Criss Jami Quotes
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 love of Christ is always there and unchanging, no matter what we do, but it is when we are obedient that we actually begin to feel it.
In the land where excellence is commended, not envied, where weakness is aided, not mocked, there is no question as to how its inhabitants are all superhuman.
Imagination doesn't always make you long for what you cannot have, but rather thrive in what you do not have.
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 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.
When you mature in your relationship with God you realize how suffering and patience are like eating your spiritual vegetables.
A sign of a lover of wisdom is his delight in not running his mouth about things he doesn't know.
You get hit the hardest when trying to run or hide from a problem. Like the defense on a football field, putting all focus on evading only one defender is asking to be blindsided.
Easily mistaken, it is not about a love for adversity, it is about knowing a strength and a faith so great that adversity, in all its adverse manifestations, hardly even exists.
When you're truly awesome, you know that it's actually a burden and wish day after day to be relieved of such a curse. Think of about 95% of the superheroes.
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.
The reality of loving God is loving him like he's a Superhero who actually saved you from stuff rather than a Santa Claus who merely gave you some stuff.
The common man prays, 'I want a cookie right now!' And God responds, 'If you'd listen to what I say, tomorrow it will bring you 100 cookies.
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.
A rebel adult often seems like a glorious savior, whereas a rebel child often seems like a little devil.
We first become salesmen as children in the confession booths of our parents.
Whenever I think of something but can't think of what it was I was thinking of, I can't stop thinking until I think I'm thinking of it again. I think I think too much.
After awhile you realize that putting your actions where your mouth is makes you less likely to have to put your money where your mouth is.
Tension, in the long run, is a more dangerous force than any feud known to man.
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.
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 further helps to reveal reality is when our personal thinking ceases to take reality for granted.
Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.
I am a fan of overdoing something, but not running it into the ground. They are complete opposites with only a fine line separating them.
I would rather be an artist than a leader. Ironically, a leader has to follow the rules.
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.
I will never deny that life isn't fair. It seems as though when a woman leaves a man she is strong and independent, but when a man leaves a woman he is a pig and a jerk.
What man is really anti-progressive? For he is only anti-certain-people's-visions-for-the-future.
You can receive all the compliments in the world, but that won't do a thing unless you believe it yourself.
The conscious attempt to be a good person without Christ is as legalistic as an attempt to make it into Heaven through empty religiosity.
Feel what it's like to truly starve, and I guarantee that you'll forever think twice before wasting food.
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.
The height of cleverness is in one's ability to be very clever without seeming clever at all.
Tolerance! The virtue that makes one bite his tongue so that he can tear out his hair.
