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Criss Jami Quotes - Page 7

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I don't pretend to know everything; I just only speak on matters I know I'll win.

I don't pretend to know everything; I just only speak on matters I know I'll win.

Winning, Matter, Speak

Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.39, Criss Jami

I believe in evolution in the sense that a short-tempered man is the successor of a crybaby.

Patience, Believe, Men

Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.96, Criss Jami

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

Would Be, World, Worthy

Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.102, Criss Jami

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.

Children, Philosophy, Thinking

Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.39, Criss Jami

Thoughts are like burning stars, and ideas, they flood, they stretch the universe.

Stars, Ideas, Burning

Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.72, 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.

Looks, Taught, Philosopher

Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.84, Criss Jami

It has always seemed that a fear of judgment is the mark of guilt and the burden of insecurity.

Judgement, Insecurity, Guilt

Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.129, Criss Jami

When most of the greatest individuals in history were misunderstood and you've spent so much of your own adult life misunderstood, you can't help but believe that the majority of people know very little worth knowing.

Believe, Knowing, People

Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.39, Criss Jami

Christians walk as strangers in the world: They are untamed. They are free. To persevere with love, yet untamed by man, is often what leaves that open space for divine revelation when God so wills.

Christian, Men, Space

Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.71, Criss Jami

The height of cleverness is in one's ability to be very clever without seeming clever at all.

Clever, Height, Ability

Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.1, Criss Jami

It's easy to make a mess when you're not the one who has to clean it up.

Easy, Clean, Mess

Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.12, 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.

Unconditional Love, Helping Others, Giving

Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.104, Criss Jami

Wise men are not pacifists; they are merely less likely to jump up and retaliate against their antagonizers. They know that needless antagonizers are virtually already insecure enough.

Wise, Patience, Insecure

Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.92, Criss Jami

I have a thing for things that last.

Lasts

Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.2, Criss Jami

Feel what it's like to truly starve, and I guarantee that you'll forever think twice before wasting food.

Blessed, Blessing, Thinking

Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.52, Criss Jami

As a writer of philosophy, it's good to ask oneself, 'Will I still believe this a week from now, or months, or even years?'

Philosophy, Believe, Years

Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.78, Criss Jami

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.

Media, People, Feelings

Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.79, Criss Jami

Time and time again does the pride of man influence his very own fall. While denying it, one gradually starts to believe that he is the authority, or that he possesses great moral dominion over others, yet it is spiritually unwarranted. By that point he loses steam; in result, he falsely begins trying to prove that unwarranted dominion by seizing the role of a condemner.

Believe, Fall, Pride

Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.125, Criss Jami

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.

God, Father, Heart

Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.90, Criss Jami

You think you're losing your mind, but do keep in mind, as long as you may, that the ability to go on thinking such a thing means it's not all gone.

Mean, Thinking, Long

Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.3, Criss Jami

If life is music, I sometimes feel as though I was born on the off-beat of the song, and I love it. As Christian numbers reportedly decrease in America, my love for Christ feels as though it increases. I must be honest about such strange feelings: I now want to be thought unfaithful about as much as a bougie aristocrat wants to be thought a hobo.

Christian, Song, Numbers

The common man prays, 'I want a cookie right now!' And God responds, 'If you'd listen to what I say, tomorrow it will bring you 100 cookies.

Patience, Men, Cookies

Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.61, Criss Jami

The ones who constantly make us laugh are the hardest of friends to know - for comedians are the caricatures among us.

Laughing, Comedian, Hardest

Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.3, Criss Jami

Music is not my life. My life is music.

Life Is, Music Is

Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.3, Criss Jami

The sea in all its vastness is its own, real world. Man is nature's sci-fi.

Real, Men, Sea

Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.2, Criss Jami

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