Quotes by Criss Jami

To esteem what makes you holy over what makes you happy - that is the greatest dare.

Lingering, bottled-up anger never reveals the true colors of an individual. It, on the contrary, becomes all mixed up, rotten, confused, forms a highly combustible, chemical compound then explodes as something foreign, something very different than ones natural self.

His mindIt says survival of the fittest butHis soulRevival of the idiotsSo good riddance, dancing

The best of fiction, as we know, of course, doesnt tell the truth; it tales the truth.

Nightmares are seldom a foreshadowing of real events, but always a showing of real fears.

It is so easy at times for a lonely individual to begin fantasizing about what the people outside are saying about him and, in result, irrationally and fearfully, and sometimes angrily, fancy himself a villain.

People dont care about being duped as long as theyre happy, which is the shortest form of happiness; hence self-duprication becomes a habit.

As for the secularist belief that says if we were to eliminate all religions, the world would know peace, this is the Atheist Heaven; thus it is so important to him (although perhaps more laughable than some say the Christian Heaven). It is about as useless as saying if all people were true Christians, the world would know peace, or if all people were devout Muslims, the world would know peace. And even yet, the secular dream could remain active only for a time before generational rebellion and freedom of thought were to kick in anew.

Our poor world aspires simply to point out where Christians have gone wrong, and that is pretty much where it goes wrong. It is as though many of us, when of the world, are actually all the more judgmental: for we are stuck on a bad Christian while the Christian is pinned to a good Christ.

You are the enemy and a vessel through which the cure flows - if Christ lives in you, then you are an embodiment of the very shot this hostile and crying world needs as it, in every waking moment, struggles belligerently to resist.

Im not a political Christian; for the most part I allow people even their vain, earthly rights. And I certainly dont see anti-Christians as bad or evil (as if they actually have the power to pose any kind of threat against God Almighty), but rather complete idiots I was commanded to love.

Christ didnt join in. He saw which direction the rocks were being thrown, and became a shield.

Respect elders; protect children. This I do believe. As a young man it is sometimes, in a charitable sense, difficult to shake the sentiment that every elderly person is my grandparent, and every child is my child.

That which you love most will then become both your strength and your weakness.

Good friends will allow you to be as innocent and free as a child when in private, and as wise and mature as an adult when in public.

Love without humility results in the inclination to act as everyones parent, humility without love results in the need to be everyones child, and love with humility results in the desire to be a friend.

A man of God has many brothers. He is a wounded soldier - he is familiar with the pain one feels in his heart, as a close and loving brother, when a brother falls victim of evil men or turns to evil desires (the latter sometimes even betrayal). Because of this, too, he is and must be well-acquainted with and trained in the strengths of hope and the gentleness of forgiveness and mercy.

Seemingly minor yet persistent things penetrate the mind over time making it difficult to ever realize the impact; hence, though quite unfortunate, the most dangerous forms of corruption are those that are subtle and below the radar.

In the age of technology there is constant access to vast amounts of information. The basket overflows; people get overwhelmed; the eye of the storm is not so much what goes on in the world, it is the confusion of how to think, feel, digest, and react to what goes on.

The skeptic says that the believer has lost his own mind under God. On the contrary, it is the people who follow God who are most like his children, who willingly and consciously walk in his will; but those who oppose him oppose him vainly and at their own expense, and, figuratively, seem to be more like his tools. They dont diminish his glory, but instead he still manages to use them in ways of unconsciously carrying out his will.