Quotes by Criss Jami

You have to lift a person up before you can really put them in their place.

The writers curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored.

We often hear about stepping outside ourselves, but rarely about stepping outside our generation.

I feel as though whenever I create something, my Mr. Hyde wakes up in the middle of the night and starts thrashing it. I sometimes love it the next morning, but other times it is an abomination.

If I were to vote, I would intentionally vote for the goofiest candidate. It is my theory that when the people can outwit the leader, the more respected their voices will be.

Psychobabble attempts to redefine the entire English language just to make a correct statement incorrect. Psychology is the study of why someone would try to do this.

The logic behind patriotism is a mystery. At least a man who believes that his own family or clan is superior to all others is familiar with more than 0.000003% of the people involved.

I am not sure if women are attracted to genius. Can you imagine the wise wizard winning the woman over the gallant swordsman? It seems rather otherworldly in more ways than one.

The ones who constantly make us laugh are the hardest of friends to know - for comedians are the caricatures among us.

Whenever you feel like feeling like a devils advocate, Bible-thump. That, in a worldly world, is the great irony and satire of evangelism.

I claim neither liberalism nor conservatism - one tends to be airheaded while the other tends to be brickheaded.

The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people.

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.

Its much easier on the emotions when one sees life as an experiment rather than a struggle for popularity.

For God to prove himself on demand, physically, would be a grave disappointment, and the strongest Christians should be considerably grateful that he chooses not to do so. The skeptic endlessly demands proof, yet God refuses to insult the true intelligence of man, the 6th sense, the chief quality, the acumen which distinguishes man from the rest of creation, faith.

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.

In my experiences, the common critic of Christianity, when he thinks of Christianity, imagines a sort of elementary, Sunday School blunder of elements: fiery Hell, an angry God, try not to sin, be good so that you can go to Heaven, absurd miracles, hyper-fundamentalist tales, religious hypocrites, and Jesus telling people not to judge. There is no horse more dead than such. I maintain that understanding Christianity and the Bible is quite like painting a piece of art. Let a toddler paint a puppy; then let an adult who is a long-time painter paint the very same puppy. They are both paintings of the puppy, but one is far more detailed, rational, realistic, and believable than the other. One is distorted and comical; the other is proportional and lively. One can write off Theology if he so pleases, but he might not be very wise in using the toddlers painting when it comes time to identify the real puppy or when trying to confront actual men of the Faith.

In an extroverted society, the difference between an introvert and an extrovert is that an introvert is often unconsciously deemed guilty until proven innocent.

It has always seemed that a fear of judgment is the mark of guilt and the burden of insecurity.