Top 500 Criss Jami Quotes (2024 Update)
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351. “One may suffer the long-term in order to grow in appreciation for the small things. For in short-term suffering, one only notices the large.”

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352. “Mankind, in all his lusts, punishes himself. The gods have to do very little.”

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353. “Make way for the sweetest humiliation when you underestimate their intelligence while overestimating your knowledge.”

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354. “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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355. “Astray from a deep sleep chronic as I write by phonics, like insomnia I will always live the onyx night for revealing, and, upon it, still I’ll steal the bright light of day right away just to keep building at speeds hypersonic.”

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356. “Wisdom is nothing more than confirmed imagination: just because one did not study for his exam does not mean that he should leave it blank.”

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

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358. “The complete recipe for imagination is absolute boredom.”

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359. “Christ didn’t join in. He saw which direction the rocks were being thrown, and became a shield.”

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360. “The love of Christ is always there and unchanging, no matter what we do, but it is when we are obedient that we actually begin to feel it.”

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361. “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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362. “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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363. “Love without humility results in the inclination to act as everyone’s parent, humility without love results in the need to be everyone’s child, and love with humility results in the desire to be a friend.”

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364. “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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365. “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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366. “Whatever thing a man gets quickly enraged about is his idol, and whatever thing he makes his idol becomes his religion.”

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367. “It’s much easier on the emotions when one sees life as an experiment rather than a struggle for popularity.”

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368. “One does not have to be a philosopher to be a successful artist, but he does have to be an artist to be a successful philosopher. His nature is to view the world in an unpredictable albeit useful light.”

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369. “Dreams and freedom are the same. In order for them to be, they come with a price.”

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370. “A distaste for the new is not always fear of the unknown, but sometimes ambition. Some people don’t like the new way simply because they never got a chance to master the old way.”

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371. “Good friends will allow you to be as innocent and free as a child when in private, and as wise and mature as an adult when in public.”

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372. “Knowing the truth is so minuscule compared to having the nerve to say it... and even more to live it.”

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373. “Nothing frustrates people more than a cocky guy who’s still winning.”

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374. “Some people’s theologies come across as blatantly wrong when weighed against what is revealed in Scripture. However God has mercy on those who may be wrong but genuinely seek understanding before seeking themselves.”

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375. “All knowledge meets an end at the question ’... Why?”

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376. “Be careful not to appear obsessively intellectual. When intelligence fills up, it overflows a parody.”

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377. “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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378. “Animosity in fact loves, but in a different sense. Meaning it loves in the same way that, as it is often said, misery loves company. And just as love seeks unity, so does hatred crave uniformity.”

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379. “To merely blank the page and vaguely assume that ‘religion’ is the cause of all the world’s problems is, on the contrary, an allegation brought about by nothing more than cognitive lethargy; it is when unburied, unpacked, and exposed but a stale conclusion and a misdirection for the one overwhelmed by centuries of sound theology, scholarly thought, and spiritual development.”

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380. “I always make sure that the world will prove me right. It gives me the freedom to contradict myself.”

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381. “When a man has a gift in speaking the truth, brute aggression is no longer his security blanket for approval. He, on the contrary, spends most of his energy trying to tone it down because his very nature is already offensive enough.”

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382. “If I were to vote, I would intentionally vote for the goofiest candidate. It is my theory that when the people can outwit the leader, the more respected their voices will be.”

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383. “I’m never proud of my old work. I always feel as though my skills have since improved.”

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384. “You can be yourself without pursuing yourself. Have you ever seen a dog chase his own tail? He just runs in circles.”

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385. “An artistic perspective will jab at you from a different angle; its logic comes like a pitcher with a curveball.”

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386. “The conscious attempt to be a good person without Christ is as legalistic as an attempt to make it into Heaven through empty religiosity.”

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387. “Who you are in public is a test of your conviction; who you are in private, integrity.”

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388. “Yes, be different, but not for the vanities of being different.”

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389. “Music is not my life. My life is music.”

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390. “When comprehending how different people truly are, you also comprehend the absolute necessity of some divine authority.”

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391. “By some need to appear intellectual, non-thinkers will instantly and without question subscribe to the opinions of those they feel other people think are educated.”

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392. “We are often taught to look for the beauty in all things, so in finding it, the layman asks the philosopher while the philosopher asks the photographer.”

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393. “The ones who constantly make us laugh are the hardest of friends to know – for comedians are the caricatures among us.”

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394. “I feel as though whenever I create something, my Mr. Hyde wakes up in the middle of the night and starts thrashing it. I sometimes love it the next morning, but other times it is an abomination.”

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395. “I believe in evolution in the sense that a short-tempered man is the successor of a crybaby.”

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396. “Assuming what people want is about as controlled as using fireworks to start a fire.”

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397. “Intelligent people, as some say, in their openness, are indeed slow to criticize, but conversely, in their openness to the concerns of others, the genuine are slow to fret about being criticized.”

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398. “Speaking a painful truth should be done only in love – like wielding a sword with no hilt – it should pain oneself in direct proportion to the amount of force exerted.”

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399. “Hopefully, when your actions and deeds – and therefore other people – boast for you, you’re made tired of hearing it, too, from your own mouth because if not, all could lose sight of those actions and deeds behind the gong of your boasting.”

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400. “To believe in the truth of Christ is to be introduced to another form of hatred, and that is not sharing Him.”

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