Scott Cripps

“Like a madman who throws firebrands, arrows, and death     is the man who deceives his neighbor         and says, “I am only joking!”
― Crossway, ESV Reader's Bible

“If you cannot forgive your brother,
you cannot forgive your friend.
If you cannot forgive your friend,
you cannot forgive your neighbor.
If you cannot forgive your neighbor,
you cannot forgive your enemy.
If you cannot forgive your enemies,
you cannot be forgiven for your sins.

One who forgives his neighbor ten times will be rewarded ten times.
One who forgives his enemy ten times will be rewarded a hundred times.
One who forgives his neighbor infinitely will be rewarded immeasurably.
One who forgives his enemy infinitely will be elevated infinitely.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“A person, for example, reads in adulthood a book that is important for him, and it makes him say, "How could I have lived without reading it!" and also, "What a pity I did not read it in my youth!" Well, these statements do not have much meaning, especially the second, because after he has read that book, his life becomes the life of a person who has read that book, and it is of little importance whether he read it early or late, because now his life before that reading also assumes a form shaped by that reading.”
― Italo Calvino, Mr Palomar

“She had a great many opinions, but taken together they did not add up to a point of view.”
― V. S. Naipul