offense

God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.

Most of us have hoped and prayed for something to happen a certain way, but it didn't. And when this happened, we had a choice to make: to react with offense toward God or to trust Him anyway.

We needed to go back on the offense and offer clear leadership on Iraq.

The problem with today__ world is that everyone believes they have the right to express their opinion AND have others listen to it. The correct statement of individual rights is that everyone has the right to an opinion, but crucially, that opinion can be roundly ignored and even made fun of, particularly if it is demonstrably nonsense!

Rather than being incensed by the nature of the bruise, maybe we should be inspired by the possibilities in the bruise.

In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king's death or upon the identity of his successor.

A knife wound heals, but a tongue wound festers.

Anything designed to be inoffensive isn't worth your time -- life itself is pretty offensive, ending as it does with death.

Living in the box means being convinced that other people and our circumstances are responsible for our feelings and our helplessness to overcome them. What we can't see when we're in the box is that the way the world appears to us is our projection, and that we are making this projection to justify ourselves in self-betrayal. We cannot see that it's not others' actions but our accusations that result in our feeling offended.

It is impossible to be truly artistic without the risk of offending someone somewhere.

Has society really become quite thin-skinned, or is acting __ffended_ a new tactic that is being used to shut down legitimate political debate? Progressives are increasingly claiming to be offended whenever those on the right disagree with their left-wing positions. It doesn't matter what the issue is; the left will divert a legitimate political debate into an accusation that the right disagrees with them because they are full of hate towards them.

The best defense is a good offense.

If you realize that other people put you down because of their own insecurities, unhappiness and jealousy, you understand that there's no need to be offended. Because it's not really about you, but about them.

Anybody can take offense in everything. You will just go crazy if you try to make everything politically correct every single second.

The person who offends, and the person who has been offended and awaiting for a revenge have one thing in common: the real uncertainties of tomorrow is truly uncertain to both of them.

A question I have often asked is, __hat would an inoffensive political cartoon look like?_ What would a respectful cartoon look like? The form requires disrespect and so if we are going to have in the world things like cartoons and satire, we just have to accept it as part of the price of fre

If someone corrects you, and you feel offended, then you have an ego problem.

Honey, no offense, but sometimes I think I could shoot you and watch you kick.