Quotes About Offense

Forgive them, you might say, for they know not what they do. But there comes a moment in history when ignorance is no longer a forgivable offense, a moment when only wisdom has the power to absolve.

I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.

This was not even a particularly big offense in the pantheon of book club crimes, where the worst sin one could commit was not to read the book in question--or, even worse, to lie about having read the book when, in fact, you'd simply seen the movie, a lie usually uncovered when you used the actor's name by accident. ("I love the part where Daniel Day-Lewis ...")

Men are apt to offend ('tis true) where they find most goodness to forgive.

attack n. assuming an offensive posture The military refers to attack as "assuming an offensive posture.

King- Hamilton, Judge Alan ( b 1900 )'...I think he erred on the side of severity when he gave Janie Jones, the notorious madame, seven years after the jury had acquitted her'. 'Well, these things are relative of course. It all depends on what you've been acquitted of. Miss Jones was innocent of a very serious offence.

We may give more offense by our silence than even by impertinence.

An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence a vain man, in order that it may.

The simplicity of this case offends me. It's so neat, it's like a preconception. One thing you can be sure about any preconception. It's wrong. If there's a God and he tried to preconceive the world, he got it wrong.

Feeling offended is invigorating. Feeling offended is a reassuring sensation. It's easier than asking ourselves if the redeeming love of God is evident in the way we communicate with people.

The things other people said or did would always give room to take offense, if you were of a mind to take offense. Therefore the fault wasn't in the other people.

My Lord, I find thy face apelike and thy form misshapen. Thy beard, moreover, is an offense against decency, resembling more closely the scabrous fir which doth decorate the hinder portion of a mongrel dog than a proper adornement for a human face. Is it possible that thy mother, seized by some wild lechery, did dally at some time past with a randy goat? -Mandorallen

Talvolta è più offensivo essere apprezzati per i motivi sbagliati che essere disprezzati per quelli giusti.

If you are offended at anything and have your emotions stressed as a result, it is you who have chosen to be offended. It's a thought form, a state of mind, which you are in control of.

Although there is validity, I believe, in leaving a church where the leadership consistently presents false doctrine, I also see people who are offended by one remark from the pulpit or one perceived hurt flit to the next church to look for fault there. It's like the cartoon I saw of a skeleton dressed in women's clothes and sitting on a park bench; the caption read, 'Waiting for the perfect man.' There is no perfect church either.

Jesus spoke of false christs and false prophets, of wars and rumors of wars, of famines, pestilences, and earthquakes "in many parts of the world" (Matt. 24:7 NLT). "All these," He said, "are the beginning of sorrows" (Matt. 24:8 KJV). He also spoke of widespread and pervasive persecution of the saints. He then said something surprising, "And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another" (Matt. 24:10 KJV).

Sometimes God offends our minds in order to reveal our hearts.

God has never, in the history of mankind, allowed his name to go long offended.

Tragically, we live in a day when offense to God doesn't matter nearly as much as offense to others.

In prosperity, give thanks to God with humility and fear lest by pride you abuse God's benefits and so offend him.

The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness.

When God's justice falls, we are offended because we think God owes perpetual mercy. We must not take His grace for granted. We must never lose our capacity to be amazed by grace

I totally believe that God has blessed me with the unique ability to know offense, to call offense.

There is no gospel without the offence. This is God's wisdom. It never seems sensible to us in our flesh.