Criss Jami Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. A man of the world understands the world, but a man of God understands life. For in their purest of forms, the one comes through perhaps that application of human knowledge, but the other comes through that of a proper and divine wisdom.

2. A rumor is a social cancer: it is difficult to contain and it rots the brains of the masses. However, the real danger is that so many people find rumors enjoyable. That part causes the infection. And in such cases when a rumor is only partially made of truth, it is difficult to pinpoint exactly where the information may have gone wrong. It is passed on and on until some brave soul questions its validity; that brave soul refuses to bite the apple and let the apple eat him. Forced to start from scratch for the sake of purity and truth, that brave soul, figuratively speaking, fully amputates the information in order to protect his personal judgment. In other words, his ignorance is to be valued more than the lie believed to be true. Killosophy

3. A sign of a lover of wisdom is his delight in not running his mouth about things he doesn't know. Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality

4. A writer is one who communicates ideas and emotions people want to communicate but aren't quite sure how, or even if, they should communicate them. Killosophy

5. After awhile you realize that putting your actions where your mouth is makes you less likely to have to put your money where your mouth is. Killosophy

6. All knowledge meets an end at the question '...Why? Healology

7. All things remarkable are surprisingly simple; albeit difficult to find. Healology

8. 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? Killosophy

9. As a young Christian, what I asked was that Christians did and said things in such a way that made people not want to do and say the opposite.

10. As Aristotle said, 'Excellence is a habit.' I would say furthermore that excellence is made constant through the feeling that comes right after one has completed a work which he himself finds undeniably awe-inspiring. He only wants to relax until he's ready to renew such a feeling all over again because to him, all else has become absolutely trivial. Killosophy

11. As followers of Christ, we are to be careful not to remain victims of the many cultural presuppositions of who he is, and what he teaches, insofar as taking for granted our own caricatures of him. Let it boil in both mind and heart the question, 'If Jesus were to appear today, how many of us would actually recognize him and his teachings (or would it simply be a recount of his first visit)? Killosophy

12. As for those who spite you, and seemingly just because, it's only evident that they're learning from you. Maybe you taste bad - kind of like medicine, kind of like truth - and to them, you're thought unsafe. There is flattery in being chewed out and spit up. Humans have always had a hard time digesting foreign things. Healology

13. At first, they'll only dislike what you say, but the more correct you start sounding the more they'll dislike you. Killosophy

14. Bad luck with women is a determined man's road to success. For every affliction, he makes, out of indignation, yet another advancement in order to exceed the man that the woman chose over him. This goes to show that great men are made great because they once learned how to fight the feeling of rejection. Venus in Arms

15. Beware: open-mindedness will often say, 'Everything is permissible except a sharp opinion. Killosophy

16. 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. Killosophy

17. Cleverness isn't always true nor is the truth always clever. Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality

18. Constantly stopping to explain oneself may expand into a frustrating burden for the rare individual, so ceasing to do so is like finally dropping the weights and sprinting towards his goals. Those who insincerely misunderstand, who intentionally distort the motives of a pure-intentioned individual, then, no longer have the opportunity to block his path; instead, they are the ones left to stand on the sidelines shouting frustratedly in the wind of his trail. Killosophy

19. Contentment seems almost a happiness happier than happy because it's happy without reason. I for one am a shamefully happy person - a person so happy that he doesn't long for company when he doesn't have it.

20. Deceit for personal gain is one of history's most recurring crimes. Man's first step towards change would be thinking, counter-arguing, re-thinking, twisting, straightening, perfecting, then believing every original idea he intends to make public before making it public. There is always an angle from which an absolute truth may appear askew just as there is always a personal emotion, or a personal agenda, which alienates the ultimate good of mankind. Killosophy

21. Don't change your mind just because people are offended; change your mind if you're wrong. Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality

22. Easily mistaken, it is not about a love for adversity, it is about knowing a strength and a faith so great that adversity, in all its adverse manifestations, hardly even exists. Killosophy

23. 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. Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile

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

25. Find a purpose to serve, not a lifestyle to live. Venus in Arms

26. Friends ask you questions; enemies question you. Healology

27. Friends ask you questions; enemies question you. Healology

28. 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. Killosophy

29. God favors men and women who delight in being made worthy of happiness before the happiness itself. Killosophy

30. God judges men from the inside out; men judge men from the outside in. Perhaps to God, an extreme mental patient is doing quite well in going a month without murder, for he fought his chemical imbalance and succeeded; oppositely, perhaps the healthy, able and stable man who has never murdered in his life yet went a lifetime consciously, willingly never loving anyone but himself may then be subject to harsher judgment than the extreme mental patient. It might be so that God will stand for the weak and question the strong. Healology