Criss Jami Quote #1
...There are also those who inadvertently grant power to another man's words by continuously trying to spite him. If a man gets to the point where he can simply say, 'The sky is blue,' and people indignantly rush up trying to refute him saying, 'No, the sky is light blue,' then, whether they realize it or not, he has become an authority figure even to such adversaries.
Criss Jami Quote #2
A common mistake we make is that we look for God in places where we ourselves wish to find him, yet even in the physical reality this is a complete failure. For example, if you lost your car keys, you would not search where you want to search, you would search where you must in order to find them.
Criss Jami Quote #3
A distaste for the new is not always fear of the unknown, but sometimes ambition. Some people don't like the new way simply because they never got a chance to master the old way.
Criss Jami Quote #4
A fear of weakness only strengthens weakness.
Criss Jami Quote #5
A fruitless year, take a fearless heart
One that blooms late will flourish in the darkCriss Jami Quote #6
A god who gave us everything we wanted would be the most malevolent god of all. With an infantile curiosity, we insist on tasting the cockroach on the floor while our father is preparing a magnificent feast for us.
Criss Jami Quote #7
A good work ethic is not so much a concern for hard work but rather one for responsibility. There have been a great many men and women who have in fact used work or hustle or selfish ambition as an escape from real responsibility, an escape from purpose. In matters such as these, the hard worker is just as dysfunctional as the sloth.
Criss Jami Quote #8
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.
Criss Jami Quote #9
A lonely day is God's way of saying that he wants to spend some quality time with you.
Criss Jami Quote #10
A major gap between many of the denominations stems from how people define some of the most basic terms, such as 'religion' itself.
Criss Jami Quote #11
A man does not have to feel less than human to realize his sin; oppositely, he has to realize that he gets no special vindication for his sin.
Criss Jami Quote #12
A man of God has many brothers. He is a wounded soldier - he is familiar with the pain one feels in his heart, as a close and loving brother, when a brother falls victim of evil men or turns to evil desires (the latter sometimes even betrayal). Because of this, too, he is and must be well-acquainted with and trained in the strengths of hope and the gentleness of forgiveness and mercy.
Criss Jami Quote #13
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.
Criss Jami Quote #14
A mature heart for Christ would much rather spend its time praising him than condemning his fanatics.
Criss Jami Quote #15
A number of our scientists boast intelligence but lack wisdom. I find those to be the predictable ones.
Criss Jami Quote #16
A part of me genuinely wanted to be the worst because I was so sick of everyone fighting to be the best.
Criss Jami Quote #17
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
Criss Jami Quote #18
A prophet is always underestimated, and part of what makes one a prophet is that he doesn't really mind it.
Criss Jami Quote #19
A pure heart does not demean the spirit of an individual, it, instead, compels the individual to examine his spirit.
Criss Jami Quote #20
A rebel adult often seems like a glorious savior, whereas a rebel child often seems like a little devil.
Criss Jami Quote #21
A rumor is a social cancer: it is difficult to contain and it rots the brains of the masses. However, the real danger is that so many people find rumors enjoyable. That part causes the infection. And in such cases when a rumor is only partially made of truth, it is difficult to pinpoint exactly where the information may have gone wrong. It is passed on and on until some brave soul questions its validity; that brave soul refuses to bite the apple and let the apple eat him. Forced to start from scratch for the sake of purity and truth, that brave soul, figuratively speaking, fully amputates the information in order to protect his personal judgment. In other words, his ignorance is to be valued more than the lie believed to be true.
Criss Jami Quote #22
A sign of a lover of wisdom is his delight in not running his mouth about things he doesn't know.
Criss Jami Quote #23
A sign of power in a man is not only when people follow what he suggests, but also when people make a conscious effort to do the exact opposite of what he suggests.
Criss Jami Quote #24
A steampunk nation
Baby pollution rises up then the loving comes arraigning 'cause
Our art's official and only partially artificial
And our heart's in the middle of sharp hardened shards of metal but
There's not where it settles
Because it's beating to the steaming of God's hottest pot or kettle
And now we face it, this creation we made to
To save our craving for a synthetic rebelnation it's
Our safeway they make into a pathetic revelation
In our steampunk nation
Our steampunk nationCriss Jami Quote #25
A thief is one who insists on sharing his victimhood.
Criss Jami Quote #26
A utopian system, when established by men, is likely to be synonymous with a dystopian depression. The only way for perfect peace by man is absolute control of all wrongs. Bully-cultures find this: with each and every mistake, another village idiot is shamed into nothingness and mindlessly shut down by the herd. This is a superficial peace made by force and by fear, one in which there is no freedom to breathe; and the reason it is impossible for man to maintain freedom and peace for everyone at the same time. Christ, on the other hand, transforms, instead of controls, by instilling his certain inner peace. This is the place where one realizes that only his holiness is and feels like true freedom, rather than like imprisonment, and, too, why Hell, I imagine, a magnified version of man's never-ending conflict between freedom and peace, would be the flesh's ultimate utopia - yet its ultimate regret.
Criss Jami Quote #27
A wise man's goal shouldn't be to say something profound, but to say something useful.
Criss Jami Quote #28
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.
Criss Jami Quote #29
A young outcast will often feel that there is something wrong with himself, but as he gets older, grows more confident in who he is, he will adapt, he will begin to feel that there is something wrong with everyone else.
Criss Jami Quote #30
Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism.
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