What multitudes, O Lord, do this day join hands with Pelagius in contending for free will and in fighting ... free grace.
When Jesus then is with the multitudes, He is not in His house, for the multitudes are outside of the house, and it is an act which springs from His love of men to leave the house and to go away to those who are not able to come to Him.
Free speech is the bedrock of liberty and a free society. And yes, it includes the right to blaspheme and offend.
The single aim of my life is that every child is:
free to be a child,
free to grow and develop,
free to eat, sleep, see daylight,
free to laugh and cry,
free to play,
free to learn, free to go to school, and above all, free to dream.
The etiquette of intimacy is very different from the etiquette of formality, but manners are not just something to show off to the outside world. If you offend the head waiter, you can always go to another restaurant. If you offend the person you live with, it's very cumbersome to switch to a different family.
The social states of human kinds Are made by multitudes of minds, And after multitudes of years A little human growth appears Worth having, even to the soul Who sees most plain it's not the whole.
What you discover about people you try not to offend is that you can offend them without trying.
We should never intentionally offend, but if you follow Jesus, you will offend religious people.
It's OK to offend people with the Gospel, but, good grief- let's don't offend them with something else.
Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.
There's multitudes of factors of why a kick can go in or not.
As Walt Whitman correctly surmised, we are large and we harbour multitudes within us. And those multitudes are locked in chronic battle. There is an ongoing conversation among the different factions in your brain, each competing to control the single output channel of your behaviour.
If I wouldn't offend my religion or God, why would I want to offend an audience because in effect those people are being watched over by the same person.
There are decades in the making of the one man of renown; Multitudes that go unnoticed who must wreathe for him a crown.
Offend a Christian and he is obliged to pray for your salvation. Offend a Muslim and he is obliged to murder you.
The movie industry would never purposely offend homosexuals, native Americans, environmentalists, animal rights activists, or women's groups, but they don't think twice about something that might offend Christians.