Quotes from Criss Jami

The 2 extremes, neither one worse than the other: the result of bad religion is self-loathing and violence; the result of bad spirituality is self-worship and narcissism.

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

To share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable; to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength.

Tell me that the purpose of life is to have fun, and without a care in the world I'll begin wreaking havoc on everything I pass. Now that's what I call pure, honest fun.

...And maybe one day you will wake up as an infant in a completely different universe, and your entire life thus far was just one big dream.

When we find that God's ways always coincide with our own ways, it's time to question who we're really worshipping, God or ourselves.

There is a certain delightful sort of hope which the introvert can receive only by having company over...the hope that they will leave soon.

You might be an introvert if you were ready to go home before you left the house.

If your doctrine changed for the better yet your character changed for the worse, you changed for the worse.

If beauty is relative, then any and everything when compared to the beauty of God is absolutely hideous.

The hype cheapens the hyped, as right things are then made wrong by exaggeration.

If we all knew who God really was and what he really wanted for each and every one of us, we would all know that only a fool could really deny him.

God's judgment is not like man's judgment. It is not a suspension of His Love but an extension of His Love. His justice is always righteous, so His judgment is always Love.

Rebuke without love is abuse. But, a love that would never rebuke? I dare to admit that that, too, would be a kind of abuse.

Life is about discovering things worth dying for.

Do not tell someone you are hungry if, whenever they feed you, you do not eat.

We live in an age so legalistic, we find it hard to imagine someone wanting to obey their Lord simply because they love their God.

One is not necessarily made self-centered because he is foolish, but one is very often made foolish because he is self-centered.

The Christian God seemed the most offensive to people precisely because he was the most godlike. He was too perfect even to be coaxed by human efforts, and therefore sent his son to do the job.

Christ commands his people to love their enemies, because if not, that would rule out pretty much the entire world.

Growing up I sometimes imagined that for Christ's return perhaps He would appear as 'Black Jesus' to white people and 'White Jesus' to black people just to screw with the racists.

People will seek the ends of the galaxy to avoid that which they need most.

That which you love most will then become both your strength and your weakness.

Best to live and love by the maxim that 'silence in the face of evil is evil itself', but when it's evil fighting evil, let evil kill itself.