Top 500 Criss Jami Quotes (2025 Update)
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451. “Unsettling are the days in which everyone is an expert.”

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452. “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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453. “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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454. “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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455. “On the inside, the copycats of the ruffians are more delicate than the copycats of prudes.”

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

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

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460. “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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461. “When we find that God’s ways always coincide with our own ways, it’s time to question who we’re really worshipping, God or ourselves.”

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

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463. “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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464. “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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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. “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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467. “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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468. “We first become salesmen as children in the confession booths of our parents.”

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

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470. “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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471. “A man who goes into a restaurant and blatantly disrespects the servers shows a strong discontent with his own being. Deep down he knows that restaurant service is the closest thing he will ever experience to being served like a king.”

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

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

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474. “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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475. “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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476. “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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477. “Fame is an island, and right before the castaway, the getaway of being known without being known.”

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478. “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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479. “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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480. “Everything at some point has been declared the root of all evil.”

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481. “To the loyal and to the blood-lovers, in the good families and in the fiery dynasties, life is family and family is life. It is the same people who give advice and their vices to live well who turn out to be the ones who give resource and reason to live long.”

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

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

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

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487. “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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488. “When focusing only on one’s credentials one boasts his own incompetence in his capacity for discernment of the individual.”

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489. “Some of the simplest of truths are also some of the most difficult of truths, but such is Christianity: ‘If it’s not about Christ, it’s not about life.”

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490. “It is a harsh reality that some of the most important and respectable jobs which deserve high salaries might be better off with low salaries. A politician, or a minister, or a teacher is sure to be working sincerely and selflessly for the good of the people when through and through there is little monetary reward guaranteed. This is how the charlatans are weeded out of the field.”

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491. “The idea that all souls are mortal is the only notion surely terminating love and all its forms.”

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492. “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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493. “Never marry when under the guise you need to ‘see if it’ll work’, but rather marry because in your mind you want to make it work.”

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

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495. “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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496. “If you’re not a smart worker, it’s about how hard you work double the amount from the heart; if you’re not a hard worker, it’s about how smart you work but times two from the brain.”

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

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498. “People think that fun in Christ is non-existent, but there is fun wherever your heart lives.”

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499. “If you assume that the new – and simply because it’s new – is always to be better than the old, chances are you’ve never known anything valuable.”

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500. “Every exceptional bias against Christianity I find to be evidence for its validity.”

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