Quotes about Offense

Offense cuts you off from God. We separate ourselves from the pipeline. I've never seen anything block blessings from Heaven except offense.

Forgiveness is not a feeling - it's a decision we make because we want to do what's right before God. It's a quality decision that won't be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.

But isn't the core of forgiveness that the debt is paid? You don't owe the offended anymore.

Don't let your pride or a lack of courage stand in the way of saying you're sorry to people you may have offended.

That which offends you only weakens you. Being offended creates the same destructive energy that offended you in the first place- so transcend your ego and stay in peace.

Although there is validity, I believe, in leaving a church where the leadership consistently presents false doctrine, I also see people who are offended by one remark from the pulpit or one perceived hurt flit to the next church to look for fault there. It's like the cartoon I saw of a skeleton dressed in women's clothes and sitting on a park bench; the caption read, 'Waiting for the perfect man.' There is no perfect church either.

God has never, in the history of mankind, allowed his name to go long offended.

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

The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness.

When God's justice falls, we are offended because we think God owes perpetual mercy. We must not take His grace for granted. We must never lose our capacity to be amazed by grace

There is no gospel without the offence. This is God's wisdom. It never seems sensible to us in our flesh.

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.