Top 500 Criss Jami Quotes (2025 Update)
Page 8 of 10

351. “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.”

— Criss Jami

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

— Criss Jami

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

— Criss Jami

354. “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.”

— Criss Jami

355. “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.”

— Criss Jami

356. “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.”

— Criss Jami

357. “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.”

— Criss Jami

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

— Criss Jami

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

— Criss Jami

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

— Criss Jami

361. “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.”

— Criss Jami

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

— Criss Jami

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

— Criss Jami

364. “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.”

— Criss Jami

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

— Criss Jami

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

— Criss Jami

367. “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.”

— Criss Jami

368. “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.”

— Criss Jami

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

— Criss Jami

370. “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.”

— Criss Jami

371. “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.”

— Criss Jami

372. “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.”

— Criss Jami

373. “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.”

— Criss Jami

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

— Criss Jami

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

— Criss Jami

376. “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.”

— Criss Jami

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

— Criss Jami

378. “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.”

— Criss Jami

379. “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.”

— Criss Jami

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

— Criss Jami

381. “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.”

— Criss Jami

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

— Criss Jami

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

— Criss Jami

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

— Criss Jami

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

— Criss Jami

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

— Criss Jami

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

— Criss Jami

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

— Criss Jami

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

— Criss Jami

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

— Criss Jami

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

— Criss Jami

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

— Criss Jami

393. “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.”

— Criss Jami

394. “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.”

— Criss Jami

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

— Criss Jami

396. “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.”

— Criss Jami

397. “It is in the nature of man to want what he does not have. This modern concern for happiness seems a real testimony of its absence.”

— Criss Jami

398. “I respect traditional people – they have the eyes which see value in the tarnished. This is a gift in itself. Tradition requires a wealth of discipline in order to be adhered to, hence it is rarely found in youth.”

— Criss Jami

399. “It is neither just the religious, the spiritual, the power-hungry, the evil, the ignorant, the corrupt, the Christian, the Muslim, the Hindu, the Buddhist, the Jew, nor the atheist that makes a hypocrite, but being a human being. Any man who thinks himself to be free of hypocrisy while committed to cherry-picking others for such, I am confident, the Almighty can prove to him a great deal of his own hypocrisy even beyond his earthly comprehension.”

— Criss Jami

400. “Pride has quite a bit to do with hatred. In many a case in which one hates another, one subconsciously begins patterns of cherry-picking and selective hearing: he continues to look only for things about the other person which he can use to justify his hatred, things which will then make him feel less guilty about hating someone. In this regard, hatred is not so much an emotion as it is a decision.”

— Criss Jami