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
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
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
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
O LORD, You have heard their insults, all their plots against me—
— Lamentations 3:61
When you understand this—and you should because "what hast thou that thou didst not receive?"—you will not flatter yourself on the one hand and on the other hand you will not carry yourself with the thought of resigning from the ministry when you are insulted, reproached, or persecuted.
— Martin Luther
God] said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong. (2 Corinthians 11:30, 12:9—10)
— Louie Giglio
because zeal for Your house has consumed me, and the insults of those who insult You have fallen on me.
— Psalm 69:9