Offended Quotes - Page 3

• If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumber'd here While these visions did appear.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Halloween, Thinking

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 5, sc. 2, l. 54

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• On those days when we're not ready to stop being offended, not ready to forgive, still determined to dish out the silent treatment, what we're actually saying is, "Thanks, but I don't want to become more like the Savior today. Maybe tomorrow, but not today." Perhaps those are the times when we need to pray the hardest, the times it becomes clear that a change in behavior is not enough--that we must have a change in nature.

  Sheri L. Dew

  Maybe Tomorrow, Forgiving, Needs

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• I'd like to live in a world where people embrace objective truths rather than be offended by them.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  People, Objective Truth, World

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• He told people that their sins were forgiven, and never waited to consult all the other people whom their sins had undoubtedly injured. He unhesitatingly behaved as if He was the party chiefly concerned, the person chiefly offended in all offenses. This makes sense only if He really was God whose laws are broken and whose love is wounded in every sin.

  C. S. Lewis

  Party, Love Is, Law

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.55, HarperCollins UK

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• I come from a long ago era where men could be men and stereotypical humor didn't offend anybody.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Men, Long Ago, Eras

  "Rush Limbaugh denies claims he told caller not to watch Fox News". "The Five", Fox News Show, www.foxnews.com. July 10, 2013.

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• Forgiveness involves pardon. Basically, that is like erasing their offenses toward us from a marking board. We immediately wash their offenses away like a wave washing away a message in the sand. Second, forgiveness involves caring for the offending person because most people who offend us have something in their own heart that needs healing. When we forgive others, they are released from our anger and we are healed by God.

  Gary Smalley

  Forgiveness, God, Christian

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• When Jesus came to earth, demons recognized him, the sick flocked to him, and sinners doused his feet and head with perfume. Meanwhile he offended pious Jews with their strict preconceptions of what God should be like. Their rejection makes me wonder, could religious types be doing just the reverse now? Could we be perpetuating an image of Jesus that fits our pious expectations but does not match the person portrayed so vividly in the Gospels?

  Philip Yancey

  Religious, Jesus, Feet

  Philip Yancey (2010). “The Jesus I Never Knew Study Guide”, p.82, Harper Collins

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• An offended heart is the breeding ground of deception.

  John Bevere

  Heart, Deception, Breeders

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• The nation of Dubai banned the movie Charlie's Angles because it's "offensive to the religion of Islam." Apparently, the religion of Islam is offended by anything without a plot.

  Jon Stewart

  Movie, Dubai, Religion Of Islam

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• Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.

  Robertson Davies

  People, Genius

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• Consider God's charity. Where else have we ever seen someone who has been offended voluntarily paying out his life for those who have offended him?

  St. Catherine of Siena

  Charity, Has Beens

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• Our enmity toward God takes on many labels, such as rebellion, hard-heartedness, stiff-neckedness, unrepentant, puffed up, easily offended, and sign seekers. The proud wish God would agree with them. They aren't interested in changing their opinions to agree with God's.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Offended You, Wish, Proud

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• We have fun acting like this, acting like we are incredibly offended. Really, we are just bored to tears with everything.

  Joe Meno

  Fun, Bored, Tears

  Joe Meno (2008). “Demons in the Spring”, p.130, Akashic Books

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• Don't take anything personally. Even when a situation seems so personal, even if others insult you directly, it has nothing to do with you. Their point of view and opinion come from all the programming they received growing up. When you take things personally, you feel offended and your reaction is to defend your beliefs and create conflict. You make something big out of something so little because you have the need to be right and make everybody else wrong.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Life, Growing Up, Insults You

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• The person who is living by grace sees this vast contrast between his own sins against God and the offenses of others against him. He forgives others because he himself has been so graciously forgiven. He realizes that, by receiving God’s forgiveness through Christ, he has forfeited the right to be offended when others hurt him.

  Jerry Bridges

  Hurt, Grace, Forgiving

  Jerry Bridges (2014). “Transforming Grace: Living Confidently in God’s Unfailing Love”, p.27, Tyndale House

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• If anyone feels offended by my words, I would respond that I speak them with affection and with the best of intentions, quite apart from any personal interest or political ideology. My words are not those of a foe or an opponent. I am interested only in helping those who are in thrall to an individualistic, indifferent and self-centred mentality to be freed from those unworthy chains and to attain a way of living and thinking which is more humane, noble and fruitful, and which will bring dignity to their presence on this earth.

  Pope Francis

  Thinking, Self, Political

  Pope Francis (2014). “The Joy of the Gospel”, p.61, BookBaby

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• Don't be offended by your lack of purity. Purity is a seed that will grow and develop.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Purity, Grows

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• Just because we feel offended doesn't mean we must be offended. Feelings are indicators not dictators.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Mean, Feelings, Dictator

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• Being offended by things is the world's big hobby at the moment. It's almost taken over from wearing goatee beards.

  Douglas Adams

  Taken, Hobbies, World

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• I was not offended, my love. An insult is like a drink; it affects one only if accepted. And pride is too heavy baggage for my journey.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Pride, Journey, Baggage

  Robert A. Heinlein (2007). “Glory Road”, p.136, Macmillan

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• Don't get offended, there's no need for insecurity,
  Age is but a number, it's all about maturity.

  Chi-Ali

  Rap, Maturity, Numbers

  Song: Age Ain't Nothing But A No

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• We are living in a culture that if you criticize immorality you could be branded as a "bigot". I am going to lose a lot of support just by saying this. I am not a politician and I am not running a popularity contest. My job is to defend our world from Islam. You asked why the westerners convert to Islam and I must tell the truth as I see it. If that offends anyone, let him be offended.

  Ali Sina

  Running, Jobs, Our World

  Source: myislam.dk

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• if you have to say “no offense” to someone, you have already offended them.

  Meg Cabot

  Offense, Ifs

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• No one likes having offended another person; hence everyone feels so much better if the other person doesn't show he's been offended. Nobody likes being confronted by a wounded spaniel. Remember that. It is much easier patiently - and tolerantly - to avoid the person you have injured than to approach him as a friend. You need courage for that.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Friendship, Needs, Likes

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• I used to hold back because people would get offended, but now I'm like, 'You're going to hear me, regardless. Whether you accept what I have to say or not is on you.'

  Trick Daddy

  People, Like You, Accepting

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