' is the unspeakable passage. It is fraught with secrecy, shame, and denial. It is much more fundamental than the ending of the fertile period of a woman's life, because it strikes at the core of what it is to be a man.”

Ifs Men Periods Shame Fundamentals Silent Males Strikes Core Denial Passages Secrecy Be A Man Fertile Unspeakable Menopause

Author:Gail Sheehy

“If I had a horse buck with me now, I’m a little disappointed. It’s not the end of the world, but I’m a little disappointed if I couldn’t keep the horse out of trouble, whereas it used to be a source of pride, and now it’s sort of source of shame if I let the horse get lost.”

Ifs World Littles Ends Used Lost Trouble Source Pride Horse Shame Used To Be Disappointed End Of The World Bucks

Author:Buck Brannaman

“If you are burdened with depressing feelings of guilt or disappointment, of failure or shame, there is a cure.”

Ifs Feelings Shame Guilt Disappointment Cures Depressing

Author:Boyd K. Packer

“If you, who are organised by Divine Providence for spiritual communion, refuse, and bury your talent in the earth, even though you should want natural bread, sorrow and desperation pursue you through life, and after death shame and confusion of face to eternity.”

Source: Prefatory note There is no natural religion. All religions are one. The marriage of heaven and hell Visions of the daughters of Albion. A song of liberty. America. Europe. The book of Urizen. The book of Los. Ahania. The song of Los. The four Zoas. Milton. Jerusalem. On Homer's poetry; On Virgil. Laocoön. The ghost of Abel

“If we want to live and love with our whole hearts, and if we want to engage with the world from a place of worthiness, we have to talk about the things that get in the way- especially shame, fear and vulnerability”

Ifs World Way Want Heart Whole And Love Shame Vulnerability Worthiness Live And Love

Book:The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are

Source: The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are

“Words will never fully capture what is alive in our hearts.It would be a shame, though, if we denied our bears their dancing.”

Ifs Heart Would Be Alive Bears Shame Dancing Capture Denied

Author:Dinty W. Moore

“Don't be afraid to do weird stuff, so long as you do it cheaply and cover everyone's bets. Be bold. Be stupid, if you have to: so long as you don't hurt anybody, what's it matter how dopey your dream is? If I hadn't made TUSK? If I'd let it die as a podcast? I wouldn't have three other movies I'm now making within the span of a year. Some folks will try to shame you for trying something outside the norm; the only shame is in not trying to accomplish your dreams.”

Ifs Trying Years Long Made Matter Dream Dies Three Stuff Hurt Stupid Shame Folks Accomplish Your Dreams Norm Weird Stuff Trying Something

Author:Kevin Smith

“Richard A. Posner is an extraordinary person. If he did not exist, it would be hard to believe that he could. (...) He writes with a flair that puts most journalists to shame and a depth of knowledge that puts most professors to shame.”

Ifs Writing Believe Persons Hard Would Be Shame Extraordinary Depth Journalist Professors Hard To Believe Flair Extraordinary Person

Author:Alan Ryan

“I've made a terrible confession to you, he concluded gloomily. Do appreciate it, gentlemen. And it's not enough, not enough to appreciate it, you must not just appreciate it, it should also be precious to you, and if not, if this, too, goes past your souls, then it means you really do not respect me, gentlemen. I tell you that, and I will die of shame at having confessed to such men as you.”

Ifs Men Should Mean Made Soul Enough Past Dies Terrible Appreciate Shame Your Soul Gentleman Confession Respect Me

Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky

“What a shame that Christianity had come here!If the white man had not intruded where he was not wanted, where he did not belong, even now protected by the mountains and the river,the village would have remained a last stronghold of a culture which was almost gone.Mark tried to say that no village,no culture can remain static. I have often thought that if this lively and magnificent land belongs to anyone,it's to the birds and the fish.They were here long before the first Indian and when the last man is gone from the Earth,it will be theirs again.”

Source: I Heard the Owl Call My Name

“Don't settle down and sit in one place. Move around, be nomadic, make each day a new horizon. You are still going to live a long timeand it would be a shame if you did not take the opportunity to revolutionize your life and move into an entirely new realm of experience.My point is that you do not need me or anyone elseThe only person you are fighting is yourself and your stubbornness”

Ifs Needs Persons Long Stills Would Be Moving Fighting Opportunity Shame Down And Settling Realms Each Day Horizon Stubbornness Settling Down Nomadic New Horizons

Author:Jon Krakauer

“Customs, morals — is there a difference? Woman, do you realize what you are doing? Here, by the grace of God and an inside straight, we have a personality untouched by the psychotic taboos of our tribe — and you want to turn him into a carbon copy of every fourth-rate conformist in this frightened land! Why don't you go whole hog? Get him a brief case and make him carry it wherever he goes — make him feel shame if he doesn't have it.”

Ifs Want Feels Whole Turns Realizing Differences Moral Cases Grace Land Personality Shame Rate Copies Customs Frightened Fourth Carbon Tribes Grace Of God Taboo Psychotic Conformist Hog

Author:Jubal

“If you are not willing to take the shame on yourself, you then let it remain on Jesus Christ. You must bear the reproach of your sinful state of indifference, or the cause of our Master must bear it.”

Ifs States Jesus Causes Christ Willing Masters Bears Jesus Christ Shame Indifference Reproach

Author:Mordecai

“Authentic love does not devalue another human being. Authentic love does not silence, shame or abuse. If you are in a relationship with someone who does not honor and respect you, I want you to know that you are worthy of love. Please reach out for help. Your voice will save you. Let it extend into the night, let it part the darkness. Let it set you free to know who you truly are - valuable, beautiful, loved.”

“If you have an enemy, do not requite him evil with good, for that would put him to shame. Rather prove that he did you some good.”

Ifs Evil Enemy Prove Shame

Book:The Portable Nietzsche

Source: The Portable Nietzsche

“Verily, I do not like them, the merciful who feel blessed in their pity: they are lacking too much in shame. If I must pity, at least I do not want it known; and if I do pity, it is preferably from a distance.”

Ifs Want Feels Known Too Much Shame Blessed Distance Pity Lacking Merciful

Book:The Portable Nietzsche

Source: The Portable Nietzsche

“No sane person, I hope, would accuse me of saying that every Distributist must drink beer; especially if he could brew his own cider or found claret better for his health. But I do most emphatically scorn and scout the vulgar refinement that regards beer as something unseemly and humiliating. And I would shout the name of beer a hundred times a day, to shock all the snobs who have so shameful a sense of shame.”

Ifs Persons Found Names Drink Hundred Regard Shame Beer Shock Sane Vulgar Scorn Shameful Refinement Humiliating Snob Cider Claret

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“If you've never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.”

Ifs Life Is Shame Distance Daydreaming

Author:Adam Duritz

“If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.”

Ifs Respect Shame Lions Beard Pluck

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Martial (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Martial (Illustrated)

“Give, but, if possible, spare the poor man the shame of begging.”

Ifs Men Giving Poor Shame Spares Begging Poor Man

Author:Denis Diderot

“Luckless is the country in which the symbols of procreation are the objects of shame, while the agents of destruction are honored! And yet you call that member your pudendum, or shameful part, as if there were anything more glorious than creating life, or anything more atrocious than taking it away.”

Ifs Country Objects Birth Members Creating Destruction Shame Symbols Agents Glorious Honored Shameful Procreation Creating Life

Author:Cyrano de Bergerac

“It's a shame about California, and particularly about L.A., where they've demolished so many landmarks. It's a bit of a disease there, where if anything is over 30 years old, they sort of knock it down and replace it. It's a strange town, it's this sprawling suburb, and then there's a city, the old town.”

Ifs Years Bits Cities Strange Disease Towns Shame Down And California Suburbs Landmarks

Author:Gary Oldman

“At this stage in my career, I don't have to take any big risks. You want to take a calculated risk, not one that leads to people saying 'yes, but there was that one time when she made that big mistake.' It's always a shame when that happens, especially if you've gotten by for decades without anything hugely tragic.”

People Ifs Want Made Bigs Happens Mistake Careers Risk Stage Shame Decades Tragic One Time Saying Yes Big Mistake Calculated Risk

Author:Renee Fleming

“Suits are looked at more now as a business thing which is kind of a shame. If you're not wearing it just for work, you should try and trick it up a bit.”

Ifs Should Trying Kind Bits Business Shame Tricks Suits

Author:Daniel Craig

“If there's friends around, I'll cook. Or if I have a girlfriend. But on my own I kind of fell out of the habit of it, and it's a shame really because I know it's good for me. It's something quite therapeutic.”

Ifs Knows Kind My Own Habit Shame Cooks Girlfriend Therapeutic

Author:Michael Fassbender

“Anything that's on television as often as someone on 'The X Factor' is what's successful. That doesn't mean that I condone that or think that it's right. To be honest, I'd be the first to say I think it's a shame. But if that's the way it is then that's the way it is.”

Ifs Thinking Way Firsts Mean Successful Honest Television Shame Factors Being Honest

Author:Paloma Faith

“Besides, it is a shame to let yourself grow old through neglect before seeing how you can develop the maximum beauty and strength of body; and you can have this experience if your are negligent, because these things don't normally happen by themselves.”

Ifs Mind Philosophy Body Happens Grows Psychology Seeing Shame Medicine Senses Neglect Maximum Soma

Author:Socrates