1,131 Quotes by Criss Jami

Being nice merely to be liked in return nullifies the point.

You can't let the truth bring out the worst and let it get the best of you.

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

Who you are in public is a test of your conviction; who you are in private, integrity.

Just as some people may conceal their own sinfulness thus seeming better than the norm, others expose their own sinfulness thus seeming worse than the norm.

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

The pride of man hopes but to blame God for the evils of the world, and to praise himself for the good.

Heroic ambition seemed to have been the cause of much of the world's pain then - quite like it is now. No villain ever saw himself a villain: he only saw himself a hero; and this goes just as no hero ever saw himself a hero: he simply did what he had to do. No true hero initially sets out with intentions of being deemed a hero.

Treat people like people. Beware of pity and patronization because in them, you can't see when you're unashamedly looking down on someone.