Criss Jami, Healology Quotes
Trustful people are the pure at heart, as they are moved by the zeal of their own trustworthiness.
A wise man's goal shouldn't be to say something profound, but to say something useful.
Never take advice about never taking advice. That is an old vice of men - to dish it out without being able to take it - the blind leading the blind into more blindness.
The last thing Scripture should do is make you blind in the world. Instead, you hear everything, see everything, and feel everything because everything just so happens to point right back to it.
The evangelist is the world's hopeless romantic, and just like a hopeless romantic, he must hope for the miracle of God more than the romance itself.
The hope is indeed that some will experience and believe: The purpose of a number of spiritual gurus is to demonstrate to God-fearing men faux spirituality.
To swear day and night by media slander will make one a bigger victim than the slandered. It doesn't take much to begin to fear a mere illusion of human badness.
I enjoy poetry where I can talk as bizarre as I please, but theology or philosophy, I always respect the truth by taking it a step further.
You can receive all the compliments in the world, but that won't do a thing unless you believe it yourself.
Every new generation believes its own period to be absolutely superior intellectually - greater than all past cultures yet equal among its modern cultures.
If what you create seems to turn out much stranger than who you are as a person, it's probably because your heart is talking.
Let our information and social technologies raise awareness and not propaganda, build connections and not passive-aggression.
The best people are always the worst. They drive everyone mad by being so good at second-guessing everything bad.
A number of our scientists boast intelligence but lack wisdom. I find those to be the predictable ones.
My confidence is in the idea that I may be wrong on this or that. No man in this life should ever have to bear the burden of perfection.
I appreciate a book intended to be judged by its cover. The insincere readers are often weeded out while the sincere readers remain curious.
If you're waiting until you feel talented enough to make it, you'll never make it.
A man who loves others based solely on how they make him feel, or what they do for him, is really not loving others at all - but loving only himself.
Naturally, I always place my word over anyone else's simply because I know why I said what I said.
Trying to be offensive for the sole purpose of being offensive should always deem one the least offensive of offenders.
After each of his books, the writer, for a while, feels once again that he can now die happy.
I am often guilty of expecting the worst so as to avoid disappointment and welcome surprise.
One either cares what others think about him, or cares what others think he thinks about them. If you want to find someone who doesn't care in the slightest what anyone thinks, try a lunatic asylum.
Unprovoked hostility is often but displaced self-defense: 'I must stop him before he stops me.' In many of such environments, nobody is really hateful so much as they are just fearful.
What men classify as living is often but the discontentment of making oneself itch just to enjoy the scratch.
Whether you try too hard to fit in or you try too hard to stand out, it is of equal consequence: you exhaust your significance.
A prophet is always underestimated, and part of what makes one a prophet is that he doesn't really mind it.
If you assume that the new - and simply because it's new - is always to be better than the old, chances are you've never known anything valuable.
I once began to ask around what constitutes a good poem. It felt petty, in a sense. A boy would need no help in deciding which girls he thinks are pretty.
The disruption of science is one which abandons the method and seeks to conquer grounds outside its territory. It is not at all religion but this pseudo-science that is the enemy of science.
Goodness is sparked by a caution for the sake of what is good, not a fear of what is bad.
No man voluntarily expresses his opinion without some intent to make a difference, and even if he does, he shouldn't.
An anomaly has his own ambitions. You can try reasoning with him, but that's like using money to bribe a beast.
For the case that one thinks he has plateaued in life, God has already set yet another peak for him to reach: and a much more challenging peak than his own, one that which is to serve others.
People, generally, are equally insecure. They just show it (or hide it) differently.
God hates sin not because he wants us to be good little boys and girls, but because he knows sin destroys that which he loves most: sinners.
