Attribute to God every good that you have received. If you take credit for something that does not belong to you, you will be guilty of theft.

— Anthony of Padua

Astonishing Not Guilty quotations

If our church is not marked by caring for the poor, the oppressed, the hungry, we are guilty of heresy.

Not guilty quote If I were to remain silent, I'd be guilty of complicity.
If I were to remain silent, I'd be guilty of complicity.

Those who love you are not fooled by mistakes you have made or dark images you hold about yourself. They remember your beauty when you feel ugly; your wholeness when you are broken; your innocence when you feel guilty; and your purpose when you are confused.

Not guilty quote It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.

We are all guilty of the good we did not do

If, while I hear the wild shriek of the slave mother robbed of her little ones, I do not open my mouth, am I not guilty?

All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand! Oh, oh, oh!

I'm not a big splurger of money, but my guilty pleasures do lie within BMWs. I get roped in.

The marvel of marvels is not that God, in His infinite love, has not elected all this guilty race to be saved, but that He has elected any.

A minister of state is excusable for the harm he does when the helm of government has forced his hand in a storm; but in the calm he is guilty of all the good he does not do.

If I agree to dispose of any part of our land to the white people I would feel guilty of taking food away from our children's mouths, and I do not wish to be that mean.

Teach the ignorant as much as you can;

society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces. If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.

Grace is not looking for good men whom it may approve, for it is not grace but mere justice to approve goodness. [Rather] it is looking for condemned, guilty, speechless and helpless men whom it may save, sanctify and glorify.

The hardest thing about depression is that it is addictive.

It begins to feel uncomfortable not to be depressed. You feel guilty for feeling happy.

I am not guilty, I am innocent.

The most beautiful words in the English language are 'not guilty'.

On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.

The defendant wants to hide the truth because he's generally guilty.

The defense attorney's job is to make sure the jury does not arrive at that truth.

You can live your life angry, bitter, mad at somebody or even guilty, not letting go of your own mistakes, but you won't receive the good things God has in store.

There is a rawness and a wonder to life.

Pursue it. Hunt for it. Sell out to get it. Don't listen to the whines of those who have settled for a second-rate life and want you to do the same so they won't feel guilty. Your goal is not to live long; it's to live.

You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty.

He who is present at a wrongdoing and does not lift a hand to prevent it, is as guilty as the wrongdoers.

Everyone says corruption is everywhere, but for me it seems strange to say that and then not try to put the people guilty of that corruption away.

Whoever commits a fraud is guilty not only of the particular injury to him who he deceives, but of the diminution of that confidence which constitutes not only the ease but the existence of society.

The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.

My job as a prosecutor is to do justice.

And justice is served when a guilty man is convicted and an innocent man is not.

Because God knows, searches and clearly understands the minds, hearts, thoughts, and nature of all, his supreme kindness and clemency do not permit anyone at all who is not guilty of deliberate sin to suffer eternal punishments.

We [should not] make the mistake of thinking that marriage will provide the ultimate satisfaction for which we all hunger. To assume so would be to be guilty of blasphemy. Only God satisfies the hungry heart. Marriage is but one of the channels He uses to enable us to taste how deeply satisfying His thirst-quenching grace can be.

When one person makes an accusation, check to be sure he himself is not the guilty one. Sometimes it is those whose case is weak who make the most clamour.

Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.

...those who are guilty of such sweeping criticisms [of the rich] do not know how many people would be made poor, and how much sufering would result, if wealthy people were to part all at once with any large proportion of their wealth in a way to disorganize and cripple great business enterprises.

I'm absolutely, 100 percent, not guilty.

We will that all men know we blame not all the lords, nor all those that are about the king's person, nor all gentlemen nor yeomen, nor all men of law, nor all bishops, nor all priests, but all such as may be found guilty by just and true inquiry and by the law.

The only faults considered grave are the following: not respecting the rights of one's neighbor, letting oneself be paralyzed by fear, feeling guilty, thinking one does not deserve the good and bad which occurs in life, and being a coward.

You can sit there forever, lamenting about how bad you've been, feeling guilty until you die, and not one tiny slice of that guilt will do anything to change a single thing in the past. Forgive yourself, then MOVE ON!

Why should I resign ... First of all, I am not guilty of any of these charges. Second, we have a constitution to follow.