Reproach is shame, blame, disgrace, disapproval and a disrespectful attitude toward yourself. When you're under reproach, your behavior shows it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
When you blame others, you give up your power to change.
Repentance means you change your mind so deeply that it changes you.
Behold, I am become a reproach to thy holy name, by serving any ambition and the sins of others; which though I did by the persuasion of other men, yet my own conscience did cheek and upbraid me in it.
Repentance is accepted remorse.
Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
Vengeance is the act of turning anger in on yourself. On the surface it may be directed at someone else, but it is a surefire recipe for arresting emotional recovery.
The proud do not change to improve, but defend their position by rationalizing. Repentance means change, and it takes a humble person to change.
There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.