Top 500 Criss Jami Quotes (2026 Update)
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401. “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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402. “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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403. “I believe in evolution in the sense that a short-tempered man is the successor of a crybaby.”

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404. “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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405. “Music is not my life. My life is music.”

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

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407. “Respect? Of course, always, to all, because everything seems funnier when you’re trying to show respect.”

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408. “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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409. “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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410. “The hype cheapens the hyped, as right things are then made wrong by exaggeration.”

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411. “To esteem what makes you holy over what makes you happy – that is the greatest dare.”

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412. “Do not tell someone you are hungry if, whenever they feed you, you do not eat.”

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413. “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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414. “Faithfulness imparts God’s reason for all circumstances. No matter what the world says, losing is no longer an option.”

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415. “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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416. “We have better relationships with those who truly seek us rather than those sitting on the couch watching us move mountains trying to prove ourselves.”

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417. “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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418. “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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419. “To respect a mystery is to make way for the answer.”

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420. “If your doctrine changed for the better yet your character changed for the worse, you changed for the worse.”

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421. “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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422. “Heroic ambition seemed to have been the cause of much of the world’s pain then – quite like it is now. No villain ever saw himself a villain: he only saw himself a hero; and this goes just as no hero ever saw himself a hero: he simply did what he had to do. No true hero initially sets out with intentions of being deemed a hero.”

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423. “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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424. “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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425. “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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426. “If you don’t like the solution, change the problem.”

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427. “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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428. “Many people in a rather reckless context claim to ‘just tell it like it is’. In actuality, nobody really stresses what one says so much as the motive behind what one says; hence, he is merely blowing hot air and detracting from ‘what is’.”

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429. “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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430. “The Bible does not say money is the root of all evil; it says the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. A poor man who, in his heart, worships the idea of being rich is more vulnerable to its evils than a rich man who has a heart to use it all for the Lord.”

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

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432. “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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433. “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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434. “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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435. “Labeled fools to the world are geniuses to the cosmos.”

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436. “To the loyal and to the blood-lovers, in the good families and in the fiery dynasties, life is family and family is life. It is the same people who give advice and their vices to live well who turn out to be the ones who give resource and reason to live long.”

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

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438. “I am not sure if women are attracted to genius. Can you imagine the wise wizard winning the woman over the gallant swordsman? It seems rather otherworldly in more ways than one.”

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

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440. “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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441. “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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442. “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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443. “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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444. “There have been times I’ve felt so much art in my soul I grew sick of artists.”

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

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446. “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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447. “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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448. “The last thing Scripture should do is make you blind in the world. Instead, you hear everything, see everything, and feel everything because everything just so happens to point right back to it.”

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449. “Christians sometimes make themselves into elephants afraid of mice. You have the Creator of the universe on your side; not to mention, you’ve been given eternal life. ‘Whom or what shall you fear?’ To be afraid of anything other than God himself is like an insult to God.”

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450. “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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