1,131 Quotes by Criss Jami

People don’t care about being duped as long as they’re happy, which is the shortest form of happiness; hence ‘self-duprication’ becomes a habit.

Beware: open-mindedness will often say, ‘Everything is permissible except a sharp opinion.’

For the believer, humility is honesty about one’s greatest flaws to a degree in which he fearless about truly appearing less righteous than another.

Some of the simplest of truths are also some of the most difficult of truths, but such is Christianity: ‘If it’s not about Christ, it’s not about life.

What man is really anti-progressive? For he is only anti-certain-people’s-visions-for-the-future.

The first ingredient to being wrong is to claim that you are right.

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

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.

I believe God himself will someday debate with and answer every objection arrogant men can come up with against him; I believe he will humble us and humor himself. Know-it-alls, pseudo-intellectuals, militant anti-theists, for Christ’s sake, or rather their own sake, best beware of getting roasted by their own medicine. Ah! Our delusions of trying to argue against an omniscient Creator.