Criss Jami Quotes

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To share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable; to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength.

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Seemingly minor yet persistent things penetrate the mind over time making it difficult to ever realize the impact; hence, though quite unfortunate, the most dangerous forms of corruption are those that are subtle and below the radar.

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It often seems as though the silent, humble servant is secretly wiser and more discerning than the haughty master; yet through dutiful (and sometimes insecure) surrender he continues to serve and carry out petty orders in loyal acquiesce.

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Christianity, like genius, is one of the hardest concepts to forgive. We hear what we want to hear and accept what we want to accept, for the most part, simply because there is nothing more offensive than feeling like you have to re-evaluate your own train of thought and purpose in life. You have to die to an extent in your hunger for faith, for wisdom, and quite frankly, most people aren't ready to die.

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Every job from the heart is, ultimately, of equal value. The nurse injects the syringe; the writer slides the pen; the farmer plows the dirt; the comedian draws the laughter. Monetary income is the perfect deceiver of a man's true worth.

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Beyond all sciences, philosophies, theologies, and histories, a child's relentless inquiry is truly all it takes to remind us that we don't know as much as we think we know.

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The apologist is most entrusted with apologetics when capable of arguing his opponent's position better than his opponent.

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The crazy creatives are the creatives who never go completely mad. They aren't so easily disheartened by the seemingly endless amounts of scrutiny that creative individuals tend to receive because they, like insanity, are the ones who feed off of opposition and negative feedback and manage to continue along with a healthy ambition. It is the crazy that teaches us to use our gifts wisely and own all the attackers.

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When everyone believes they are the life coaches, who are the players?

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The role of genius is not to complicate the simple, but to simplify the complicated.

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Great philosophers become immortal - they make undeniable impacts on culture.

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These days when Christians bicker they exaggerate passion into a legalistic belief and prosperity into a lukewarm belief.

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There's sometimes a tugging feeling you get to push further when you aren't being challenged enough or when things get too comfortable.

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Never rebel for the sake of rebelling, but always rebel for the sake of truth.

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Oftentimes in a society when people of a certain type, whether individual or a group, are subconsciously portrayed by the media as abnormal, they also slowly, subconsciously become enemies of that society due to feelings of cultural guilt. Ultimately by this the inflated media is an enemy of its very own cause.

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A number of our scientists boast intelligence but lack wisdom. I find those to be the predictable ones.

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In the philosophical dialect, a cynic takes an insult as a compliment since opposition is already his style.

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I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation.

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The real test of love is loving those who we feel are the hardest ones to love.

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Credentials are like potential energy, the compliments of a name on paper, in documents, word of mouth, but faith is like kinetic energy, the motion and the force that which is witnessed. Hence in the end it is the faith rather than the credentials that really takes you places.

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The harder you fall, the heavier your heart; the heavier your heart, the stronger you climb; the stronger you climb, the higher your pedestal.

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I would rather a romantic relationship turn into contempt than turn into apathy. The passion in the extremities make it appear as though it once meant something. We grow from hot or cold, but lukewarm is the biggest insult.

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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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Everything at some point has been declared the root of all evil.

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Gloating is a superficial glowing, floating is an idle flowing, and bloatedness is the paralysis of blowing up; because silent movement results in loud victories.

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Good works is giving to the poor and the helpless, but divine works is showing them their worth to the One who matters.

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Every man has a specific skill, whether it is discovered or not, that more readily and naturally comes to him than it would to another, and his own should be sought and polished. He excels best in his niche - originality loses its authenticity in one's efforts to obtain originality.

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

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Doubt is a question mark; faith is an exclamation point. The most compelling, believable, realistic stories have included them both.

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I'd rather strive for the kind of interview where instead of me asking to introduce myself to society, society asks me to introduce myself to society.

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