Criss Jami Quotes

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.

Maturity is when you're able to say, 'It's not just them. It's me.'

When we find that God's ways always coincide with our own ways, it's time to question who we're really worshipping, God or ourselves.

If ever you feel like an animal among men be a lion.

There is more to joy than looking only for affirmation; refusing to be challenged is the only bigotry.

Drunken men give some of the best pep talks.

The spirit of arrogance most definitely makes you shine. It paints a bright red target on your own forehead.

Vivid simplicity is the articulation, the nature of genius. Wisdom is greater than intelligence; intelligence is greater than philosobabble.

People don't care about being duped as long as they're happy, which is the shortest form of happiness; hence 'self-duprication' becomes a habit.

As a writer of philosophy, it's good to ask oneself, 'Will I still believe this a week from now, or months, or even years?'

The trouble with poetry is it's often written to the sound of a drum only the poet may hear; nonetheless, blessed are those poets who always manage to find unshakeable pleasure in their own works.

The first ingredient to being wrong is to claim that you are right.

Don't change your mind just because people are offended; change your mind if you're wrong.

Everyone judges constantly: positively judging one person is the same as negatively judging everyone else; it is to say that that person is superior in some sense.

Anger's like a battery that leaks acid right out of me And it starts from the heart til it reaches my outer me

Cleverness isn't always true nor is the truth always clever

Beware: open-mindedness will often say, 'Everything is permissible except a sharp opinion.'

In the philosophical dialect, a cynic takes an insult as a compliment since opposition is already his style.

To be heroic is to be courageous enough to die for something.

Seeing the glass as half empty is more positive than seeing it as half full. Through such a lens the only choice is to pour more. That is righteous pessimism

A man does not have to feel less than human to realize his sin; oppositely, he has to realize that he gets no special vindication for his sin.

Simply minding one's own business is more offensive than being intrusive. Without ever saying a word one can make a person feel less-than.

Everyone has a natural slant towards seeking themselves. This gets in the way of seeking God unless God intervenes.

In societies where coolness and being cool is a top priority, the religious replace the word 'religious' with 'spiritual' to make their faiths seem less extreme.

Tell me that the purpose of life is to have fun, and without a care in the world I'll begin wreaking havoc on everything I pass. Now that's what I call pure, honest fun.

It's not at all hard to understand a person it's only hard to listen without bias.

Everyone has a sense of humor. If you don't laugh at jokes, you probably laugh at opinions.

Question like a child, reason like an adult, and write like a sage.

Always seek justice, but love only mercy. To love justice and hate mercy is but a doorway to more injustice.

Cleverness isn't always true nor is the truth always clever.

Beware: open-mindedness will often say, 'Everything is permissible except a sharp opinion.

As a writer of philosophy, it's good to ask oneself, 'Will I still believe this a week from now, or months, or even years?

I'm always talking to God about whether or not he exists - that's how I know I'm a theist.

When you find that a theology has nothing more to offer than what the world already offers, then that theology as a theology is impractical, and therefore, useless.

Never marry when under the guise you need to 'see if it'll work', but rather marry because in your mind you want to make it work.

Good...if you've done things you aren't proud of. It means you have a conscience.

Store up knowledge. Then question your own knowledge in order to expand your mind, both to build and to create more space. Then store up more knowledge. And so on. That is wisdom.

Respect? Of course, always, to all, because everything seems funnier when you're trying to show respect.

There is a certain delightful sort of hope which the introvert can receive only by having company over...the hope that they will leave soon.

Anger's like a battery that leaks acid right out of meAnd it starts from the heart 'til it reaches my outer me

Oh I know it's cliché but yeah they say that great men make it in-To places few others who even do take the risk've ever been

There have been times I've felt so much art in my soul I grew sick of artists.

You ask me why I don't speakNot a word at willBut write so much worth well over a mill'Well I value words like I value kissesA sober one, a closer one penetrates the heartDarling it's how it mends it

If I knew what to doI'd do more than write a song for you

There is a master way with words which is not learned but is instead developed: a deaf man develops exceptional vision, a blind man exceptional hearing, a silent man, when given a piece of paper...

It's a huge disservice to classify all minds as either closed or open. I find the best minds are closed by openable windows.

To respect a mystery is to make way for the answer.

If your doctrine changed for the better yet your character changed for the worse, you changed for the worse.

All knowledge meets an end at the question '...Why?

Pure wisdom is the 'fruit of life' banal platitudes are the 'bane of existence'.