Top 500 Criss Jami Quotes (2026 Update)
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451. “I am not sure if women are attracted to genius. Can you imagine the wise wizard winning the woman over the gallant swordsman? It seems rather otherworldly in more ways than one.”

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452. “The apologist is most entrusted with apologetics when capable of arguing his opponent’s position better than his opponent.”

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

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

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455. “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.”

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456. “Any coward can be a peacekeeper! In fact, that comes to one naturally. But they are blessed, the peacemakers... and all those who know the difference.”

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457. “I claim neither liberalism nor conservatism – one tends to be airheaded while the other tends to be brickheaded.”

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458. “So, how close are love and genius, really? We know that they are both mentioned far more than lived.”

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459. “The vanity of intelligence is that the intelligent man is often more committed to ‘one-upping’ his opponent than being truthful. When the idea of intelligence, rather than intelligence itself, becomes a staple, there is no wisdom in it.”

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460. “Let them spend their time condemning every action of persons they do not like; by this let them revoke their own condemnation licenses: no one will take them seriously when it comes time to condemn something that really needs to be condemned, and thus hear, hear, despite the excess noise, the reasonable voices may prevail.”

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461. “There is a certain delightful sort of hope which the introvert can receive only by having company over... the hope that they will leave soon.”

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462. “Narcissists often feign oppression because narcissists always feel entitled.”

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463. “In a general sense, I admit to valuing the worldviews of men under the age of 40 and women over the age of 30.”

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464. “It is sometimes but the mere hope for enjoyment that allows one to enjoy something, even when he is not really enjoying it at the moment.”

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465. “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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466. “The Christian who loves his Master needs not fear any longer for himself. For it is then completely irrational, as it is written thus: ‘Perfect love casts out fear.’ However, it is very much rational for one to instead fear for the enemies of God.”

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467. “It is not so much freedom of speech but the right to truth that great men protect.”

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468. “Always have there been great numbers of individuals who were very much eager to fight for good causes. Always there were these, but then there were even greater numbers of trendies who would then become wholly and completely misguided in the efforts.”

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469. “Christians sometimes make themselves into elephants afraid of mice. You have the Creator of the universe on your side; not to mention, you’ve been given eternal life. ‘Whom or what shall you fear?’ To be afraid of anything other than God himself is like an insult to God.”

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470. “We are to love God most importantly so that we can grow to love people as he loved us, not so that we can feel more divine and worthy than the worldly.”

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471. “Unsettling are the days in which everyone is an expert.”

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472. “A number of our scientists boast intelligence but lack wisdom. I find those to be the predictable ones.”

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473. “Character that is fruit-producing can be summed up in the mastery of these 5 qualities: morals, but a sense of humor; love, but respect for criticism; intelligence without pretense; humility without self-loathing; and a mind open, but with solid convictions.”

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474. “The greater ignorance towards a country is not ignoring what its politicians have to say, it is ignoring what the inmates in its prisons have to say.”

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475. “Keep your finger on the pulse of society, take controversies with a grain of salt, lick your finger and then lift it to the wind; always know what is going on, my friend, so this world can never steer you wrong again.”

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476. “I am not here to merely argue about the perplexities regarding theism or philosophy, but to be a light to the world and to reach out to those who long to be a part of that light.”

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477. “The surface of learning is hearing what your ears aren’t prepared to hear, and the core of learning is hearing what your ears don’t want to hear.”

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478. “In learning and argumentation, the quality brain is similar to a facility of maximum security. What passes the logic test, free of fallacy and pretense, then must pass the test of biblical accuracy in order to proceed as an adopted, reliable truth.”

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479. “We first become salesmen as children in the confession booths of our parents.”

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480. “It’s always funny that you can try and try again to steal all your critics’ ammo, predict their responses, but no matter what, they’ll still have a water gun stashed somewhere.”

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481. “A major gap between many of the denominations stems from how people define some of the most basic terms, such as ‘religion’ itself.”

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482. “The poorly sophisticated, since many of us are, as presumed to be, lacking in good arguments, we are then prone to being well-versed in insults.”

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483. “If I were to believe in God enough to call him a murderer, then I might also believe enough that he, as a spirit, exists beyond death; and therefore only he could do it righteously. For the physical being kills a man and hatefully sends him away, whereas God, the spiritual being, kills a man and lovingly draws him nigh.”

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484. “Some skeptics believe religious people are religious because they fear Hell. It’s about as fair as saying skeptics are skeptics because they fear the ridicule of modern society.”

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485. “Fame is an island, and right before the castaway, the getaway of being known without being known.”

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486. “There is more to joy than looking only for affirmation; refusing to be challenged is the only bigotry.”

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487. “Static people love to compensate for their inability to change themselves by always trying to change the world.”

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488. “Science is knowledge meeting humility meeting curiosity: ever-evolving, always learning. Atheism is often but knowledge meeting arrogance: a masquerade under the wing of the beauty of science. Religion is infamously a weight under the one wing; then under the other is atheism, the championed masquerade.”

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489. “Happiness is good, but well-overrated: what we hate most are the very motivators that put us in gear. A man drifts along with little to contribute until something agitates him enough to make a difference, whether for himself or for his communities.”

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490. “But the Egotist is stuck somewhere between his hidden triad of pride, fear, and insecurity; he is forever fighting to prove himself, instigating battles the Humbleman has unwittingly conquered, already sealed some time ago. Yes, the day he finally accepts face-to-face such an irony as humility – the irony that humility is indeed the mother of giants, that great men, having life so large, as needed, can afford to appear small – the world will then know peace.”

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491. “Like most arts, the link between the mind and the pen can chain you like an enslaved workaholic. Even on an intended vacation you suddenly have this killer urge to record whatever the vacation may teach.”

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492. “If truth is like the terrain, are we the generation who sees it as one who has worn shoes all his life or one who has never worn shoes? Yet still, even if the walk starts out as painful, the experience may be well worth it.”

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493. “In a society where dirt sells, for every good story told as it is, you will hear the whole of that day’s 10 bad stories sensationalized; although in reality, it could be that 100 good deeds happened that day which went unsung.”

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494. “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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495. “The best of fiction, as we know, of course, doesn’t tell the truth; it tales the truth.”

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496. “Just as some people may conceal their own sinfulness thus seeming better than the norm, others expose their own sinfulness thus seeming worse than the norm.”

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497. “Everything at some point has been declared the root of all evil.”

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498. “I still believe that many Americans have a deep longing for that glorious moment when a sermon is more Biblical than American.”

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499. “Even when the truth is in fact simple, simplicity is still relative.”

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500. “We live in an age so legalistic, we find it hard to imagine someone wanting to obey their Lord simply because they love their God.”

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