Quotes from Criss Jami, Killosophy

We are to give (and take) true love without falling into the narcissistic habit of only trying to take it in.

Christians walk as strangers in the world: They are untamed. They are free. To persevere with love, yet untamed by man, is often what leaves that open space for divine revelation when God so wills.

If you're capable of despising your own behavior, you might just love yourself.

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

Ingredients to success: know what you do well, know what to do well, and know someone who's swell.

People love answers, but only as long as they are the ones who came up with them.

A pure heart does not demean the spirit of an individual, it, instead, compels the individual to examine his spirit.

What good is there in being blind, you ask? Well, maybe it's to see the beauty on the inside without being vainly distracted, or superficially blinded, by the ugly on the outside.

We are to love God most importantly so that we can grow to love people as he loved us, not so that we can feel more divine and worthy than the worldly.

I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation.

Of course, in our train of thought, we would all like to think we're on the right track, or at least the same railroad company as the right track.

A writer is one who communicates ideas and emotions people want to communicate but aren't quite sure how, or even if, they should communicate them.

I always make sure that the world will prove me right. It gives me the freedom to contradict myself.

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.

What further helps to reveal reality is when our personal thinking ceases to take reality for granted.

After awhile you realize that putting your actions where your mouth is makes you less likely to have to put your money where your mouth is.

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

Beware: open-mindedness will often say, 'Everything is permissible except a sharp opinion.

The reality of loving God is loving him like he's a Superhero who actually saved you from stuff rather than a Santa Claus who merely gave you some stuff.

Love is one of those topics that plenty of people try to write about but not enough try to do.

The idea that all souls are mortal is the only notion surely terminating love and all its forms.

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.

We have better relationships with those who truly seek us rather than those sitting on the couch watching us move mountains trying to prove ourselves.

Love may be harder to find in some people, but when they do love you know it must be something marvelous.