1,131 Quotes by Criss Jami

Tolerance is not infinite patience, but slain patience; patience that has lost its hope and love and has thrown in the towel.

Pride has quite a bit to do with hatred. In many a case in which one hates another, one subconsciously begins patterns of cherry-picking and selective hearing: he continues to look only for things about the other person which he can use to justify his hatred, things which will then make him feel less guilty about hating someone. In this regard, hatred is not so much an emotion as it is a decision.

We must not allow our pride to be the motivation behind our apologetics; rather, philoverity, the love of truth must be the full and complete motivation. For pride corrupts truth.

To believe in the truth of Christ is to be introduced to another form of hatred, and that is not sharing Him.

Good intentions but bad results; bad results but lessons learned. There is a dark corner on every task beautiful and a beautiful corner on every task dark.

The most important part of discernment is pinpointing the forces to be reckoned with, both the constructive and destructive.

I am not convinced of the argument, 'I want to believe; it is only those awful Christians I hate. They get in the way of my belief.' If you hate Christians more than you love Christ, you do not love Christ. It comes to mind the question, 'If you do not love your brother or sister whom you have seen, how can you love God whom you have not seen?

That most pleasant weather to feel is the one never felt.

The apologist is most entrusted with apologetics when capable of arguing his opponent's position better than his opponent.