Quotes About Offenses

I'm ashamed I didn't change my behavior until I was forced to do so by circumstance and by others. The reality is, I was stopped from further bad actions by those who spoke up about my offenses, at substantial risk to their personal and professional reputations... and subsequently, by Christine and others on the 500 team.

I thought we were to discuss a referral which we believe contains substantial and credible information of potential impeachable offenses by the President of the United States.

There are offences given and offences not given but taken.

After all, a society with such an enlightened tolerance of corruption and savagery needed to bear down hard on minor offenses to convince itself that it still had standards.

As we experience life throughout the years, the truth is that our heart gets broken—not like a broken bone per se, but wounds and offenses block aspects of our heart, cutting us off from feeling certain emotions or connecting with God.

There are offences given and offences not given but taken.

I would never commit acts of domestic or family violence, stalking or sex offenses against Vince Russo or his household members or any other kind of member that he might have hanging around. Never would I do such a thing. I swear to that.

Jesus said, "It is impossible that no offenses should come" (Luke 17:1). It is not a question of opportunity to be offended, but what your response will be. It is an unfortunate fact that, not some, but many are offended and held captive.

Some offenses will be more challenging than those for which we've been trained. This extra strain may cause

The Constitution names only three federal offenses: treason, piracy, and counterfeiting. Today there are over forty-five hundred federal crimes, and the number continues to grow as Congress gets tougher on crime and federal prosecutors become more creative in finding ways to apply all their new laws.

Several of the [crowd's] outfits, Ignatius noticed, were new enough and expensive enough to be properly considered offenses against taste and decency. Possession of anything new or expensive only reflected a person's lack of theology and geometry; it could even cast doubts upon one's soul.

How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son's offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!

I mean that repeated offences, even when they secure forgiveness, drive out love. And from that I came to say that one may compel obedience but never love.

I thank God I am not a woman, to be touched with so many giddy offences as He hath generally taxed their whole sex withal.

No. In a sacramental confession, the penitent names his offenses because it is a way of taking responsibility for them before God and before man. He says, 'I am a sinner. This is what I have done. I blame no one but myself. I ask to be pardoned and healed. I need a Savior.'

The longer nature delays in avenging the offenses committed against her, the crueler her vengeance.

Offences are easily pardoned where there is love at the bottom.

If the rulerís temper flares against you, do not abandon your post, for calmness lays great offenses to rest.