Quotes by Criss Jami

A steampunk nationBaby pollution rises up then the loving comes arraigning causeOur arts official and only partially artificialAnd our hearts in the middle of sharp hardened shards of metal butTheres not where it settlesBecause its beating to the steaming of Gods hottest pot or kettleAnd now we face it, this creation we made toTo save our craving for a synthetic rebelnation itsOur safeway they make into a pathetic revelationIn our steampunk nationOur steampunk nation

There is a greater Christian faith than one which settles for the temporal happiness, and that is the augmentation of faith. The more faithful you become, the harder the obstacles get; but the harder the obstacles get, the tougher your spine grows; and the tougher your spine grows, the less dependent you are on mans approval. I came to know this about Christianity when valuing faith before comfort.

Disasters work like alarm clocks to the world, hence God allows them. They are shouting, Wake up! Love! Pray!

One of the greatest gifts from God is the eternal perspective. It is a level of fearlessness, a level of understanding where one can experience even emotional harmony with God.

Gods relationship with man does not work in a way in which man stumbles and then God has to drop what he is doing in order to lift him up; rather, man stumbles so that God can lift him up. Hence it is utterly impossible to truly diminish his glory.

Everyone claims to be okay with freedom of religion, but the moment you mention God there is a strange tension that fills the air. If there was a 6th sense, that would be it.

Man was designed in a way in which he must eat in order to give him a solid reason to go to work everyday. This helps to keep him out of trouble. God is wise.

Faith, in its most correct form, never removes responsibility; it removes fear of responsibility. The results are complete opposites with the greater saying, Gods will is my delight.

The barrier during self-improvement is not so much that we hate learning, rather we hate being taught. To learn entails that the knowledge was achieved on ones own accord - it feels great - but to be taught often leaves a feeling of inferiority. Thus it takes a bit of determination and a lot of humility in order for one to fully develop.

Old words are reborn with new faces.

Learning isnt acquiring knowledge so much as it is trimming information that has already been acquired.

Love begets wisdom, thus it is, as often misconceived, more than vain layers of tenderness; it is inherently rational and comprehensive of the problem within the problem: for instance, envy is one of the most excused sins in the media of political correctness. Those you find most attractive, or seem to have it all, are often some of the most insecure at heart, and that is because people assume that they do not need anything but defamation.

Peaceful disputes are maintained when men sincerely believe that they are morally, logically correct about the issues at hand. It is when neither side is really certain that wars are instigated.

People love answers, but only as long as they are the ones who came up with them.

Never marry when under the guise you need to see if itll work, but rather marry because in your mind you want to make it work.

Ive come to the point where I never feel the need to stop and evaluate whether or not I am happy. Im just being, and without question, by default, it works.

You cant be a rebel without the scars that come with it. Truth is, some days scars are just as ugly as they are beautiful.

Good...if youve done things you arent proud of. It means you have a conscience.

Its simple, its not that simple; or life is simple, but the things in it are not. When a man does not understand it, he tends to inflate it. When he does, he tends to deflate it. In the end, neither images are fully accurate.

Never rebel for the sake of rebelling, but always rebel for the sake of truth.