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1. "...There are also those who inadvertently grant power to another man's words by continuously trying to spite him. If a man gets to the point where he can simply say, 'The sky is blue,' and people indignantly rush up trying to refute him saying, 'No, the sky is light blue,' then, whether they realize it or not, he has become an authority figure even to such adversaries." ~ Criss Jami
2. "Ask anyone and they'll most likely say their family is crazy, and if they don't say their family is crazy, their friends are crazy. That's because everyone is crazy after taking the mask off. People are most themselves when not really trying to fit in, when either alone or around those already closest to them, and that is crazy." ~ Criss Jami
3. "In learning and argumentation, the quality brain is similar to a facility of maximum security. What passes the logic test, free of fallacy and pretense, then must pass the test of biblical accuracy in order to proceed as an adopted, reliable truth." ~ Criss Jami
4. "Some virtues, when they become fashions, also become exaggerated. Just because nobody likes a judgmental attitude does not mean that there isn't a sort of spoiled, self-righteous hypocrisy when one man obsessively commands other men not to judge without knowing the circumstances without himself, too, knowing their circumstances behind their judgments." ~ Criss Jami
5. "Thoughts are like burning stars, and ideas, they flood, they stretch the universe." ~ Criss Jami
6. "God is our final say in who and what's negative and who and what's positive in our lives. It is best not to have this so over-simplified as the illusioned superstitionists have it; an infinite being's tests may not always be so flowery, and the things we may see as positive are in many cases simply desires of our sinful nature. We are to protect our spirit without falling into the narcissistic mistake of trying to protect our selfish emotions, which the latter, in turn, is more than unlikely to bring peace and happiness. But rather guilt and emptiness. When one walks around constantly, in his mind, attempting to separate positive versus negative people, he is already controlled by something even worse than those he calls the 'negative people', and that is before he spots it soon enough to avoid it as he hypocritically tries to avoid them." ~ Criss Jami
7. "As followers of Christ, we are to be careful not to remain victims of the many cultural presuppositions of who he is, and what he teaches, insofar as taking for granted our own caricatures of him. Let it boil in both mind and heart the question, 'If Jesus were to appear today, how many of us would actually recognize him and his teachings (or would it simply be a recount of his first visit)?" ~ Criss Jami
8. "Whenever I think of something but can't think of what it was I was thinking of, I can't stop thinking until I think I'm thinking of it again. I think I think too much." ~ Criss Jami
9. "With a philosophy education, one can infuriate his peers, intimidate his date, think of obscure, unreliable ways to make money, and never regret a thing." ~ Criss Jami
10. "To seek greatness is the only righteous vengeance." ~ Criss Jami
11. "The eye of true equality often seems to have some degree of disrespect for the supposedly accomplished, privileged high and lofty to the supposedly accomplished, privileged high and lofty, although in reality, it's simply irrespectiveness." ~ Criss Jami
12. "Never rebel for the sake of rebelling, but always rebel for the sake of truth." ~ Criss Jami
13. "In some cases, I am able to respect what so many call bigots. Such people have a more solid foundation for drawing their lines when it comes to the security of their ways and quite possibly the security of mankind. They rely on something that has worked to get man this far without placing ideals blindly driven by emotion first; they have a sure line and they say, 'No.' That, in a sense, is something I find to be highly respectable." ~ Criss Jami
14. "Generally, there is a lot of truth value in stepping back, observing, then logically generalizing the extremes of what you see." ~ Criss Jami
15. "Oftentimes in a society when people of a certain type, whether individual or a group, are subconsciously portrayed by the media as abnormal, they also slowly, subconsciously become enemies of that society due to feelings of cultural guilt. Ultimately by this the inflated media is an enemy of its very own cause." ~ Criss Jami
16. "As a writer of philosophy, it's good to ask oneself, 'Will I still believe this a week from now, or months, or even years?" ~ Criss Jami
17. "Liberalism, contrary to popular belief, is facing backward in considering the injustice of its ancestors. Conservatism, contrary to popular belief, is facing forward in considering the psychology of its descendants. Definitively, it seems in the modern world that neither side really knows which direction it's facing, and men of the sharpest judgment are simply turned off from picking either of the poisons." ~ Criss Jami
18. "A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains." ~ Criss Jami
19. "I write about adversity, I praise adversity, not to be pessimistic, but rather to strengthen myself. The more familiar that you are with it, the less likely you are to have a breakdown when it occurs. You become more reflective of its purpose, you understand God's reason for it, and are then able to make the best of everything that you are handed. The darkness is only frightening after constant sunshine." ~ Criss Jami
20. "Cleverness isn't always true nor is the truth always clever." ~ Criss Jami
21. "Love tames the benumbed beast. A man is put to use regarding a woman's physical safety, but a woman is put to use regarding a man's mental safety." ~ Criss Jami
22. "Confidence turns into pride only when you are in denial of your mistakes." ~ Criss Jami
23. "Those who stand for different causes during different generations often experience the same oppositions and the same difficulties as those of the previous and the next generations. That is the basis of history repeating itself." ~ Criss Jami
24. "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." ~ Criss Jami
25. "Love may be harder to find in some people, but when they do love you know it must be something marvelous." ~ Criss Jami
26. "Christianity, like genius, is one of the hardest concepts to forgive. We hear what we want to hear and accept what we want to accept, for the most part, simply because there is nothing more offensive than feeling like you have to re-evaluate your own train of thought and purpose in life. You have to die to an extent in your hunger for faith, for wisdom, and quite frankly, most people aren't ready to die." ~ Criss Jami
27. "Simplicity is a bliss that makes one comprehend." ~ Criss Jami
28. "It is never just disagreement but always intellectual dishonesty that is the apologist's worst enemy. And its apprentice is ignorance." ~ Criss Jami
29. "Oftentimes winning can become an addiction, whether good or bad, to the point where you would rather lose it all before you lose at all." ~ Criss Jami
30. "Love is without a doubt the laziest theory for the meaning of life, but when it actually comes a time to do it we find just enough energy to over-complicate life again. Any devil can love, whom he himself sees as, a good person who has treated him well, but to love also the polar opposite is what separates love from fickle emotions." ~ Criss Jami
31. "In the end, only God can see the heart of an individual and distinguish the difference between legalistic deadweight and the passion of holy solemnity." ~ Criss Jami
32. "I don't pretend to know everything; I just only speak on matters I know I'll win." ~ Criss Jami
33. "The manlier you are, the harder it is to understand what a woman wants: there is not a hint of female brain in you." ~ Criss Jami
34. "I often ask myself, 'Who would Jesus vote for?' Then I start to think that he wouldn't vote at all; however, it would not be out of apathy or disinterest, but out of perfection and light. As a miracle worker, I think he would, by the power of God's teachings, the perseverance and the truth, influence in a modern sense whoever is put into office how to best serve his fellow men. One, like his skeptics, may find that impractical. But there is a message in that no man in power can slow the momentum of the will of God, and the miracles of his teachings will be forever victorious." ~ Criss Jami
35. "A pure heart does not demean the spirit of an individual, it, instead, compels the individual to examine his spirit." ~ Criss Jami
36. "You have to lift a person up before you can really put them in their place." ~ Criss Jami
37. "God speaks of his children shining best in ways that only he can provide. The heavens lift one as a golden child while the flesh lowers one to a child with gold." ~ Criss Jami
38. "These days when Christians bicker they exaggerate passion into a legalistic belief and prosperity into a lukewarm belief." ~ Criss Jami
39. "Vivid simplicity is the articulation, the nature of genius. Wisdom is greater than intelligence; intelligence is greater than philosobabble." ~ Criss Jami
40. "True rebels hate their own rebellion. They know by experience that it is not a cool and glamorous lifestyle; it takes a courageous fool to say things that have not been said and to do things that have not been done." ~ Criss Jami
41. "It is a noble responsibility to not back down when you know that you know that you know that you are right." ~ Criss Jami
42. "To ask, 'How do you do it?' is already starting off on the wrong foot. When reaching for the stars, there does not have to be a 'how' if there is a big enough 'why'." ~ Criss Jami
43. "Great minds think alike because a greater Mind is thinking through them." ~ Criss Jami
44. "To be honest, one can only feel glad that so many modern iconoclasts consider Christianity to be full of exceptionally hypocritical, religious zealots - it's biblically accurate and a prophecy fulfilled. The old smoke screen is one of Satan's favorite tricks. He conceals the authentic. He has a persistent strategy of targeting those who remind him of Christianity because he fears those who remind him of Christ." ~ Criss Jami
45. "The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people." ~ Criss Jami
46. "The humble ones are always learning and improving, and their secret is always that it's a secret." ~ Criss Jami
47. "Feel what it's like to truly starve, and I guarantee that you'll forever think twice before wasting food." ~ Criss Jami
48. "When we look for success, it should be for the sole purpose of boasting sincerely in Christ. There's no other reason for it. Success is only worth it when the more intense it gets for you, the more you find yourself bragging for his glory rather than your own." ~ Criss Jami
49. "The exaggerated dopamine sensitivity of the introvert leads one to believe that when in public, introverts, regardless of its validity, often feel to be the center of (unwanted) attention hence rarely craving attention. Extroverts, on the other hand, seem to never get enough attention. So on the flip side it seems as though the introvert is in a sense very external and the extrovert is in a sense very internal - the introvert constantly feels too much 'outerness' while the extrovert doesn't feel enough 'outerness'." ~ Criss Jami
50. "Everyone pretends to be 'free thinkers', but few individuals pass the line into expressive territories that may be detrimental to their own social well-being." ~ Criss Jami
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