1,131 Quotes by Criss Jami

Ultimate prosperity is one’s value within. It takes a man of depth, morality, and charm to be envied yet without a sign of wealth or romance. A passion to prove such inner worth is his permission to achieve whatever he desires.

There have been times I’ve felt so much art in my soul I grew sick of artists.

It’s much easier on the emotions when one sees life as an experiment rather than a struggle for popularity.

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

It takes a courageous fool to say things that have not been said and to do things that have not been done.

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.

One’s suffering, one’s melancholy is, in itself, really only looked upon as failure or as punishment, as detestable or sinful or socially unacceptable in the eyes of man; but this is not so in the eyes of God: for He is close to the broken-hearted.

God’s relationship with man does not work in a way in which man stumbles and then God has to drop what he is doing in order to lift him up; rather, man stumbles so that God can lift him up. Hence it is utterly impossible to truly diminish his glory.

I’m never proud of my old work. I always feel as though my skills have since improved.