Quotes by Criss Jami

Nothing amuses people more than a cocky guy who starts losing.

An over-indulgence of anything, even something as pure as water, can intoxicate.

God is so omnipotent yet man so impotent, the Divine masterpiece was not even in creating the universe, but in making sin boring to sinners.

Sanity for anyone is pretty much out of the question, as both the saint and the sinner appear only equally insane: the saint appears it for actually believing in a place of eternal torment; the sinner, for deciding to risk going to that place of eternal torment.

One is not necessarily made self-centered because he is foolish, but one is very often made foolish because he is self-centered.

The more we love God, the more unpleasant sin becomes.

Excuses will become self-refuting. No man who does not believe that Jesus is the perfect, sinless Son of God can, in his desperation and love for sin, reasonably use and misconstrue Jesus words that unless a Christian is perfect, then that Christian cannot judge sin. Otherwise this non-believer is unconsciously entertaining a belief that Jesus, unlike any other man to ever live, was indeed perfect and sinless in His judgments and therefore that Christian is supposed to be like Him.

Humility is, in a sense, admitting how egotistical you are.

Great artists are a little too gifted to be bound by boxes and labels, and in saying that, the label artist is to be used lightly.

It often seems as though the silent, humble servant is secretly wiser and more discerning than the haughty master; yet through dutiful (and sometimes insecure) surrender he continues to serve and carry out petty orders in loyal acquiescence.

The height of cleverness is in ones ability to be very clever without seeming clever at all.

Showing a lack of self-control is in the same vein granting authority to others: Perhaps I need someone else to control me.

If you dont like the solution, change the problem.

Some virtues, when they become fashions, also become exaggerated. Just because nobody likes a judgmental attitude does not mean that there isnt a sort of spoiled, self-righteous hypocrisy when one man obsessively commands other men not to judge without knowing the circumstances without himself, too, knowing their circumstances behind their judgments.

Plot twist: everything goes exactly as planned.

Seeing the glass as half empty is more positive than seeing it as half full. Through such a lens the only choice is to pour more. That is righteous pessimism.

To be extremely happy but extremely intelligent is a task of being optimistic without being cheesy.

Liberalism, contrary to popular belief, is facing backward in considering the injustice of its ancestors. Conservatism, contrary to popular belief, is facing forward in considering the psychology of its descendants. Definitively, it seems in the modern world that neither side really knows which direction its facing, and men of the sharpest judgment are simply turned off from picking either of the poisons.

When I look at a person, I see a person - not a rank, not a class, not a title.

The eye of true equality often seems to have some degree of disrespect for the supposedly accomplished, privileged high and lofty to the supposedly accomplished, privileged high and lofty, although in reality, its simply irrespectiveness.