Quotes by Criss Jami

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The wrong approaches to faith and to skepticism are equally detrimental to the path. For the former declares its answers too soon and is later found false; the latter rejects sound answers altogether and hashes itself useless.

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The foundation of morality on the human sentiments of what is acceptable behavior versus repulsive behavior has always made morals susceptible to change. Much of what was repulsive 100 years ago is normal today, and - although it may be a slippery sl...

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Naturally, I always place my word over anyone else's simply because I know why I said what I said.

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Reason begets honesty, and honesty, if given its head, begets confidence; so consequently, there is a sort of grand authority in the stances of those who know why they are standing.

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Let our information and social technologies raise awareness and not propaganda, build connections and not passive-aggression.

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The last thing Scripture should do is make you blind in the world. Instead, you hear everything, see everything, and feel everything because everything just so happens to point right back to it.

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Goodness is sparked by a caution for the sake of what is good, not fear of what is bad.

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To be intuitive is to possess a godly characteristic, to be bad at second-guessing the good.

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Growing up, I always had a soldier mentality. As a kid I wanted to be a soldier, a fighter pilot, a covert agent, professions that require a great deal of bravery and risk and putting oneself in grave danger in order to complete the mission. Even tho...

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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 i...

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You can receive all the compliments in the world, but that won't do a thing unless you believe it yourself.

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Trustful people are the pure at heart, as they are moved by the zeal of their own trustworthiness.

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Friends ask you questions; enemies question you.

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I never feel unsafe except for when the majority is on my side.

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The evangelist is the world's hopeless romantic, and just like a hopeless romantic, he must hope for the miracle of God more than the romance itself.

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The hardest chore to do, and to do right, is to think. Why do you think the common man would choose labor, partially, as a distraction from his own thoughts? It is because that level of stress, he most absolutely abhors.

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To swear day and night by media slander will make one a bigger victim than the slandered. It doesn't take much to begin to fear a mere illusion of human badness.

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Listen to God with a broken heart. He is not only the doctor who mends it, but also the father who wipes away the tears.

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It might come a time to not follow your passion, so to speak, although it must be prioritized. It may be the case that your passion will serve as the medic, your peace of mind, alongside a higher calling, with your higher calling being the point man.

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Peculiar I say, how so often the smallest, most seemingly insignificant details later unveil their faces as vital means for progression.

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Look for the person everyone hates, and love them.

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