Top 500 Criss Jami Quotes (2026 Update)
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301. “These days when Christians bicker they exaggerate passion into a legalistic belief and prosperity into a lukewarm belief.”

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302. “Unprovoked hostility is often but displaced self-defense: ‘I must stop him before he stops me.’ In many of such environments, nobody is really hateful so much as they are just fearful.”

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303. “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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304. “Maturity is when you’re able to say, ‘It’s not just them. It’s me.’”

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

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306. “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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307. “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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308. “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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309. “Man was created to glorify God. Now, that may encompass other things which God has planned for each man, but essentially, man was created to glorify God.”

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310. “Because there are hundreds of different ways to say one thing, I, being a writer, songwriter, and poet, speak childishly and incoherently. In speech there is so much to decide in so little time.”

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311. “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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312. “Unlike wealth, there is an infinite value in legacy.”

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313. “Sometimes it takes a lowly, title-less man to humble the world. Kings, rulers, CEOs, judges, doctors, pastors, they are already expected to be greater and wiser.”

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314. “What is hard work? It takes strength, energy, and stress to truly care about others enough to place oneself last, but it is easy to wrap oneself up and selfishly scramble on the heads of others.”

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315. “I do not care about happiness simply because I believe that joy is something worth fighting for.”

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316. “It always seems as though the definition of love will remain debatable by an opinionated world.”

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317. “Their doubt is your fuel for dreams. You just have to drive.”

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318. “Love does not dwell on how much one receives in return. If there is ever any balance in love, it is in a contest of who can love who more.”

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319. “Never take advice about never taking advice. That is an old vice of men – to dish it out without being able to take it – the blind leading the blind into more blindness.”

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

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321. “God’s relationship with man does not work in a way in which man stumbles and then God has to drop what he is doing in order to lift him up; rather, man stumbles so that God can lift him up. Hence it is utterly impossible to truly diminish his glory.”

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322. “I enjoy poetry where I can talk as bizarre as I please, but theology or philosophy, I always respect the truth by taking it a step further.”

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323. “Trying to be offensive for the sole purpose of being offensive should always deem one the least offensive of offenders.”

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324. “It’s not about going around trying to stir up trouble. As long as you’re honest and you articulate what you believe to be true, somebody somewhere will become your enemy whether you like it or not.”

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325. “When you’re appeasing too much, you might be egotistically over-estimating everyone’s need for your approval.”

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326. “One either cares what others think about him, or cares what others think he thinks about them. If you want to find someone who doesn’t care in the slightest what anyone thinks, try a lunatic asylum.”

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327. “Women rescue men just as much as, if not more than, men rescue women.”

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328. “Even if there are instances in which it can be mistook by onlookers, never fool yourself into using misunderstood genius as an excuse to be a fool.”

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329. “When it comes to judging individuals, I do not like remarks such as ‘too good to be true.’ They speak as though one is rewarding the nature of evil. Yet, ironically, we still wonder where all the good people have gone.”

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330. “It’s a good sign but rare instance when, in a relationship, you find that the more you learn about the other person, the more you continue to desire them. A sturdy bond requires a degree of youthful intrigue. Love loves its youth.”

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331. “The best ideas will eat at you for days, maybe even weeks, until something, some incident, some impulse, triggers you to finally express them.”

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332. “When your only regret is if anyone thinks you regret anything – that is the definition of conviction.”

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333. “The internet is where some people go to show their true intelligence; others, their hidden stupidity.”

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334. “There is a master way with words that cannot be learned but instead developed: a deaf man develops exceptional vision, a blind man exceptional hearing, a silent man, when given a piece of paper...”

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335. “One who enjoys finding errors will then start creating errors to find.”

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336. “Every new generation believes its own period to be absolutely superior intellectually – greater than all past cultures yet equal among its modern cultures.”

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337. “As for those who spite you, and seemingly just because, it’s only evident that they’re learning from you. Maybe you taste bad – kind of like medicine, kind of like truth – and to them, you’re thought unsafe. There is flattery in being chewed out and spit up. Humans have always had a hard time digesting foreign things.”

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338. “The introvert’s anthem for not wanting to hang out is ‘It’s not you; it’s me.”

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339. “Rather than swallowing our pride and simply asking what we do not know, we choose to fill in the blanks ourselves and later become humbled. Wisdom was often, in its youth, proven foolish, and ones humiliated were meant to become wise.”

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340. “Frequent risk-takers have had their fair shares of failures and successes, hence, being confident in reaching their goals, they will usually seem insensitive to whether or not they look foolish or cool to other people.”

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341. “God favors men and women who delight in being made worthy of happiness before the happiness itself.”

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342. “Perhaps a seemingly dull, boring person is not a person who lacks personality, but rather a person with so much personality most other things bore them.”

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343. “Some things are so silly they have a certain brilliance to them. Other things, set as standards for brilliance and therefore exalted by many who don’t know why, become tarnished because of it.”

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344. “Christ delves far beyond the means of superficiality, not simply because of his immaculate love, but also because he considers the distinct cases of each individual rather than withholding a broadened perception by use of stereotypes.”

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345. “What good is there in being blind, you ask? Well, maybe it’s to see the beauty on the inside without being vainly distracted, or superficially blinded, by the ugly on the outside.”

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346. “Anger’s like a battery that leaks acid right out of me And it starts from the heart til it reaches my outer me.”

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347. “Love is one of those topics that plenty of people try to write about but not enough try to do.”

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348. “A part of me genuinely wanted to be the worst because I was so sick of everyone fighting to be the best.”

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349. “What further helps to reveal reality is when our personal thinking ceases to take reality for granted.”

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350. “Some days you feel like you’re the worst of sinners; others like you’re the most righteous person on earth. I am convinced that the former is when you’re closest to God.”

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