" When I speak about the voice of the Accuser, I'm talking about the crippling, deceptive messages that play on repeat within us. They fixate not on what we might have done but on how awful we are. That's something profoundly different from a rightly guilty conscience. It's shame. If our sense of ego needs to die for us to truly live, even more so must our sense of shame. So does our unwitting allegiance to the voice of the Accuser-a voice that tells us we're unworthy and that we can never be loved. "

― Rachel Held Evans , Wholehearted Faith