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Quotes about Insults

For it is not an enemy who insults me; that I could endure. It is not a foe who rises against me; from him I could hide.
— Psalm 55:12
In the same way, the chief priests, scribes, and elders mocked Him, saying,
— Matthew 27:41
And they said many other blasphemous things against Him.
— Luke 22:65
Then they heaped insults on him and said, “You are His disciple; we are disciples of Moses.
— John 9:28
Persecution may wear an insulting face. Insults may come as a result of a Christian's lifestyle, which should be different from that of the secular world.
— Billy Graham
They who load us with insults and ignominies give us the means of acquiring treasures more precious than any that man can gain in this life.
— Ignatius of Loyola
Flinging himself from his horse, he made, in his rage, as if he would breast the flood. Standing knee-deep in water he hurled at the faithless woman all the insults that have ever been the lot of her sex. Faithless, mutable, fickle, he called her; devil, adulteress, deceiver; and the swirling waters took his words, and tossed at his feet a broken pot and a little straw.
— Virginia Woolf
The violent rioting that is sometimes now being called protesting - it makes the emotions so high that you almost cannot see the insults and injuries that are the people are suffering.
— Alveda King
O LORD, You have heard their insults, all their plots against me—
— Lamentations 3:61
Faith desires to let God be God. Sin has framed God, whether by the ultimate insults that he, the creator of all things, does not exist, or that he, the white-hot holy One, is responsible for the evil and suffering that humans have introduced into his good creation.
— Os Guinness
Argue not concerning God,…re-examine all that you have been told at church or school or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your soul…
— Walt Whitman
because zeal for Your house has consumed me, and the insults of those who insult You have fallen on me.
— Psalm 69:9