Criss Jami Quotes

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

Don't change your mind just because people are offended; change your mind if you're wrong.

Labeled fools to the world are geniuses to the cosmos.

Popular culture is a place where pity is called compassion, flattery is called love, propaganda is called knowledge, tension is called peace, gossip is called news, and auto-tune is called singing.

To be honest, one can only feel glad that so many modern iconoclasts consider Christianity to be full of exceptionally hypocritical, religious zealots - it's biblically accurate and a prophecy fulfilled. The old smoke screen is one of Satan's favorite tricks. He conceals the authentic. He has a persistent strategy of targeting those who remind him of Christianity because he fears those who remind him of Christ.

There's nothing more contagious than the laughter of young children; it doesn't even have to matter what they're laughing about.

Simplicity is a bliss that makes one comprehend.

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.

If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.

Confidence is like a dragon where, for every head cut off, two more heads grow back.

When you have wit of your own, it's a pleasure to credit other people for theirs.

I will never deny that life isn't fair. It seems as though when a woman leaves a man she is strong and independent, but when a man leaves a woman he is a pig and a jerk.

I'm often painted as the bad guy, and the artistic part of me wants to hand out the brush.

What is a genius? A person who demands little to nothing from others, but is often found extremely difficult to have around.

Everyone has a sense of humor. If you don't laugh at jokes, you probably laugh at opinions

...There are also those who inadvertently grant power to another man's words by continuously trying to spite him. If a man gets to the point where he can simply say, 'The sky is blue,' and people indignantly rush up trying to refute him saying, 'No, the sky is light blue,' then, whether they realize it or not, he has become an authority figure even to such adversaries.

The writer's curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored.

To be acceptable is for one to ignore his weakness while knowing his strength, to cover the scar even though it's always there, however, to be impossible is for one to see his weakness as, not an adversary, but the cherry on top of his strength, to rearrange the scar so that it compliments his features.

Of all the major religions, or lack thereof, the atheist's is one of the best pretenders: his foundation for all existences, as well as moral behaviors for the permanent good of mankind, begins at science but ends at himself, the Napoleon complex of both intelligence and imagination. On the other hand the anti-theist wouldn't survive without a deity beyond himself to hunt. He doesn't pretend, he simply nullifies his own position.

Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism.

A young outcast will often feel that there is something wrong with himself, but as he gets older, grows more confident in who he is, he will adapt, he will begin to feel that there is something wrong with everyone else.

To believe in the truth of Christ is to be introduced to another form of hatred, and that is not sharing Him.

You get hit the hardest when trying to run or hide from a problem. Like the defense on a football field, putting all focus on evading only one defender is asking to be blindsided.

I often find that people confuse inner peace with some sense of insensibility whenever something goes wrong. In such cases inner peace is a permit for destruction: The unyielding optimist will pretend that the forest is not burning either because he is too lazy or too afraid to go and put the fire out.

To be heroic is to be courageous enough to die for something.

A fear of weakness only strengthens weakness.

Psychobabble attempts to redefine the entire English language just to make a correct statement incorrect. Psychology is the study of why someone would try to do this.

Love begets wisdom, thus it is, as often misconceived, more than vain layers of tenderness; it is inherently rational and comprehensive of the problem within the problem: for instance, envy is one of the most excused sins in the media of political correctness. Those you find most attractive, or seem to have it all, are often some of the most insecure at heart, and that is because people assume that they do not need anything but defamation.

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

Grudges are for those who insist that they are owed something; forgiveness, however, is for those who are substantial enough to move on