Let what offends God offend me, and what God pardons, I pardon.
I'm not going to be a rebel and offend anybody, but I'm not going to live in somebody else's image.
If a person begins by telling you, 'Do not be offended at what I am going to say,' prepare yourself for something that she knows will certainly offend you.
Tolerance should really only be a passing attitude: it should lead to appreciation. To tolerate is to offend.
Twenty to one offend more in writing too much than too little.
Why don't the names of Buddha, Mohammed, Confucius offend people? The reason is that these others didn't claim to be God, but Jesus did.
Political correctness is the the inability to state certain truths because they may offend certain people
My first choice will always be Real Madrid, but working at a global level for La Liga can't possibly offend anyone.
Nearly everyone I knew talked to me about God. They always warned me not to offend Him.
It seems no matter what you say and how politically correctly and carefully you say it, you offend someone. Or at least I always do.
We want to get people laughing; we don't want to offend anybody.
Can a democratic nation fight a War on Terror and at the same time bend over backward so as not to offend a few visitors' rights?
I heard a white writer say, 'Oh, I'd never put black people in my writing, I'm afraid I would offend someone by doing it wrong.' I can't bear that!
In prosperity, give thanks to God with humility and fear lest by pride you abuse God's benefits and so offend him.
I think people should have the common courtesy and judgment - the good judgment - not to be - not to offend other peoples' faiths.
If the Deseret News is careful not to offend [Nazi] Germany, and I gather that it is falling backwards on the attempt, it is my guess that first of all the Church is afraid of complete banishment.
Commercials were once TV's version of the church. Which is to say, you couldn't offend the sponsor; therefore, certain values had to be underscored in the subject matter.
It's impossible to go through life not offending people. All you have to do is basically have an opinion on anything, and you're gonna offend people.
You decent?” I pulled the towel up a little higher. “Yes, if my wrinkled toes don’t offend.” Marco’s swarthy head popped around the doorjamb. “Naw, they’re cute.
The only time he cries is if he’s hungry. We all have nipples. I don’t care who I offend; my baby wants to eat. If I can’t get a cover over me quick enough, so be it.
I come from a long ago era where men could be men and stereotypical humor didn't offend anybody.
A lot of comedians today have misunderstood the concept of a subversive comedian. If you really want to be subversive, you have to please and offend in equal amounts.
Be careful that what you write does not offend anybody or cause problems within the company. The safest approach is to remove all useful information.
It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
Yeah, Mom, I’ll just keep telling the prince that he has absolutely no shot with me and offend him as often as I can. Great plan.
I have a daughter, I have a wife, and I would never sing something offensive to others - or, specifically, to offend any women.
Nobody sets out to offend or shock for the sake of shocking. You set out to get laughs.
There has been an obvious effort to play it safe, to make 'Bonanza' a good family show that would offend no one and hit a consistent level of mediocrity.
When every word is parsed for ill intention, regardless of who is speaking or why, we become so afraid we'll offend that we stop trying to communicate with people we don't understand.
REPARTEE, n. Prudent insult in retort. Practiced by gentlemen with a constitutional aversion to violence, but a strong disposition to offend. In a war of words, the tactics of the North American Indian.
Coming from The Disney Channel, anything I do is going to offend somehow, somewhere, somehow.
I don't see how can I offend Mexicans with the truth. It is what Mexicans want to hear.
People invade your space and offend your sensibilities because, to be plain, they couldn't care less about you.
He who is humble easily obeys everyone, fears to offend anyone, is at peace with everyone, is kind with all.
Freedom of speech encompasses precisely the freedom to annoy, to ridicule, and to offend.
Every man should follow the bent of his nature in art and letters, always provided that he does not offend against the rules of morality and good taste.
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
When revising, consider whether you have written anything that will hurt or offend a member of your immediate family. If the answer is no, go back and add something.
I think any time you take on touchy subjects, you're going to offend some people, or you're going to please others.
If a man offend a harmless, pure, and innocent person, the evil falls back upon that fool, like light dust thrown up against the wind.
You can only offend me if you mean something to me.
Good teachers are not known for telling you what you want to hear, and consequently they're rarely popular because they tend to offend people on a regular basis by their mere presence on earth.
Freedom of speech includes the freedom to offend people.
Apparently, there's this whole set of disgruntled people but obviously it's not my intention to offend anyone by changing the style of music that I've done.
Music, in even the most terrible situations, must never offend the ear but always remain a source of pleasure.
There is no other way to guard yourself against flattery than by making men understand that telling you the truth will not offend you.
Free speech is the bedrock of liberty and a free society. And yes, it includes the right to blaspheme and offend.
We should do by our cunning as we do by our courage--always have it ready to defend ourselves, never to offend others.
I have thick skin. I'm not a baby. Nothing really offends me. If there's something I think might offend me, I don't listen to it.
We are going to have to discuss with and seek the opinions of other countries. We don't wish to offend anyone, least of all a country we hold in such deep regard as the United Kingdom.
Whoever turns away from us might not offend us in doing so perhaps, but he certainly offends our followers.
That text-books be permitted in Catholic schools such as will not offend the religious views of the minority, and which from an educational standpoint shall be satisfactory to the advisory board.
People have every right to be offended -- but that doesn't mean they get to take away your right to offend.
One cannot offend, make war, kill in the name of one's own religion, that is, in the name of God.
I wanted to push the envelope, and I wanted to go so far as to actually offend both the liberals and the right. I think I have succeeded.
In their rush to placate everyone and offend no one - and in particular to pander to Islam - the Left wants to shut down Christianity.
It's a question of prudence. Nobody has a high opinion of fishwives but who would dare offend them while walking through the fish market.
Be circumspect how you offend schollers, for knowe, a serpent tooth bites not so ill, as dooth a schollers angrie quill.
God is more ready to forgive me than I am ready to offend.
I know I probably offend some people. I have been talking a little too much so I'm trying not to talk as much.
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