Quotes from Criss Jami, Healology

Be willing to give, but only when you aren't expecting anything in return.

If only we were all better educated. If then, higher education would at last be a journey for skill and knowledge rather than for power and status.

Unsettling are the days in which everyone is an expert.

There is this common notion that people are shallow and ignorant until they go out and see the world. I, on the other hand, went out and in comparison realized I was in pretty good standing.

I treat my thoughts like an old person treats their valuables: I cannot for the life of me proceed to throwing them out.

After each of his books, the writer, for a while, feels once again that he can now die happy.

What men classify as living is often but the discontentment of making oneself itch just to enjoy the scratch.

There is nothing new under the sun but that of the Son. Man's rebellion against God has always been because he would rather fall in pride than rise in humility.

Trustful people are the pure at heart, as they are moved by the zeal of their own trustworthiness.

I enjoy poetry where I can talk as bizarre as I please, but theology or philosophy, I always respect the truth by taking it a step further.

The hope is indeed that some will experience and believe: The purpose of a number of spiritual gurus is to demonstrate to God-fearing men faux spirituality.

Even when the truth is in fact simple, simplicity is still relative.

Some of the simplest of truths are also some of the most difficult of truths, but such is Christianity: 'If it's not about Christ, it's not about life.

Question like a child, reason like an adult, and write like a sage.

Every exceptional bias against Christianity I find to be evidence for its validity.

A man who loves others based solely on how they make him feel, or what they do for him, is really not loving others at all - but loving only himself.

You can receive all the compliments in the world, but that won't do a thing unless you believe it yourself.

So, how close are love and genius, really? We know that they are both mentioned far more than lived.

Confirmation bias is the most effective way to go on living a lie.

Look for the person everyone hates, and love them.

Whether you try too hard to fit in or you try too hard to stand out, it is of equal consequence: you exhaust your significance.

A prophet is always underestimated, and part of what makes one a prophet is that he doesn't really mind it.

Still, one can be honest yet quite mistaken.

Naturally, I always place my word over anyone else's simply because I know why I said what I said.