Criss Jami Quotes
The most fragile, unhappy people destine themselves to live lives of constantly reminding themselves to be happy.
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.
It is sometimes but the mere hope for enjoyment that allows one to enjoy something, even when he is not really enjoying it at the moment.
A prophet is always underestimated, and part of what makes one a prophet is that he doesn't really mind it.
You are believing not in your god but in yourself if your god knows no better than you do...and yet, in this alone, I am afraid, you have already been fooling yourself.
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.
Naturally, I always place my word over anyone else's simply because I know why I said what I said.
Silence might be a shout for the truth. It might be the speech that someday, in its truest, most uncontaminated, unadulterated state, all will be revealed.
God wants us to humbly and sincerely ask him things. How often do you enjoy people talking about you without taking the time to get to know you?
I'm starting to think that my level of intrigue outweighs my fear of controversy.
On athleticism, God knows no favor. It seems rather he is in the business of teaching winners how to lose and losers how to win.
While there may be various tips, pointers, ingredients, and strategies to success, there is no one formula that always guarantees it other than to keep learning from failure itself.
Peculiar I say, how so often the smallest, most seemingly insignificant details later unveil their faces as vital means for progression.
The whole bloated sensation of success is wiped clean when among family. There is no pressure of being looked upon as 'the brilliant one' but rather the comforts of always being the pupil.
Christianity is at its purest a philosophy about a person, Jesus Christ, and at its dirtiest a philosophy about requirements and law.
Lead's erasing then vanishingBanished from whatever it is they're drinking and it's cleanedRunning from the pitcher as if it's her fantasy
Growing up I often wondered how the world would be today if, since the beginning of human life, every person acted as I did.
I've finally decided to write about profit for a changeBut before I really started I already started to feel lameBaby what's it to a beast who manely to money remains untamed
In a sense, discouragement does not have to exist. Allow it to be rather the encouragement to honestly reconsider all the options, then, as necessary, shine on.
There is not one harsher, more sure-fire way to fail than that of the man who tries to be like Jesus without submitting to Jesus.
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.
People, generally, are equally insecure. They just show it (or hide it) differently.
Perhaps a seemingly dull, boring person is not a person who lacks personality, but rather a person with so much personality most other things bore them.
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.
Let me be content with myself to the degree that my capacity to serve others is present, yet discontent with myself to the degree that I may still like to grow in better service for others.
An anomaly has his own ambitions. You can try reasoning with him, but that's like using money to bribe a beast.
No man voluntarily expresses his opinion without some intent to make a difference, and even if he does, he shouldn't.
The only truths worth arguing about are those truths that could prevent or lead to circumstances that may bite us in the rear sooner or later.
The man who sins but wants to purify it is no more a sinner than the man who doesn't sin but wants to sin.
It's okay to be honest about not knowing rather than spreading falsehood. While it is often said that honesty is the best policy, silence is the second best policy.
We live in an age so legalistic, we find it hard to imagine someone wanting to obey their Lord simply because they love their God.
The pride of man hopes but to blame God for the evils of the world, and to praise himself for the good.
Misguided good men are more dangerous than honest bad men. It is because they are seen as good that, in and by good conscience, the mob will always, stubbornly back them without question.
Goodness is sparked by a caution for the sake of what is good, not a fear of what is bad.
As time moves on the line will blur. It will no longer seem to be the simplicity of good versus evil, but good versus fools who think they are good.
Self-awareness - the commendable ability to be yourself without being a nuisance to someone else.
On the inside, the copycats of the ruffians are more delicate than the copycats of prudes.
Sure, some of us humans might be angry at a sovereign God about Hell, but know that that is about as meaningful as a few germs being angry at humans about bleach.
When making a point, there are 2 types of people who may disagree with you: those who can support their reasons, and the childish ones who are too worried about being told what to do.