I'm offended by political jokes. Too often they get elected.
On those days when we're not ready to stop being offended, not ready to forgive, still determined to dish out the silent treatment, what we're actually saying is, "Thanks, but I don't want to become more like the Savior today. Maybe tomorrow, but not today. " Perhaps those are the times when we need to pray the hardest, the times it becomes clear that a change in behavior is not enough--that we must have a change in nature.
I wondered if I had offended him. I wondered if I cared.
Blessed is he who will not be offended
It may here be observed, that all who are offended by us are exposed to our view. But the rich man sees Lazarus not with any other righteous man, but in Abraham's bosom. For Abraham was full of love, but the man is convicted of cruelty. Abraham sitting before his door followed after those that passed by, and brought them into his house, the other turned away even them that abode within his gate.
People who wish to be offended will always find some occasion for taking offense.
Life is flying by. You don't have time to waste another minute being negative, offended or bitter. If someone did you wrong, get over it and move forward.
Getting offended is a great way to avoid answering questions that make you sound dumb.
Jokes are great capsules of information. I think they should never be censored. They often are offensive - and we're offended by different things - but I believe deeply in what Freud wrote of their relationship to the unconscious, which is that jokes come to help us. We laugh so as to dispense with, or to express, some ambivalence or discomfort with the things around us. That's what laughing is: a release.
Being inoffensive, and being offended, are now the twin addictions of the culture.
To be offended is a choice we make; it is not a condition inflicted or imposed upon us by someone or something else.
I apologize if anybody was offended by anything I said.
God has never, in the history of mankind, allowed His name to go long offended.
Self-importance requires spending most of one's life offended by something or someone.
Anthony: Now lower your dress a little- Roslynn: Anthony! Anthony: This is no time for offended modesty. . . You're the distraction. Roslynn: Och, well, in that case. Anthony: That's quite low enough, my dear. . . Roslynn: I was only trying to help, Anthony: Commendable, but we want the chap to ogle you, not bust his breeches.
If someone corrects you, and you feel offended, then YOU have an EGO problem
If someone has offended you, start sowing forgiveness. You may need some yourself someday.
None is offended but by himselfe.
I am highly offended by the total lack of acknowledgement of my contribution to Laker success.
I am never offended when I see the drag-queens dressed up like me.