Criss Jami Quotes

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

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

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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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Those who stand for different causes during different generations often experience the same oppositions and the same difficulties as those of the previous and the next generations. That is the basis of history repeating itself.

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Pride and power fall when the person falls, but discoveries of truth form legacies that can be built upon for generations.

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

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God gives His deepest discernment and sharpest marksmanship to men who aim to expose His truth before an enemy's lies.

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

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

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

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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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The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people.

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If the entire world sought to make itself worthy of happiness rather than make itself happy, then the entire world would be happy.

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Liberalism, contrary to popular belief, is facing backward in considering the injustice of its ancestors. Conservatism, contrary to popular belief, is facing forward in considering the psychology of its descendants. Definitively, it seems in the modern world that neither side really knows which direction it's facing, and men of the sharpest judgment are simply turned off from picking either of the poisons.

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Listen to God with a broken heart. He is not only the doctor who mends it, but also the father who wipes away the tears.

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Divinity for the sake of the simple-minded is beautiful. Those theological assertions you write, say, or live by that you later feel foolish about, it means God still lives in you enough to tell you that they were indeed foolish. By mistakes you know you are alive.

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A good work ethic is not so much a concern for hard work but rather one for responsibility. There have been a great many men and women who have in fact used work or hustle or selfish ambition as an escape from real responsibility, an escape from purpose. In matters such as these, the hard worker is just as dysfunctional as the sloth.

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Some concepts are so incredibly risky they take an honest fool to try to articulate them.

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When you're the only sane person, you look like the only insane person.

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

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If it's true what is said, that only the wise discover the wise, then it must also be true that the lone wolf symbolizes either the biggest fool on the planet or the biggest Einstein on the planet.

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In a society where dirt sells, for every good story told as it is, you will hear the whole of that day's 10 bad stories sensationalized; although in reality, it could be that 100 good deeds happened that day which went unsung.

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