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For we all often stumble and fall and offend in many things. And if anyone does not offend in speech [never says the wrong things], he is a fully developed character and a perfect man, able to control his whole body and to curb his entire nature. JAMES 3:2 According to this Scripture, the one thing proving our level of spiritual maturity isn't how religious we are—whether we can quote Scripture, or the good works we do—it is the words from our mouths.
— Joyce Meyer
God is more ready to forgive me than I am ready to offend.
— Charles Spurgeon
Love God and do whatever you please: for the soul trained in love to God will do nothing to offend the One who is Beloved.
— St. Augustine
Follow the path of serenity. Why lose your temper if by losing it you offend God, trouble your neighbor and in the end have to set things aright anyway?
— Mother Teresa
I don't know of many evangelicals who want to deny gay couples their legal rights. However, most of us don't want to call it marriage, because we think that word has religious connotations, and we're not ready to see it used in ways that offend us.
— Tony Campolo
Let a thing here be noted, that the prophet of God sometimes may teach treason against kings, and yet neither he nor such as obey the word, spoken in the Lord's name by him, offend God.
— John Knox
Love God and do whatever you please, for the soul trained in love to God will do nothing to offend the One who is Beloved.
— St. Augustine
Aware that His disciples were grumbling about this teaching, Jesus asked them, “Does this offend you?
— John 6:61
You will either offend the world and please God, or please the world and offend God.
— John Hagee
We can assume that when the Bible teaches submission, God knew full well that wives would have to watch their husbands fail and make mistakes. Thankfully, this verse also presents some boundaries. If you submit "out of reverence for Christ," you are never obligated — ever — to do anything that would offend Christ.
— Gary Thomas
Well, I've never really been one to try to be politically correct. I just feel truth is truth, and sometimes I probably offend some people.
— Franklin Graham
We must live in charity with all men, but familiarity with them is not desirable. It sometimes happens that someone personally unknown to us enjoys a high reputation, but that when we meet him, we are not impressed. Similarly, we sometimes imagine that our company is pleasing, when in reality we offend others by our ill behaviour.
— Thomas a Kempis