Offense Quotes

People who wish to be offended will always find some occasion for taking offense.

The best defense is a good offense.

Who you are and who you love should never be a fireable offense

It is just as much an offense to take offense as it is to give offense.

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

Love the offender, yet detest the offense.

It is right for him who asks forgiveness for his offenses to grant it to others.

He who takes offense when offense was not intended is a fool, yet he who takes offense when offense is intended is an even greater fool for he has succumbed to the will of his adversary.

If you know your ceremonies and culture you'll know where the offense takes place

Our response to an offense determines our future.

Whenever you talk about a Mike Shanahan offense, you're always going to be talking about his offense.

To be in America illegally is actually a civil offense and not a criminal one.

He who forgives readily only invites offense.

Thou shalt not steal. I mean defensively. On offense, indeed thou shall steal and thou must.

Offense is what people take when they can't take argument.

Mastery of awareness requires that you never take personal offense.

The Truth An Offense But Not A Sin

Never start a sentence with the words 'No offense.

The angels don't take offense if we keep asking over and over again.

When there is no offense I make no defense.

A cross without offense to the world is a cross without power in the world.

None are as offended as those who contrive offense.

When someone gives you offense, it doesn't mean you have to take it.

Defense is on the fly, it's reactive; you have to react to the offense. I have to prevent someone from doing something when they want to do it.

To take offense is to give offense.

If an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than that the truth be concealed.

Warrantless wiretapping is an impeachable offense. It couldn't be any clearer.

As his body became more and more defenseless, so his means of offense became steadily more frightful.

Find fault, when you must find fault, in private, if possible; and some time after the offense, rather than at the time.

It was only his fifth offense, and this time he's killed someone.

He who pardons easily invites offense.

Let the punishment be proportionate to the offense.

Whereto serves mercy But to confront the visage of offense?

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

Every offense is avenged on earth.

It is pride which fills the world with so much harshness and severity. We are rigorous to offenses as if we had never offended.

You are not your idea, and if you identify too closely with your ideas, you will take offense when they are challenged.

I don't know exactly what covetous is, but in my experience it is not so much desiring someone else's virtue or happiness as rejecting it, taking offense at the beauty of it.

O my offense is rank, it smells to heaven.

And where the offense is, let the great axe fall.

It's fun leading this offense. I don't think we've hit our peak.

She had a certain way of looking at life which he took as a personal offense.

The gospel cannot be truly preached without offense and tumult.

No one paid attention to my offense. So having 2,000 hits is one of the things that is an accomplishment.

Defense is a lot more natural to me than offense.

And please, don't take offense. It's not an insult if it's true. - Devyn

Little liberties are great offenses.

Too much apology doubles the offense.

Every offense is not a hate at first.

Concentrate on defense because the offense will come.