1,131 Quotes by Criss Jami

By far, the hardest part regarding a work of art, apart from the start, is knowing precisely when to stop...It's growing up, finding that most glowing and top spot, ascending to where its highest peak is reached...before descending for the deepest, darkest drop.

If you're waiting until you feel talented enough to make it, you'll never make it.

An exceedingly confident student would in theory make a terrible student. Why would he take school seriously when he feels that he can outwit his teachers?

Whether you try too hard to fit in or you try too hard to stand out, it is of equal consequence: you exhaust your significance.

I would hope not to be like the artist who has to depend on the naivety of his audience for applause.

Good works is giving to the poor and the helpless, but divine works is showing them their worth to the One who matters.

To me, many of what seemed to be Bible contradictions only pointed to the grace of Christ. It is not so much a rule book on how to be holy as it is a prophecy of the One who can make you holy. In this, I see God as the least bigoted of all in existence: While men always, in their hearts, delight in vengeance for being wronged, God is the only Being who wants to free you from the penalty of His own laws.

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.

Women show men beauty in things beyond their ambitions. Women tell men to stop and smell the roses.