Quotes by Criss Jami

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No man voluntarily expresses his opinion without some intent to make a difference, and even if he does, he shouldn't.

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Be careful not to appear obsessively intellectual. When intelligence fills up, it overflows a parody.

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There have been times I've felt so much art in my soul I grew sick of artists.

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Pride is born as a mountaintop on a valley, but dies as an abyss in which it is too deep and too dark to see the better.

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Nightmares are seldom a foreshadowing of real events, but always a showing of real fears.

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While there may be various tips, pointers, ingredients, and strategies to success, there is no one formula that always guarantees it other than to keep learning from failure itself.

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Never take advice about never taking advice. That is an old vice of men - to dish it out without being able to take it - the blind leading the blind into more blindness.

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I respect traditional people - they have the eyes which see value in the tarnished. This is a gift in itself. Tradition requires a wealth of discipline in order to be adhered to, hence it is rarely found in youth.

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It is so easy at times for a lonely individual to begin fantasizing about what the people outside are saying about him and, in result, irrationally and fearfully, and sometimes angrily, fancy himself a villain.

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

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The petty man wants to use God for himself; the ambitious man wants God to use him for God.

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If life is music, I sometimes feel as though I was born on the off-beat of the song, and I love it. As Christian numbers reportedly decrease in America, my love for Christ feels as though it increases. I must be honest about such strange feelings: I ...

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

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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 thei...

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The wrath of God is never an evil wrath. God gets angry because he loves people like a mother would love her child if someone were to harm it. There is something wrong if the mother never gets angry; it is safe to say that that is the unloving mother...

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The best people are always the worst. They drive everyone mad by being so good at second-guessing everything bad.

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Unprovoked hostility is often but displaced self-defense: 'I must stop him before he stops me.' In many of such environments, nobody is really hateful so much as they are just fearful.

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What we fail to realize is we often become like Pharisees in our ruthless attempts to identify Pharisees (and impostors). While indeed some people use the old laws of religious pride to tear down men of God, others use the new laws of anti-religious ...

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Lingering, bottled-up anger never reveals the 'true colors' of an individual. It, on the contrary, becomes all mixed up, rotten, confused, forms a highly combustible, chemical compound then explodes as something foreign, something very different than...

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There's nothing new under the sun but the Son. Man's rebellion against God has always been because he would rather fall in pride than rise in humility.

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Love without humility results in the inclination to act as everyone's parent, humility without love results in the need to be everyone's child, and love with humility results in the desire to be a friend.

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