#offense

When a man has a gift in speaking the truth, brute aggression is no longer his security blanket for approval. He, on the contrary, spends most of his energy trying to tone it down because his very nature is already offensive enough. ↗

— Criss Jami

#approval #authority #blanket #brute-force #brutes

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet deep down in his private heart no man much respects himself. ↗

— Mark Twain

#respect #respect

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

— Holly Lisle

#life #offense #writing #death

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#give #noble #offense #should #take

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

— Henry Ward Beecher

#forgiveness #god #into #kisses #like

To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#foundation #future #lay #offense

I believe all life has value, from conception to natural death. And I believe the intentional taking of human life, except to save lives, should be a capital offense, as it is in most states in America today. ↗

— Tom Coburn

#believe #capital #conception #death #except

Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it. ↗

— Rene Descartes

#cannot #high #i #me #my soul

When I interview people accused of capital offenses, I never even ask if they did it. I would consider that unprofessional. ↗

— Joseph Wambaugh

#ask #capital #consider #did #even

It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher. ↗

— George Whitefield

#gives #hearer #himself #makes #neither