Quotes by Criss Jami

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

“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.”

“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.”

“All things remarkable are surprisingly simple; albeit difficult to find.”

“They call good evil and evil good. There are those who are so easily offended that they lose their ability to ever discern any truth, and this is often derived from a sort of frenzy by way of their own masked prejudice.”

“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.”

“A writer is one who communicates ideas and emotions people want to communicate but arent quite sure how, or even if, they should communicate them.”

“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.”

“Its not about whether or not someone is a bigot, but whether or not the argument which that someone is arguing is worth being a bigot about.”

“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.”

“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.”

“As followers of Christ, we are to be careful not to remain victims of the many cultural presuppositions of who he is, and what he teaches, insofar as taking for granted our own caricatures of him. Let it boil in both mind and heart the question, If Jesus were to appear today, how many of us would actually recognize him and his teachings (or would it simply be a recount of his first visit)?”

“The theistic philosopher has a tendency to devalue insufficient worldviews, ideologies, and quite often common sense for the greater good, and in such cases, one should not be discouraged when seen as a bad guy. If he stresses over mans perception of a righteous heart, then he has given his heart to man.”

“Tension, in the long run, is a more dangerous force than any feud known to man.”

“After awhile you realize that putting your actions where your mouth is makes you less likely to have to put your money where your mouth is.”

“Many people in a rather reckless context claim to just tell it like it is. In actuality, nobody really stresses what one says so much as the motive behind what one says; hence, he is merely blowing hot air and detracting from what is.”