Criss Jami Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
-
“When a man is penalized for honesty he learns to lie.”
-- Criss JamiSource : Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.106, Criss Jami
-
“The man who is most aggressive in teaching tolerance is the most intolerant of all: he wants a world full of people too timid and ashamed to really disagree with anything.”
-- Criss JamiSource : Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.32, Criss Jami
-
“It is a noble responsibility to not back down when you know that you know that you know that you are right.”
-- Criss JamiSource : Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.68, Criss Jami
-
“There are two circumstances that lead to arrogance: one is when you're wrong and you can't face it; the other is when you're right and nobody else can face it.”
-- Criss JamiSource : Criss Jami (2013). “Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality”, p.47, Criss Jami
-
-
“If you want to find the real competition, just look in the mirror. After awhile you'll see your rivals scrambling for second place.”
-- Criss JamiSource : Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.45, Criss Jami
-
“The best ideas will eat at you for days, maybe even weeks, until something, some incident, some impulse, triggers you to finally express them.”
-- Criss Jami -
“Disasters work like alarm clocks to the world, hence God allows them. They are shouting, 'Wake up! Love! Pray!”
-- Criss Jami -
“One who enjoys finding errors will then start creating errors to find.”
-- Criss JamiSource : Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.1, Criss Jami
-
-
“I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation.”
-- Criss Jami -
“What may intimidate a man is a woman who thinks with her mind before she feels with her heart. Nevertheless what determines the strength in the man is his ability to accept one when he sees one.”
-- Criss Jami -
“A lonely day is God's way of saying that he wants to spend some quality time with you.”
-- Criss JamiSource : Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.101, Criss Jami
-
“A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.”
-- Criss Jami -
-
“You can't let the truth bring out the worst and let it get the best of you.”
-- Criss Jami -
“We are to give (and take) true love without falling into the narcissistic habit of only trying to take it in.”
-- Criss Jami -
“The writer's curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored.”
-- Criss Jami -
“Hypocrisy versus authenticity among men is not always so black and white, and as is righteousness, humility is often self-proclaimed. The Church is most definitely supposed to be a hospital for the spiritually, emotionally, mentally, and physically sick, hurting, and broken individual, yet ironically, many of its critics are those who ran away and permanently denounced its members after they visited and felt that they were sneezed on.”
-- Criss Jami -
-
“It's not at all hard to understand a person; it's only hard to listen without bias”
-- Criss JamiSource : Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.59, Criss Jami
-
“To be truly positive in the eyes of some, you have to risk appearing negative in the eyes of others.”
-- Criss Jami -
“When emerging from humble beginnings, those around you tend to underestimate your authenticity because they knew you before you were 'somebody'.”
-- Criss Jami -
“In order to share one's true brilliance one initially has to risk looking like a fool: genius is like a wheel that spins so fast, it at first glance appears to be sitting still.”
-- Criss Jami -
-
“Society tells me to follow my own truth, but I don't let society tell me what to do. If you need someone to tell you that, chances are you're part of the crowd that will move on to the next fashion that comes around.”
-- Criss Jami -
“To be acceptable is for one to ignore his weakness while knowing his strength, to cover the scar even though it's always there, however, to be impossible is for one to see his weakness as, not an adversary, but the cherry on top of his strength, to rearrange the scar so that it compliments his features.”
-- Criss Jami -
“Cleverness isn't always true nor is the truth always clever”
-- Criss Jami -
“The hated man is the result of his hater's pride rather than his hater's conscience.”
-- Criss Jami -
-
“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 man's perception of a righteous heart, then he has given his heart to man.”
-- Criss Jami -
“Man has 2 common problems with God: the one is that there is evil in the world; the other is that free will is limited. The one, he is charging that the world is too evil; the other is that it is not evil enough.”
-- Criss Jami -
“The weather is nature's disruptor of human plans and busybodies. Of all the things on earth, nature's disruption is what we know we can depend on, as it is essentially uncontrolled by men.”
-- Criss Jami -
“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.”
-- Criss Jami -
-
“Everyone has their own ways of expression. I believe we all have a lot to say, but finding ways to say it is more than half the battle.”
-- Criss Jami -
“I often ask myself, 'Who would Jesus vote for?' Then I start to think that he wouldn't vote at all; however, it would not be out of apathy or disinterest, but out of perfection and light. As a miracle worker, I think he would, by the power of God's teachings, the perseverance and the truth, influence in a modern sense whoever is put into office how to best serve his fellow men. One, like his skeptics, may find that impractical. But there is a message in that no man in power can slow the momentum of the will of God, and the miracles of his teachings will be forever victorious.”
-- Criss Jami
You may also like:
-
David Nicholls
Novelist -
Dejan Stojanovic
Poet -
Jeanette Winterson
Writer -
Katherine Mansfield
Writer -
Michael Connelly
Author -
Sarah Addison Allen
Author -
Sasa Stanisic
Writer