Quotes from Criss Jami

If ever you feel like an animal among men be a lion.

The way of the consumerist culture is to spend so much energy chasing happiness that it has none left to be happy.

Their doubt is your fuel for dreams. You just have to drive.

I am not convinced within myself that to its core and as a whole, humanity has, as some like to assume, progressed a great deal over the millennia. Human technology? Of course. Human beings? Hardly.

God writes love and speaks poetry.

It is in the nature of man to want what he does not have. This modern concern for happiness seems a real testimony of its absence.

Wise men are not pacifists; they are merely less likely to jump up and retaliate against their antagonizers. They know that needless antagonizers are virtually already insecure enough.

Any coward can be a peacekeeper! In fact, that comes to one naturally. But they are blessed, the peacemakers...and all those who know the difference.

In their minds, it seems as though people don't often have the same answers, but in their hearts, they do very frequently have the same questions.

Listen to God with a broken heart. He is not only the doctor who mends it, but also the father who wipes away the tears.

Faith, in its most correct form, never removes responsibility; it removes fear of responsibility. The results are complete opposites with the greater saying, 'God's will is my delight.'

Everyone has a natural slant towards seeking themselves. This gets in the way of seeking God unless God intervenes.

Sure, some of us humans might be angry at a sovereign God about Hell, but know that that is about as meaningful as a few germs being angry at humans about bleach.

To fear man's judgment more than God's judgment is to fear man more than God.

To be respected is not my concern. So long as I seek to live in obedience to my Lord, respect will come accordingly from the people He deems it necessary.

To understand even remotely the holy omnipotence of God is to understand at least from mostly to wholly the magnificence of Christ.

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.

People don't care about being duped as long as they're happy, which is the shortest form of happiness; hence 'self-duprication' becomes a habit.

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

It is sometimes but the mere hope for enjoyment that allows one to enjoy something, even when he is not really enjoying it at the moment.

Assuming what people want is about as controlled as using fireworks to start a fire.

Plot twist: everything goes exactly as planned.

Seeing the glass as half empty is more positive than seeing it as half full. Through such a lens the only choice is to pour more. That is righteous pessimism

Never marry when under the guise you need to 'see if it'll work', but rather marry because in your mind you want to make it work.