Top 500 Criss Jami Quotes (2024 Update)
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451. “The Bible does not say money is the root of all evil; it says the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. A poor man who, in his heart, worships the idea of being rich is more vulnerable to its evils than a rich man who has a heart to use it all for the Lord.”

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

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454. “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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455. “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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456. “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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457. “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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458. “There is more to joy than looking only for affirmation; refusing to be challenged is the only bigotry.”

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459. “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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460. “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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461. “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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462. “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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463. “So the paradox goes: No man who is really ignorant is ever aware that he is ignorant. That is its finest, most faulty manifestation; there can be no true ignorance without first some claim of intelligence or consciousness, or superiority or enlightenment.”

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

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466. “Good... if you’ve done things you aren’t proud of. It means you have a conscience.”

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467. “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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468. “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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469. “It is not so much freedom of speech but the right to truth that great men protect.”

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

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472. “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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473. “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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474. “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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475. “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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476. “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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477. “We first become salesmen as children in the confession booths of our parents.”

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

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479. “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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480. “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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481. “The best of fiction, as we know, of course, doesn’t tell the truth; it tales the truth.”

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482. “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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483. “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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484. “Even when the truth is in fact simple, simplicity is still relative.”

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

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

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489. “That most pleasant weather to feel is the one never felt.”

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

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491. “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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492. “In a sense, discouragement does not have to exist. Allow it to be rather the encouragement to honestly reconsider all the options, then, as necessary, shine on.”

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

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

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495. “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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496. “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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497. “There are 2 kinds of artists, essentially: those who want to make something popular, and those who want to make something dignified. But then there is still that rare hybrid case, and perhaps by that unintentional stroke of genius, in which one’s work uncontrollably becomes both popular and dignified yet beyond its time.”

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

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499. “One’s suffering, one’s melancholy is, in itself, really only looked upon as failure or as punishment, as detestable or sinful or socially unacceptable in the eyes of man; but this is not so in the eyes of God: for He is close to the broken-hearted.”

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500. “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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