Quotes by Criss Jami

Always seek justice, but love only mercy. To love justice and hate mercy is but a doorway to more injustice.

I always make sure that the world will prove me right. It gives me the freedom to contradict myself.

Tolerance! The virtue that makes one bite his tongue so that he can tear out his hair.

Cleverness isnt always true nor is the truth always clever.

Who you are in public is a test of your conviction; who you are in private, integrity.

Of course, in our train of thought, we would all like to think were on the right track, or at least the same railroad company as the right track.

Beware: open-mindedness will often say, Everything is permissible except a sharp opinion.

There was a time when skepticism was an act of rebellion. Since to a degree I both believe in evolution and have faith, I can only conclude that, as prophesied, to have faith will someday be an act of rebellion.

Just as some people may conceal their own sinfulness thus seeming better than the norm, others expose their own sinfulness thus seeming worse than the norm.

Trustful people are the pure at heart, as they are moved by the zeal of their own trustworthiness.

It is debatable whether blind faith is truly faith at all. Faith is the perceptive gray area where scientific facts meet an individuals experiential truths - the extreme of the former is left feeling in the dark whereas the latter is caught blinded by the light. By proper scientific method, it is intellectually dishonest for me to declare the existence of God with utmost certainty, but to my individual spirit, I would be intellectually dishonest to deny the existence of God even for a second. This leaves the best of both worlds, as the believer is called to be able to give reasons for his faith, a deviation from mere fantasy.

As a writer of philosophy, its good to ask oneself, Will I still believe this a week from now, or months, or even years?

It always seems as though the definition of love will remain debatable by an opinionated world.

Take lightly what you hear about individuals. We need not distort trust for our paltry little political agendas. We tend to trust soulless, carried information more than we trust soulful human beings; but really most people arent so bad once you sit down and have an honest, one-on-one conversation with them, once, with an open heart, you listen to their explanations as to why they act the way they act, or say what they say, or do what they do.

When we begin to reflect Christ, the Bible, when more understood as being centered around Christ, seems to be potentially every mans biography regarding Gods promised experiences and truth for him - his individual, unique path of humbling oneself before the Lord and then being exalted by the Lord back into his true and righteous personhood. Many followers may speak of it merely to try to change other people (before changing themselves), but the prophets speak of it as a living word which miraculously tells their very own experiences.

If its true what is said, that only the wise discover the wise, then it must also be true that the lone wolf symbolizes either the biggest fool on the planet or the biggest Einstein on the planet.

In Gods eyes, a man who teaches one truth and nothing else is more righteous than a man who teaches a million truths and one lie.

I never feel unsafe except for when the majority is on my side.

What further helps to reveal reality is when our personal thinking ceases to take reality for granted.

Were very familiar with the idea that some things are so complex theyre beyond our comprehension. This not only keeps us solving and experimenting but also distracted. Many things are really so simple we cant see them under our big noses.