Quotes by Criss Jami

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 arent prepared to hear, and the core of learning is hearing what your ears dont want to hear.

The whole bloated sensation of success is wiped clean when among family. There is no pressure of being looked upon as the brilliant one but rather the comforts of always being the pupil.

To the short-sighted, through the fog, God must be a monster.

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 whos swell.

Even the richest of brands are robbed by poor character.

The apologist is most entrusted with apologetics when capable of arguing his opponents position better than his opponent.

To love without need or without expectation of restitution, that is how we ought to love.

Do not tell someone you are hungry if, whenever they feed you, you do not eat.

Christianity is at its purest a philosophy about a person, Jesus Christ, and at its dirtiest a philosophy about requirements and law.

Love is without a doubt the laziest theory for the meaning of life, but when it actually comes a time to do it we find just enough energy to over-complicate life again. Any devil can love, whom he himself sees as, a good person who has treated him well, but to love also the polar opposite is what separates love from fickle emotions.

Hypocrisy versus authenticity among men is not always so black and white, and as is righteousness, humility is often self-proclaimed. The Church is most definitely supposed to be a hospital for the spiritually, emotionally, mentally, and physically sick, hurting, and broken individual, yet ironically, many of its critics are those who ran away and permanently denounced its members after they visited and felt that they were sneezed on.

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.

Let what offends God offend me, and what God pardons, I pardon.

Leads erasing then vanishingBanished from whatever it is theyre drinking and its cleanedRunning from the pitcher as if its her fantasy

Growing up I often wondered how the world would be today if, since the beginning of human life, every person acted as I did.

To reach only for that which pleasantly enchants you is the least of imagination, if even imagination at all, by the obvious reality of remaining within your means. The greater of imagination is parallel to risk. It extends beyond your comfort zone or haven, or sense of beauty, or what you personally believe suits you in exploration of what may not.

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

There are no keys to success - only tools.