I T uilt
GUILT, noun gilt.
1. Criminality; that state of a moral agent which results from his actual commission of a crime or offense, knowing it to be a crime, or violation of law. To constitute guilt there must be a moral agent enjoying freedom of will, and capable of distinguishing between right and wrong, and a wilful or intentional violation of a known law, or rule of duty. The guilt of a person exists, as soon as the crime is committed; but to evince it to others, it must be proved by confession, or conviction in due course of law. guilt renders a person a debtor to the law, as it binds him to pay a penalty in money or suffering. guilt therefore implies both criminality and liableness to punishment. guilt may proceed either from a positive act or breach of law, or from voluntary neglect of known duty.
2. Criminality in a political or civil view; exposure to forfeiture or other penalty.
A ship incurs guilt by the violation of a blockade.
3. Crime; offense
SCRIPTURES:
Or otherwise, can ye imagine yourselves brought before the tribunal of God with your souls filled with guilt and remorse, having a remembrance of all your guilt, yea, a perfect remembrance of all your wickedness, yea, a remembrance that ye have set at defiance the commandments of God?
Then will ye longer deny the Christ, or can ye behold the Lamb of God? Do ye suppose that ye shall dwell with him under a consciousness of your guilt? Do ye suppose that ye could be happy to dwell with that holy Being, when your souls are racked with a consciousness of guilt
Therefore if that man repenteth not, and remaineth and dieth an enemy to God, the demands of divine justice do awaken his immortal soul to a lively sense of his own guilt, which doth cause him to shrink from the presence of the Lord, and doth fill his breast with guilt
So shalt thou put away the guilt of innocent blood from among you, when thou shalt do that which is right in the sight of the Lord.
Thine eye shall not pity him, but thou shalt put away the bguilt of innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with thee.
And I, Enos, knew that God could not lie; wherefore, my guilt was swept away.
...for that glorious day when justice shall be administered unto the righteous, even the day of judgment, that ye may not shrink with awful fear; that ye may not remember your awful guilt in perfectness, and be constrained to exclaim: Holy, holy are thy judgments, O Lord God Almighty—but I...
Hence came the saying abroad among the people, that the Son of God hath atoned for original guilt, wherein the sins of the parents cannot be answered upon the heads of the children, for they are whole from the foundation of the world.
Wherefore, we shall have a perfect knowledge of all our guilt, and our uncleanness, and our nakedness; and the righteous shall have a perfect knowledge of their enjoyment, and their righteousness, being clothed with purity, yea, even with the robe of righteousness.
Know ye not that if ye will do these things, that the power of the redemption and the resurrection, which is in Christ, will bring you to stand with shame and awful guilt before the bar of God?
And I also thank my God, yea, my great God, that he hath granted unto us that we might repent of these things, and also that he hath forgiven us of those our many sins and murders which we have committed, and taken away the guilt from our hearts, through the merits of his Son.
And if they be evil they are consigned to an awful view of their ownguilt and abominations, which doth cause them to shrink from the presence of the Lord into a state of misery and endless torment, from whence they can no more return; therefore they have drunk damnation to their own souls.
...reunited again in its perfect form; both limb and joint shall be restored to its proper frame, even as we now are at this time; and we shall be brought to stand before God, knowing even as we know now, and have a bright recollection of all our guilt.
...we do not believe that human law has a right to interfere in prescribing rules of worship to bind the consciences of men, nor dictate forms for public or private devotion; that the civil magistrate should restrain crime, but never control conscience; should punishguilt, but never suppress the...
...Zeezrom, for he beheld that Amulek had caught him in his lying and deceiving to destroy him, and seeing that he began to tremble under a consciousness of his guilt, he opened his mouth and began to speak unto him, and to establish the words of Amulek, and to explain things beyond, or...
...Zeezrom was astonished at the words which had been spoken; and he also knew concerning the blindness of the minds, which he had caused among the people by his lying words; and his soul began to be harrowed up under a consciousness of his own guilt; yea, he began to be encircled about by...
Free from sin or guilt; blameless. A person becomes pure when his thoughts and actions are clean in every way. A person who has committed sin can become pure through faith in Jesus Christ, repentance, and receiving the ordinances of the gospel.
In another sense, to confess is to admit one’s guilt, such as in a confession of sins. It is a duty of all persons to confess all their sins to the Lord and obtain his forgiveness (D&C 58:42–43). When necessary, sins should be confessed to the person or persons sinned against. Serious sins...
...hath sinned and is guilty, Lev. 6:1–6Whosoever shall partake of the sacrament unworthily is guilty of the body and blood of Jesus, 1 Cor. 11:27The guilty take the truth to be hard, 1 Ne. 16:2We shall have a perfect knowledge of all our guilt, 2 Ne. 9:14My guilt
...God, Mosiah 2:15The Nephites were filled with joy, having peace of conscience, Mosiah 4:3Zeezrom was harrowed up under a consciousness of his own guilt, Alma 14:6We are given joy or remorse of conscience according to our desires, Alma 29:5A punishment and a just law bring remorse of...
The condition of having done wrong, or the feelings of regret and sorrow that should accompany sin
QUOTES:
No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
-Alan Watts
Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.
-Erma Bombeck
It is a hard thing to let go of mistakes we've made and sins. God wants us to do that because He knows the guilt and the condemnation will keep us from becoming who He has created us to be.
-Joel Osteen
Hard though it may be to accept, remember that guilt is sometimes a friendly internal voice reminding you that you're messing up.
-Marge Kennedy
Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
-William Cowper
PERSONAL DEFINITION:
I think Guilt means to feel heavy with sins.
When you feel guilt, you need to ask God for foregivness. And if you offended someone., ask for theirs. Its as simple as that.
When you first feel guilt, its like a conversation going on in your head.
Ever seen those cartoons or whatever with a devil on their shoulder and an angel on the other?
Its kind of like that. It happens to all of us.
The devil is like "Don't worry about it. You'll be fine, it wasn't that big of a sin."
And the "Angel is like " C'mon all you have to so is repent!"
And its up to you to choose. If you choose the wrong side, uyou live with guilt for the rest of your life, or you can choose to go forward and move on.
