Criss Jami Quotes
The hard part about one being tough yet meek is the illusion of being a punching bag.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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'.
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.
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.
The height of cleverness is in one's ability to be very clever without seeming clever at all.
To be extremely happy but extremely intelligent is a task of being optimistic without being cheesy.
When I look at a person, I see a person - not a rank, not a class, not a title.
Love does not dwell on how much one receives in return. If there is ever any balance in love, it is in a contest of who can love who more.
Oftentimes winning can become an addiction, whether good or bad, to the point where you would rather lose it all before you lose at all.
I appreciate a book intended to be judged by its cover. The insincere readers are often weeded out while the sincere readers remain curious.
Some things are so silly they have a certain brilliance to them. Other things, set as standards for brilliance and therefore exalted by many who don't know why, become tarnished because of it.
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.
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.