Quotes by Criss Jami

The disruption of science is one which abandons the method and seeks to conquer grounds outside its territory. It is not at all religion but this pseudo-science that is the enemy of science.

The thing about stereotyping is its usually just throwing rocks into a crowd hoping to hit somebody who deserves it.

My heart goes out to some of those rather hostile yet highly intelligent individuals who may see problems really because they have solutions. That hostility is learned in defense; not offense. An often stubborn and prideful world, in its self-destructive, temporary bliss of ignorance, may be violently resistant to the watchful mind.

It is never just disagreement but always intellectual dishonesty that is the apologists worst enemy. And its apprentice is ignorance.

Just because something isnt a lie does not mean that it isnt deceptive. A liar knows that he is a liar, but one who speaks mere portions of truth in order to deceive is a craftsman of destruction.

The only thing more frustrating than slanderers is those foolish enough to listen to them.

With enough mental gymnastics, just about any fact can become misshapen in favor to ones confirmation bias.

It is not so much freedom of speech but the right to truth that great men protect.

God gives His deepest discernment and sharpest marksmanship to men who aim to expose His truth before an enemys lies.

I still believe that many Americans have a deep longing for that glorious moment when a sermon is more Biblical than American.

There is a difference between criticizing people and criticizing a peoples uninformed ideals. That is, unless one defines himself or others by their ideals, then he is offended, and usually offended secretly. Because oddly enough, this person is the same person quickest to resort to dismissive name-calling, such as bigot or zealot. And oddly enough, he is always the one, the open-minded one, who adamantly protests for, not only himself, but others not to listen to any type of scholarly theological truth inherently for the sake of his own personal, moral beliefs.

One of the Christians biggest fears is appearing too Christian. God forbid, because thats often characterized as god-awful! We want to be one, but without being one of them.

There is such a thing as righteous judgment, but it seems that lately the word judgment has become a curse word, period. The issue isnt whether or not were insightful enough to avoid being judgmental, but whether or not were secure enough to accept being judged. It is inevitable for every conscious human being to judge. It may spring from insight and experience and sincerity, and in such cases, it is quite beneficial on the receiving end.

Joy, like love, is an impenetrable, God-given state of being. The distinctions between joy and happiness and love and affection are important ones under the notion that happiness is an iffy emotion, a highly dependent feeling both aroused and destroyed by external conditions apart from God. And the distinction between love and affection is parallel to such.

A man who loves others based solely on how they make him feel, or what they do for him, is really not loving others at all - but loving only himself.

Todays zealots are mostly those pretending to be anti-religious.

There is nothing new under the sun but that of the Son. Mans rebellion against God has always been because he would rather fall in pride than rise in humility.

If you assume that the new - and simply because its new - is always to be better than the old, chances are youve never known anything valuable.

Generally, there is a lot of truth value in stepping back, observing, then logically generalizing the extremes of what you see.

Gods judgment is not like mans judgment. It is not a suspension of His Love but an extension of His Love. His justice is always righteous, so His judgment is always Love.