Top 500 Criss Jami Quotes (2024 Update)
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401. “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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402. “It’s fallacious reasoning for the atheist to hate all religion due to men who manipulate religion to fit their own agendas. They are counterparts, therefore, if Truth is true, partners in crime. To believers, the atheist and the religiously corrupt boil down to the same person, the self-righteous: one denies Truth to fit his own agenda; the other manipulates Truth to fit his own agenda.”

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403. “The hype cheapens the hyped, as right things are then made wrong by exaggeration.”

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404. “Tolerance never exists without negative judgment. It is the sentiment of having a negative opinion about something yet still putting up with it.”

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405. “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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406. “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.”

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407. “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.”

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408. “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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409. “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.”

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410. “You can’t let the truth bring out the worst and let it get the best of you.”

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411. “Peaceful disputes are maintained when men sincerely believe that they are morally, logically correct about the issues at hand. It is when neither side is really certain that wars are instigated.”

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412. “Labeled fools to the world are geniuses to the cosmos.”

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413. “In the heart of appeasement there’s the fear of rejection, and in acts of fear there are mirrors of oppression.”

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

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415. “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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416. “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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417. “If what you create seems to turn out much stranger than who you are as a person, it’s probably because your heart is talking.”

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

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419. “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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420. “There have been times I’ve felt so much art in my soul I grew sick of artists.”

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421. “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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422. “Imagination doesn’t always make you long for what you cannot have, but rather thrive in what you do not have.”

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423. “Perhaps it is true that, by some definitions, Satan is more religious than God. Many of the particularly proud sinners are deceived into thinking that Satan is anti-religious, that he likes seeing people do immoral things simply because he likes immoral things. Doubtful; Satan likes for people to do immoral things so that he can blame them for doing immoral things. The Father of Lies laughs not with his teammates, but at them.”

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424. “When everyone believes they are the life coaches, who are the players?”

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425. “Sanity for anyone is pretty much out of the question, as both the saint and the sinner appear only equally insane: the saint appears it for actually believing in a place of eternal torment; the sinner, for deciding to risk going to that place of eternal torment.”

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426. “There was a time when skepticism was an act of rebellion. Since to a degree I both believe in evolution and have faith, I can only conclude that, as prophesied, to have faith will someday be an act of rebellion.”

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427. “I cannot encourage any fabrication even for the sake of making people feel good. If I were to fabricate consciously and knowingly, I would not only be ordaining myself their enemy, but also ordaining myself God’s enemy.”

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428. “Pseudo-artists think that being an artist means opposing whatever seems to be an establishment. That is not creative at all. True creativity is the ability to gain perspective wherever you may have missed it before.”

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429. “A mature heart for Christ would much rather spend its time praising him than condemning his fanatics.”

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430. “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.”

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431. “If you don’t like the solution, change the problem.”

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432. “Angels are good not simply because they see bad as bad, but also because they see bad as corny.”

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433. “The petty man wants to use God for himself; the ambitious man wants God to use him for God.”

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434. “Always have there been great numbers of individuals who were very much eager to fight for good causes. Always there were these, but then there were even greater numbers of trendies who would then become wholly and completely misguided in the efforts.”

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435. “The surface of learning is hearing what your ears aren’t prepared to hear, and the core of learning is hearing what your ears don’t want to hear.”

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436. “On athleticism, God knows no favor. It seems rather he is in the business of teaching winners how to lose and losers how to win.”

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437. “A god who gave us everything we wanted would be the most malevolent god of all. With an infantile curiosity, we insist on tasting the cockroach on the floor while our father is preparing a magnificent feast for us.”

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438. “We are to love God most importantly so that we can grow to love people as he loved us, not so that we can feel more divine and worthy than the worldly.”

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439. “Unsettling are the days in which everyone is an expert.”

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440. “In a general sense, I admit to valuing the worldviews of men under the age of 40 and women over the age of 30.”

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441. “The greater ignorance towards a country is not ignoring what its politicians have to say, it is ignoring what the inmates in its prisons have to say.”

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442. “On the inside, the copycats of the ruffians are more delicate than the copycats of prudes.”

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443. “It is sometimes but the mere hope for enjoyment that allows one to enjoy something, even when he is not really enjoying it at the moment.”

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444. “They call good evil and evil good. There are those who are so easily offended that they lose their ability to ever discern any truth, and this is often derived from a sort of frenzy by way of their own masked prejudice.”

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445. “Songwriting and poetry are so commonly birthed from underdogs because one can make even the ugliest situations admirable, or more beautiful than the beautiful situations – they are the most graceful media in which the lines of society are distorted.”

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446. “The apologist is most entrusted with apologetics when capable of arguing his opponent’s position better than his opponent.”

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447. “There is a certain delightful sort of hope which the introvert can receive only by having company over... the hope that they will leave soon.”

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448. “Narcissists often feign oppression because narcissists always feel entitled.”

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449. “I am not here to merely argue about the perplexities regarding theism or philosophy, but to be a light to the world and to reach out to those who long to be a part of that light.”

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450. “To swear day and night by media slander will make one a bigger victim than the slandered. It doesn’t take much to begin to fear a mere illusion of human badness.”

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