Criss Jami Quotes

How easy it is for so many of us today to be undoubtedly full of information yet fully deprived of accurate information.

Because you're always learning, the chief lesson remains: you still know nothing.

Soar with wit. Conquer with dignity. Handle with care.

Have nuts and be nuts.

It is a healthy approach not to expect persons to turn out precisely how you would have wished.

All men are born firstly with the instinct to protect themselves. But few grow to really love themselves, and even fewer learn to love their neighbor as themselves.

They say the crazies come out at night. I say the crazies come out during election year: Elections have the power to turn once seemingly normal people into certified loonies.

April Fools' is the only day to take people seriously.

The Christian God seemed the most offensive to people precisely because he was the most godlike. He was too perfect even to be coaxed by human efforts, and therefore sent his son to do the job.

To fear man's judgment more than God's judgment is to fear man more than God.

Law without reason is criminal.

Best to live and love by the maxim that 'silence in the face of evil is evil itself', but when it's evil fighting evil, let evil kill itself.

Peace ought not be regarded the height of civilization, else like barbarians we forever battle for peace.

Their doubt is your fuel for dreams. You just have to drive.

Freedom of speech is detestable only to those who have no desire to think for themselves.

To be respected is not my concern. So long as I seek to live in obedience to my Lord, respect will come accordingly from the people He deems it necessary.

The way of the consumerist culture is to spend so much energy chasing happiness that it has none left to be happy.

I am not convinced within myself that to its core and as a whole, humanity has, as some like to assume, progressed a great deal over the millennia. Human technology? Of course. Human beings? Hardly.

To understand even remotely the holy omnipotence of God is to understand at least from mostly to wholly the magnificence of Christ.

If beauty is relative, then any and everything when compared to the beauty of God is absolutely hideous.

For the believer, humility is honesty about one's greatest flaws to a degree in which he is fearless about truly appearing less righteous than another.

Christ commands his people to love their enemies, because if not, that would rule out pretty much the entire world.

Growing up I sometimes imagined that for Christ's return perhaps He would appear as 'Black Jesus' to white people and 'White Jesus' to black people just to screw with the racists.

Some of the simplest of truths are also some of the most difficult of truths, but such is Christianity: 'If it's not about Christ, it's not about life.

Every exceptional bias against Christianity I find to be evidence for its validity.

Without Christ a people may always have the freedom to do, but never the power to complete.

I'm a peasantI'm the muzhikA pest you're destined to play the musicAnd yes it's pleasant to say it's beauty I'mIndebted to rest respecting it truly

It is by continuing to put out good work that the artist best shows his gratitude.

In the heart of appeasement there's the fear of rejection, and in acts of fear there are mirrors of oppression.

It is not that men become too intelligent for God, ' says the Apologist, 'but rather they become too arrogant for intelligence.

Any halfway clever devil would decorate the highway to Hell as beautiful as possible.

If Christians always seemed to be the most intelligent and the most righteous of men, I'd be a skeptic.

Only the man who thinks himself a fool is as wise as he thinks.

Unsettling are the days in which everyone is an expert.

Knowing the truth is so minuscule compared to having the nerve to say it...and even more to live it.

You can never make someone like something they don't like, but you can always help them to better understand it.

There is this common notion that people are shallow and ignorant until they go out and see the world. I, on the other hand, went out and in comparison realized I was in pretty good standing.

The survival of poor opinions can make a thinker feel as though he is failing humanity.

So, how close are love and genius, really? We know that they are both mentioned far more than lived.

You wander. You work nearly every job known to man, it seems, only to arrive at the wonderings of philosophy.

Angels are good not simply because they see bad as bad, but also because they see bad as corny.

To be intuitive is to possess a godly characteristic: to be bad at second-guessing the good.

Be careful not to appear obsessively intellectual. When intelligence fills up, it overflows a parody.

People will seek the ends of the galaxy to avoid that which they need most.

God writes love and speaks poetry.

Any coward can be a peacekeeper! In fact, that comes to one naturally. But they are blessed, the peacemakers...and all those who know the difference.

You might be an introvert if you were ready to go home before you left the house.

There are 2 kinds of fighters: those who fight because they hate, and those who fight because they love.

No matter how kind you are, always expect a few imbeciles.

Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live.