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  • Criss Jami Quote #1

    Advanced technology does not always promise a more intelligent civilization. On the contrary, the more the common people rely on technology to do their thinking and solving for them, the less practice there is left for their own brains.


  • Criss Jami Quote #2

    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.

  • Criss Jami Quote #3

    After each of his books, the writer, for a while, feels once again that he can now die happy.

  • Criss Jami Quote #4

    All great leaders find a sense of balance through their levels of reception. For instance, those who support a leader may soften him, those who ignore him may challenge him, and those who oppose him may stroke his ego.

  • Criss Jami Quote #5

    All individuals have moral deficiencies, and when introducing these to reality one not only strengthens himself but also the confidence of others in the human exigency for Christ due to a reflection throughout the body of Christ.

  • Criss Jami Quote #6

    All knowledge meets an end at the question '...Why?

  • Criss Jami Quote #7

    All men are born firstly with the instinct to protect themselves. But few grow to really love themselves, and even fewer learn to love their neighbor as themselves.

  • Criss Jami Quote #8

    All the good stuff has already been said by someone somewhere at some point in time. You just have to find it. Today, communication pretty much comes down to understanding - saying what you have to say clearly and effectively...and then living it.

  • Criss Jami Quote #9

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

  • Criss Jami Quote #10

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

  • Criss Jami Quote #11

    An anomaly has his own ambitions. You can try reasoning with him, but that's like using money to bribe a beast.

  • Criss Jami Quote #12

    An artistic perspective will jab at you from a different angle; its logic comes like a pitcher with a curveball.

  • Criss Jami Quote #13

    An assumption is the joke; truth the punchline.

  • Criss Jami Quote #14

    An encouraged person will eventually get his drive from encouragement; he becomes more dependent. A person that never really receives encouragement learns to move out of spite; he becomes more independent.

  • Criss Jami Quote #15

    An exceedingly confident student would in theory make a terrible student. Why would he take school seriously when he feels that he can outwit his teachers?

  • Criss Jami Quote #16

    An insincere critic of a sincere person never wins.

  • Criss Jami Quote #17

    An over-indulgence of anything, even something as pure as water, can intoxicate.

  • Criss Jami Quote #18

    Angels are good not simply because they see bad as bad, but also because they see bad as corny.

  • Criss Jami Quote #19

    Anger's like a battery that leaks acid right out of me
    And it starts from the heart 'til it reaches my outer me

  • Criss Jami Quote #20

    Any fool can do something cool and look cool, but it takes skill to make something uncool cool again.

  • Criss Jami Quote #21

    Any halfway clever devil would decorate the highway to Hell as beautiful as possible.

  • Criss Jami Quote #22

    Armed neutrality makes it much easier to detect hypocrisy.

  • Criss Jami Quote #23

    As a kid my heart would break for the villains.

  • Criss Jami Quote #24

    As a poet there is something about joy I find hard to express, whereas every other emotion is rather simple. For instance, you never feel so bad that you can't describe how bad you feel, but joy on the other hand is far too divine for human language.

  • Criss Jami Quote #25

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

  • Criss Jami Quote #26

    As Aristotle said, 'Excellence is a habit.' I would say furthermore that excellence is made constant through the feeling that comes right after one has completed a work which he himself finds undeniably awe-inspiring. He only wants to relax until he's ready to renew such a feeling all over again because to him, all else has become absolutely trivial.

  • Criss Jami Quote #27

    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)?

  • Criss Jami Quote #28

    As for the majority, it is not so much race as it is political affiliation that really divides it today. What was once an issue of physical difference is now one of intellectual difference. Men have yet to master disagreeing without flashing all their frustrations that come with it; the conservative will throw half-truths while the liberal will throw insults. Combine these and what do you get? A dishonest mockery of a country.

  • Criss Jami Quote #29

    As for those who spite you, and seemingly just because, it's only evident that they're learning from you. Maybe you taste bad - kind of like medicine, kind of like truth - and to them, you're thought unsafe. There is flattery in being chewed out and spit up. Humans have always had a hard time digesting foreign things.

  • Criss Jami Quote #30

    As individuals die every moment, how insensitive and fabricated a love it is to set aside a day from selfish routine in prideful, patriotic commemoration of tragedy. Just as God is provoked by those who tithe simply because they feel that they must tithe, I am provoked by those who commemorate simply because they feel that they must commemorate.

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