Quotes from Criss Jami, Healology

Angels are good not simply because they see bad as bad, but also because they see bad as corny.

To be intuitive is to possess a godly characteristic: to be bad at second-guessing the good.

Be careful not to appear obsessively intellectual. When intelligence fills up, it overflows a parody.

Speaking a painful truth should be done only in love - like wielding a sword with no hilt - it should pain oneself in direct proportion to the amount of force exerted.

Good friends will allow you to be as innocent and free as a child when in private, and as wise and mature as an adult when in public.

Silence might be a shout for the truth. It might be the speech that someday, in its truest, most uncontaminated, unadulterated state, all will be revealed.

God wants us to humbly and sincerely ask him things. How often do you enjoy people talking about you without taking the time to get to know you?

Goodness is sparked by a caution for the sake of what is good, not a fear of what is bad.

The evangelist is the world's hopeless romantic, and just like a hopeless romantic, he must hope for the miracle of God more than the romance itself.

Trying to be offensive for the sole purpose of being offensive should always deem one the least offensive of offenders.

There have been times I've felt so much art in my soul I grew sick of artists.

This is almost always the case: A piece of art receives its f(r)ame when found offensive.

Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live.

You wander. You work nearly every job known to man, it seems, only to arrive at the wonderings of philosophy.

Without Christ a people may always have the freedom to do, but never the power to complete.

On athleticism, God knows no favor. It seems rather he is in the business of teaching winners how to lose and losers how to win.

Mankind, in all his lusts, punishes himself. The gods have to do very little.

I appreciate a book intended to be judged by its cover. The insincere readers are often weeded out while the sincere readers remain curious.

If Christians always seemed to be the most intelligent and the most righteous of men, I'd be a skeptic.

One may suffer the long-term in order to grow in appreciation for the small things. For in short-term suffering, one only notices the large.

People, generally, are equally insecure. They just show it (or hide it) differently.

Controversy is a last resort for the talentless.

Unprovoked hostility is often but displaced self-defense: 'I must stop him before he stops me.' In many of such environments, nobody is really hateful so much as they are just fearful.