Top 500 Criss Jami Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “I imagine that the intelligent people are the ones so intelligent that they don’t even need or want to look ‘intelligent’ anymore.”

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252. “History fancies itself linear – but yields to a cyclical temptation.”

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253. “A man does not have to feel less than human to realize his sin; oppositely, he has to realize that he gets no special vindication for his sin.”

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254. “From recovery to rags and rags to recovery symbolizes art – a perfect compilation of human imperfections.”

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255. “Faith, in its most correct form, never removes responsibility; it removes fear of responsibility. The results are complete opposites with the greater saying, ‘God’s will is my delight.’”

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256. “Tension, in the long run, is a more dangerous force than any feud known to man.”

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257. “A rebel adult often seems like a glorious savior, whereas a rebel child often seems like a little devil.”

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258. “How easy it is for so many of us today to be undoubtedly full of information yet fully deprived of accurate information.”

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259. “The first reaction is surely the most natural one, but not always the most correct one; thereupon, the invention of apologies.”

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260. “We often hear about stepping outside ourselves, but rarely about stepping outside our generation.”

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261. “To be heroic is to be courageous enough to die for something.”

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262. “A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.”

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263. “It is better to doubt that a concept is stupidly flying under your head than profoundly flying over your head.”

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264. “Envy is Pride’s infection on inspiration... while Angered then Eaten by the Greed of a Lazy Lust.”

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265. “Emotion is always multiplied in the art of a person who doesn’t really show much emotion. It once expanded deep within his hidden soul, and following the downplay his audience is blown away.”

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266. “I would rather be an artist than a leader. Ironically, a leader has to follow the rules.”

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267. “Competition works best in sports, but humans get addicted to stuff.”

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268. “Whenever we want to combat our enemies, first and foremost we must start by understanding them rather than exaggerating their motives.”

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269. “To the short-sighted, through the fog, God must be a monster.”

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270. “Women show men beauty in things beyond their ambitions. Women tell men to stop and smell the roses.”

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271. “Christians walk as strangers in the world: They are untamed. They are free. To persevere with love, yet untamed by man, is often what leaves that open space for divine revelation when God so wills.”

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272. “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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273. “For the believer, humility is honesty about one’s greatest flaws to a degree in which he fearless about truly appearing less righteous than another.”

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274. “Envy is a sign of insecurity, yes; but so is longing to be envied.”

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275. “Whenever you feel like feeling like a devil’s advocate, Bible-thump. That, in a worldly world, is the great irony and satire of evangelism.”

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276. “A prophet is always underestimated, and part of what makes one a prophet is that he doesn’t really mind it.”

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277. “I only seem negative to the fortunate. That’s because I show the less fortunate that they aren’t less fortunate after all.”

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278. “Great artists are a little too gifted to be bound by boxes and labels, and in saying that, the label ‘artist’ is to be used lightly.”

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279. “If beauty is relative, then any and everything when compared to the beauty of God is absolutely hideous.”

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280. “Of course, in our train of thought, we would all like to think we’re on the right track, or at least the same railroad company as the right track.”

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281. “Peace is more of an internal settlement rather than what is visible on the external.”

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282. “The hardest thing for a sane person to do is not care what anyone thinks, although everyone swears by it, hence our glorification of insanity.”

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283. “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 one’s natural self.”

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284. “A sign of a lover of wisdom is his delight in not running his mouth about things he doesn’t know.”

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285. “When it comes to world news, attitude is what marks the distinction between justice and vengeance. Justice is pure, but vengeance brings more ruin.”

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286. “The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people.”

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287. “It is not true that everyone is special. It is true that everyone was once special and still possesses the ability to recover it.”

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288. “When you aren’t satisfied with what has already been done, make something better. That is the greatest responsibility and the true freedom of creativity. The freedom is in that it doesn’t need to complain.”

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289. “Of course we’ll win. And even if we were to lose, we’d win at losing.”

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290. “Your love is as stable as you are: It’s not about how good a person makes you feel, but rather what good you can do for them.”

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291. “The way of the consumerist culture is to spend so much energy chasing happiness that it has none left to be happy.”

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292. “The hope is indeed that some will experience and believe: The purpose of a number of spiritual gurus is to demonstrate to God-fearing men faux spirituality.”

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293. “These days when Christians bicker they exaggerate passion into a legalistic belief and prosperity into a lukewarm belief.”

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294. “The purest regret, no matter what, is thinking you didn’t love enough.”

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295. “If only we were all better educated. If then, higher education would at last be a journey for skill and knowledge rather than for power and status.”

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296. “The pride of man hopes but to blame God for the evils of the world, and to praise himself for the good.”

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297. “Pure wisdom is the ‘fruit of life’; banal platitudes are the ‘bane of existence’.”

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298. “When most of the greatest individuals in history were misunderstood and you’ve spent so much of your own adult life misunderstood, you can’t help but believe that the majority of people know very little worth knowing.”

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299. “I’ve come to the point where I never feel the need to stop and evaluate whether or not I am happy. I’m just ‘being’, and without question, by default, it works.”

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300. “Perhaps not everything happens for a reason. That is, until you make it so; because for everything there is a season, which can, in fact, become beautiful.”

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