Quotes about Omission

We fixate on sins of commission: Don't do this, don't do that—and you're OK. But that is holiness by subtraction. And it's more hypocrisy than holiness! It's the sins of omission—what you would have, could have, and should have done — that break the heart of your heavenly Father.

Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.

You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say

Whenever you see, in an official lectionary, the command to omit two or three verses, you can normally be sure that they contain words of judgment. Unless, of course, they are about sex.

Here again the creeds leave an ominous gap. They don't mention Israel at all.

Whenever you see, in an official lectionary, the command to omit two or three verses, you can normally be sure that they contain words of judgment. Unless, of course, they are about sex. But

But he did not invite Nathan the prophet, Benaiah, the mighty men, or his brother Solomon.

It is difficult to remember all, and ungracious to omit any.

At times, God's history seems to operate on an entirely different plane than ours...Exodus identifies by name the two Hebrew midwives who helped save Moses' life, but it does not bother to record the name of the Pharaoh ruling Egypt (an omission that has baffled scholars ever since).

And this one thing at least is certain; whatever history teaches, whatever it omits, whatever it exaggerates or extenuates, whatever it says and unsays, at least the Christianity of history is not Protestantism. If ever there were a safe truth, it is this.

We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.

was left off the list. The guy was avoided