1,131 Quotes by Criss Jami

To be acceptable is for one to ignore his weakness while knowing his strength, to cover the scar even though it's always there, however, to be impossible is for one to see his weakness as, not an adversary, but the cherry on top of his strength, to rearrange the scar so that it compliments his features.

To respect a mystery is to make way for the answer.

People, generally, are equally insecure. They just show it (or hide it) differently.

Truth is not fully explosive, but purely electric. You don't blow the world up with the truth; you shock it into motion.

The greater ignorance towards a country is not ignoring what its politicians have to say, it is ignoring what the inmates in its prisons have to say.

Society tells me to follow my own truth, but I don't let society tell me what to do. If you need someone to tell you that, chances are you're part of the crowd that will move on to the next fashion that comes around.

However true or not they may be to us, the trouble with all those tired, platitudinous, hackneyed mantras, which go along the lines of 'Christianity is not a religion, but a relationship,' is that many of us use them not as cries to embrace the grace of God but rather as licenses and/or excuses to celebrate sin. Make way for our beloved and ready, willing and able Christ to clean up your life already.

Never rebel for the sake of rebelling, but always rebel for the sake of truth.

The best of fiction, as we know, of course, doesn't tell the truth; it tales the truth.