Criss Jami, Killosophy Quotes
A sign of power in a man is not only when people follow what he suggests, but also when people make a conscious effort to do the exact opposite of what he suggests.
I'm never proud of my old work. I always feel as though my skills have since improved.
The unteachable man is sentenced to being taught only by experience. The tragedy is he reaches nothing further than his own pain.
What is hard work? It takes strength, energy, and stress to truly care about others enough to place oneself last, but it is easy to wrap oneself up and selfishly scramble on the heads of others.
You think you're losing your mind, but do keep in mind, as long as you may, that the ability to go on thinking such a thing means it's not all gone.
The greater ignorance towards a country is not ignoring what its politicians have to say, it is ignoring what the inmates in its prisons have to say.
We first become salesmen as children in the confession booths of our parents.
God loves atheists. The former ones make the most compelling theists because they're so empirically familiar with how atheists think.
The hardest thing for a sane person to do is not care what anyone thinks, although everyone swears by it, hence our glorification of insanity.
The hard part about one being tough yet meek is the illusion of being a punching bag.
What man is really anti-progressive? For he is only anti-certain-people's-visions-for-the-future.
People think that fun in Christ is non-existent, but there is fun wherever your heart lives.
To believe in the truth of Christ is to be introduced to another form of hatred, and that is not sharing Him.
A major gap between many of the denominations stems from how people define some of the most basic terms, such as 'religion' itself.
An exceedingly confident student would in theory make a terrible student. Why would he take school seriously when he feels that he can outwit his teachers?
It is better to doubt that a concept is stupidly flying under your head than profoundly flying over your head.
The surface of learning is hearing what your ears aren't prepared to hear, and the core of learning is hearing what your ears don't want to hear.
I am not here to merely argue about the perplexities regarding theism or philosophy, but to be a light to the world and to reach out to those who long to be a part of that light.
Ingredients to success: know what you do well, know what to do well, and know someone who's swell.
The apologist is most entrusted with apologetics when capable of arguing his opponent's position better than his opponent.
A mature heart for Christ would much rather spend its time praising him than condemning his fanatics.
Treat people like people. Beware of pity and patronization because in them, you can't see when you're unashamedly looking down on someone.
When you're appeasing too much, you might be egotistically over-estimating everyone's need for your approval.
To spend your time wanting things is to smother your time for achieving things beyond your expectations.
A part of me genuinely wanted to be the worst because I was so sick of everyone fighting to be the best.
If one should criticize one should always have a meaningful explanation to accompany.
The older you get, the more you understand how your conscience works. The biggest and only critic lives in your perception of people's perception of you rather than people's perception of you.
The conscious attempt to be a good person without Christ is as legalistic as an attempt to make it into Heaven through empty religiosity.
A distaste for the new is not always fear of the unknown, but sometimes ambition. Some people don't like the new way simply because they never got a chance to master the old way.
Feel what it's like to truly starve, and I guarantee that you'll forever think twice before wasting food.
Great philosophers become immortal - they make undeniable impacts on culture.
Whatever thing a man gets quickly enraged about is his idol, and whatever thing he makes his idol becomes his religion.
Intelligent people, as some say, in their openness, are indeed slow to criticize, but conversely, in their openness to the concerns of others, the genuine are slow to fret about being criticized.
The most mesmerizing of artists is always like one who was merely drawing in the sand and people came to watch.
It is never just disagreement but always intellectual dishonesty that is the apologist's worst enemy. And its apprentice is ignorance.
It is not so much freedom of speech but the right to truth that great men protect.
I still believe that many Americans have a deep longing for that glorious moment when a sermon is more Biblical than American.
One of the Christian's biggest fears is appearing 'too Christian'. God forbid, because that's often characterized as god-awful! We want to be one, but without being 'one of them'.
Generally, there is a lot of truth value in stepping back, observing, then logically generalizing the extremes of what you see.
Great artists are a little too gifted to be bound by boxes and labels, and in saying that, the label 'artist' is to be used lightly.