“Find a purpose to serve, not a lifestyle to live.”
— Criss Jami“Good works is giving to the poor and the helpless, but divine works is showing them their worth to the One who matters.”
— Criss Jami“To be heroic is to be courageous enough to die for something; to be inspirational is to be crazy enough to live a little.”
— Criss Jami“Telling an introvert to go to a party is like telling a saint to go to Hell.”
— Criss Jami“Whenever I think of something but can't think of what it was I was thinking of, I can't stop thinking until I think I'm thinking of it again. I think I think too much.”
— Criss Jami“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.”
— Criss Jami“There's more to logic than identifying logical fallacies.”
— Criss Jami“It's not about whether or not someone is a bigot, but whether or not the argument which that someone is arguing is worth being a bigot about.”
— Criss Jami“Some concepts are so incredibly risky they take an honest fool to try to articulate them.”
— Criss Jami“It is never ridicule, but a compliment, that knocks a philosopher off his feet. He is already positioned for every possible counter-attack, counter-argument, and retort...only to find a big bear hug coming his way.”
— Criss Jami“I only seem negative to the fortunate. That's because I show the less fortunate that they aren't less fortunate after all.”
— Criss Jami“Love is as simple as the absence of self given to another. God, when invited, fills the void of any unrequited love; hence loving is how one is drawn closer to God no matter its most horrific repercussions.”
— Criss Jami“A lonely day is God's way of saying that he wants to spend some quality time with you.”
— Criss Jami“Faith, in its most correct form, never removes responsibility; it removes fear of responsibility. The results are complete opposites with the greater saying, 'God's will is my delight.”
— Criss Jami“People will seek the ends of the galaxy to avoid that which they need most.”
— Criss Jami“When you find that a theology has nothing more to offer than what the world already offers, then that theology as a theology is impractical, and therefore, useless.”
— Criss Jami“God tests, but he does not tempt.”
— Criss Jami“Disasters work like alarm clocks to the world, hence God allows them. They are shouting, 'Wake up! Love! Pray!”
— Criss Jami“One of the greatest gifts from God is the eternal perspective. It is a level of fearlessness, a level of understanding where one can experience even emotional harmony with God.”
— Criss Jami“Everyone claims to be okay with freedom of religion, but the moment you mention God there is a strange tension that fills the air. If there was a 6th sense, that would be it.”
— Criss Jami“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.”
— Criss Jami“Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths.”
— Criss Jami“Friends ask you questions; enemies question you.”
— Criss Jami“A sign of a lover of wisdom is his delight in not running his mouth about things he doesn't know.”
— Criss Jami“In God's eyes, a man who teaches one truth and nothing else is more righteous than a man who teaches a million truths and one lie.”
— Criss Jami“All knowledge meets an end at the question '...Why?”
— Criss Jami“Learning isn't acquiring knowledge so much as it is trimming information that has already been acquired.”
— Criss Jami“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.”
— Criss Jami“People love answers, but only as long as they are the ones who came up with them.”
— Criss Jami“The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is the pretense of intelligent ignorance. The former is teachable; the latter is not.”
— Criss Jami“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.”
— Criss Jami“Together, we form a necessary paradox; not a senseless contradiction.”
— Criss Jami“Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.”
— Criss Jami“The best ideas will eat at you for days, maybe even weeks, until something, some incident, some impulse, triggers you to finally express them.”
— Criss Jami“There have been times I've felt so much art in my soul I grew sick of artists.”
— Criss Jami