“Conviction says, 'My behavior was wrong.' Satan, on the other hand, floods our hearts with shame. Shame says, 'There is something wrong with me.”
“Unlike guilt, which is the feeling of doing something wrong shame is the feeling of being something wrong.”
“This was not guilt: guilt is what you feel when you have done something wrong. What I felt was shame: I was what was wrong.”
“He says this is war. There is no shame in war. Tell him he's wrong. War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace.”
“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.”
“My hands are of your color, but I shame to wear a heart so white.”