We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.
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We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
Motives reveal why we do what we do, which is actually more important to God than what we're doing.
Even if we encounter some shameful events in the past, we shouldn't avoid or hide them.
What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it.
If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.
We all feel the urge to condemn ourselves out of guilt, to blame others for our misfortunes and to fantasize about total disaster.
We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain.
I really believe that 'Saw' makes us stop and think and question our motives and what we're doing here on Earth.
I am not ashamed of anything - not my past, not my affairs, not my body, and most definitely not my desire.
One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame we have killed off so much real shame as well.
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