Top 500 Criss Jami Quotes (2026 Update)
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351. “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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352. “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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353. “God favors men and women who delight in being made worthy of happiness before the happiness itself.”

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354. “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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355. “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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356. “All knowledge meets an end at the question ’... Why?”

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357. “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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358. “Genius, throughout history, has been found difficult to classify because it varies in amount: It’s rare to find a genius in the context of the noun, but most people, if not all, have a bit of genius in them in the context of the adjective.”

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359. “You can perhaps, in a number of circumstances, tell yourself that you can’t have more than you have until you do better than you’re doing, but by all means steer clear of its reverse, the creed of defeat, in saying that you can’t do better than you’re doing until you can have more than you have.”

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

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362. “Excitement is a crossroad which runs in all directions. No man lacks personality; he just never connected with you at the intersection.”

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

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

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365. “Extreme right-wingers are known for giving God a bad name; extreme left-wingers are known for giving God a weak name. He’s not as simple as conservative versus liberal, old versus new. His wings are balanced. God is both and neither.”

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

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367. “I enjoy melancholic music and art. They take me to places I don’t normally get to go.”

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368. “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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369. “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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370. “Dreams and freedom are the same. In order for them to be, they come with a price.”

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371. “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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372. “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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373. “God will save whomever He chooses to save. The Christian should proselytize not because he thinks he can change everybody; he should proselytize because the Gospel being shared is the ultimate act of love: because he thinks he can love everybody.”

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

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375. “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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376. “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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377. “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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378. “I always make sure that the world will prove me right. It gives me the freedom to contradict myself.”

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

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

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383. “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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384. “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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385. “Be careful not to appear obsessively intellectual. When intelligence fills up, it overflows a parody.”

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386. “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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387. “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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388. “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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389. “It’s much easier on the emotions when one sees life as an experiment rather than a struggle for popularity.”

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

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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. “Man was designed in a way in which he must eat in order to give him a solid reason to go to work everyday. This helps to keep him out of trouble. God is wise.”

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

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395. “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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396. “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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397. “I believe in evolution in the sense that a short-tempered man is the successor of a crybaby.”

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398. “Man has 2 common problems with God: the one is that there is evil in the world; the other is that free will is limited. The one, he is charging that the world is too evil; the other is that it is not evil enough.”

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

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

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