Top 15 Offence Quotes - Quoted Daily

If I take offence easily; if I am content to continue in cold unfriendliness, though friendship be possible, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

If I take offence easily; if I am content to continue in cold unfriendliness, though friendship be possible, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

Amy Carmichael

Cold, Calvary, Offence

Love the offender, yet detest the offense.

Alexander Pope

Sin, Offense, Offence

Alexander Pope (1848). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: To which is Prefixed a Life of the Author”, p.136

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

Alexander Pope

Love, Sin, Offence

Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson (1836). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope, esq., to which is prefixed the life of the author”, p.136

A small unkindness is a great offence.

Hannah More

Kindness, Offence, Unkindness

Hannah More (1853). “Tragedies, poems”, p.338

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

Mark Dever

Flesh, Sensible, Offence

Source: matthiasmedia.com

Let the punishment be equal with the offence. [Lat., Noxiae poena par esto.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Punishment, Equal, Offence

Satire, being levelled at all, is never resented for an offence by any.

Jonathan Swift

Satire, Offence

'A Tale of a Tub' (1704) 'The Author's Preface'

I have seen players sent off for far worse offences than that.

Alan Brazil

Football, Player, Offence

Truly upon mortals cometh swift of foot their evil and his offence upon him that trespasseth against Right.

Aeschylus

Feet, Evil, Offence

Aeschylus (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aeschylus (Illustrated)”, p.317, Delphi Classics

Let go of offence. Let go of fear. Let go of revenge. Don't live angry, let go now!

Joel Osteen

Letting Go, Revenge, Offence

"Joel Osteen: the new face of Christianity" by Daniel Kalder, www.theguardian.com. March 6, 2010.

But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.

Alan Paton

Offence

Alan Paton (2011). “Too Late The Phalarope”, p.276, Simon and Schuster

To take offence is a great folly, and to give offence is a great folly - I know not which is the greater.

Amelia Barr

Giving, Folly, Offence

Amelia E. Barr (2017). “The Maid of Maiden Lane: A Sequel to "The Bow of Orange Ribbon." A Love Story”, p.242, Sai ePublications via PublishDrive

All offences come from the heart.

William Shakespeare

Heart, Offence

William Shakespeare (1766). “The chronicle history of Henry the Fift. 1608. The contention of the two famous houses of Lancaster and Yorke, in two parts (no date) The tragedie of Richard the Third. 1612. The most lamentable tragedie of Titus Andronicus. 1611. The history of Troylus and Cresseida. 1609”, p.60