Criss Jami Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Criss Jami
Criss Jami Famous Quotes & Sayings
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The first reaction is surely the most natural one, but not always the most correct one; thereupon, the invention of apologies.
The only truths worth arguing about are those truths that could prevent or lead to circumstances that may bite us in the rear sooner or later.
It is not true that everyone is special. It is true that everyone was once special and still possesses the ability to recover it.
A true prophet would rather be believed false by many but actually true than believed true by many but actually false.
A writer is one who communicates ideas and emotions people want to communicate but aren't quite sure how, or even if, they should communicate them.
I think that I am too warm to negatively judge individuals, yet I am cold enough to negatively judge humanity.
We live in an age so legalistic, we find it hard to imagine someone wanting to obey their God simply because they love their God.
A lack of common sense usually ends in some heroic feat, much like the soldier who dives onto the grenade so that others may live.
Feel what it's like to truly starve, and I guarantee that you'll forever think twice before wasting food.
The love of Christ is always there and unchanging, no matter what we do, but it is when we are obedient that we actually begin to feel it.
A solid answer to everything is not necessary. Blurry concepts influence one to focus, but postulated clarity influences arrogance.
Simply minding one's own business is more offensive than being intrusive. Without ever saying a word one can make a person feel less-than.
From recovery to rags and rags to recovery symbolizes art - a perfect compilation of human imperfections.
The hardest thing for a sane person to do is not care what anyone thinks, although everyone swears by it, hence our glorification of insanity.
Treat people like people. Beware of pity and patronization because in them, you can't see when you're unashamedly looking down on someone.
We are to give (and take) true love without falling into the narcissistic habit of only trying to take it in.
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.
If beauty is relative, then any and everything when compared to the beauty of God is absolutely hideous.
When you mature in your relationship with God you realize how suffering and patience are like eating your spiritual vegetables.
Your love is as stable as you are: It's not about how good a person makes you feel, but rather what good you can do for them.
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.
Where everyone wants to be a leader, it makes one a follower to want to be a leader, and a leader to know what to follow.
You can't be a rebel without the scars that come with it. Truth is, some days scars are just as ugly as they are beautiful.
If you want to find the real competition, just look in the mirror. After awhile you'll see your rivals scrambling for second place.
I claim neither liberalism nor conservatism - one tends to be airheaded while the other tends to be brickheaded.
To be truly positive in the eyes of some, you have to risk appearing negative in the eyes of others.
The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is the pretense of intelligent ignorance. The former is teachable; the latter is not.
Knowing the truth is so minuscule compared to having the nerve to say it ... and even more to live it.
What is a genius? A person who demands little to nothing from others, but is often found extremely difficult to have around.
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.
Tolerance never exists without negative judgment. It is the sentiment of having a negative opinion about something yet still putting up with it.
When comprehending how different people truly are, you also comprehend the absolute necessity of some divine authority.
In the heart of appeasement there's the fear of rejection, and in acts of fear there are mirrors of oppression.
Everyone has a natural slant towards seeking themselves. This gets in the way of seeking God unless God intervenes.
What further helps to reveal reality is when our personal thinking ceases to take reality for granted.
The greater ignorance towards a country is not ignoring what its politicians have to say, it is ignoring what the inmates in its prisons have to say.
An artistic perspective will jab at you from a different angle; its logic comes like a pitcher with a curveball.
Respect? Of course, always, to all, because everything seems funnier when you're trying to show respect.
If we all knew who God really was and what he really wanted for each and every one of us, we would all know that only a fool could really deny him.
Christianity is at its purest a philosophy about a person, Jesus Christ, and at its dirtiest a philosophy about requirements and law.
Of course, in our train of thought, we would all like to think we're on the right track, or at least the same railroad company as the right track.
Generally, there is a lot of truth value in stepping back, observing, then logically generalizing the extremes of what you see.
Those who speak of progression but are afraid of change are self-repressed and therefore unable to reach any further than their eyes can already see.
Whenever we want to combat our enemies, first and foremost we must start by understanding them rather than exaggerating their motives.