Quotes About Offense

Why don't the names of Buddha, Mohammed, Confucius offend people? The reason is that these others didn't claim to be God, but Jesus did.

God is more ready to forgive me than I am ready to offend.

Of all the doctrines of the Bible none is so offensive to human nature as the doctrine of God's sovereignty.

Crime is not punished as an offense against God, but as prejudicial to society.

Let what offends God offend me, and what God pardons, I pardon.

Irrevence is another person's disrespect to your god; there isn't any word that tells what your disrespect to his god is.

Always turn to God in the midst of your struggle and view people who offended you as an instruments of divine sovereignty.

If you are a good team, your offense is born on the defensive end.

You really can't be a good artist if you can't say what you really feel. And people may be offended, but, you know, that's how you feel, and that is your right, and that is your gift as well.

An impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history.

No one understands that the First Amendment is only important if you are going to offend somebody. If you're not going to offend somebody, you don't need protection of the First Amendment.

Being offended is a natural consequence of leaving the house.

Hope is a punishable offense. The verdict is always death; one more death of the heart.

Humor is a great defense, and an offense too. Usually the recipient isn't too happy about it, but the people around are laughing.

He who takes offense when no offense is intended is a fool, and he who takes offense when offense is intended is a greater fool.

Stay focused instead of getting offended or off track by others.

No one beneath you can offend you. No one your equal would.

No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.

At the University of Wisconsin at Parkside, a white was suspended for addressing a black as "Shaka Zulu," the name of an African tribal ruler,929 but when three white students complained of being called "rednecks," they were told that the word was not on the forbidden list and that no offense could be taken.930

Whites impose these rules on themselves because they know blacks, in particular, are so quick to take offense.

I thanked her, and while normally I wouldn't be caught dead wearing sweaters so hideous they'd offend Bill Gates's fashion sense, beggars can't be choosers and all that.

How dare you serve me cold soup…." That's complaining. There is a "me" here that loves to feel personally offended by the cold soup and is going to make the most of it, a "me" that enjoys making someone wrong. The complaining we are talking about is in the service of the ego, not of change. Sometimes it becomes obvious that the ego doesn't really want change so that it can go on complaining.

Therefore, we cannot rightly say, "My God is not a God of judgment and anger; my God is a God of love." Such thinking makes it almost impossible to grow in the fear of the Lord. It suggests that sin only saddens God rather than offends him. Both justice and love are expressions of his holiness, and we must know both to learn the fear of the Lord.

MAURICIO ¿No te ofenderás si te digo una cosa? ISABEL Di. MAURICIO Tienes demasiado corazón. Nunca serás una verdadera artista. ISABEL Gracias. Es lo mejor que me has dicho esta noche.