Criss Jami Quotes - Page 4

A mature heart for Christ would much rather spend its time praising him than condemning his fanatics.
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To me, many of what seemed to be Bible contradictions only pointed to the grace of Christ. It is not so much a rule book on how to be holy as it is a prophecy of the One who can make you holy. In this, I see God as the least bigoted of all in existence: While men always, in their hearts, delight in vengeance for being wronged, God is the only Being who wants to free you from the penalty of His own laws.
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God hates sin not because he wants us to be good little boys and girls, but because he knows sin destroys that which he loves most: sinners.
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There is not one harsher, more sure-fire way to fail than that of the man who tries to be like Jesus without submitting to Jesus.
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If I do not love my fellow man, I can be sure of it that I do not love Jesus Christ. And I would do well if guilty of loving Jesus Christ even more than I love my fellow man, because only by this may I fully come to love my fellow man.
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Love in this life is expanded by our anticipation of the next life. Those who love under God are never satisfied with small love, or love bound by the flaws of human emotion. Those who love under God dream of another life where they can experience it and live it in God's perfect form, so they seek to build it in this life as much as possible.
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I think that there are excellent and poor thinking habits just as there are healthy and unhealthy eating habits; and when a man really knows how to think, you cannot necessarily assert that he thinks too much in a strictly negative connotation. Perhaps this is in a sense food for thought, whereas the other is fool for thought.
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Wherever there is abuse there is also corruption. Politics, philosophy, theology, science, industry, any field with the potential to affect the well-being of others can be destroyed by abuse and saved by good will.
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In a sense, discouragement does not have to exist. Allow it to be rather the encouragement to honestly reconsider all the options, then, as necessary, shine on.
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I've finally decided to write about profit for a changeBut before I really started I already started to feel lameBaby what's it to a beast who manely to money remains untamed
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There are no keys to success - only tools.
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Simply minding one's own business is more offensive than being intrusive. Without ever saying a word one can make a person feel less-than.
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To reach only for that which pleasantly enchants you is the least of imagination, if even imagination at all, by the obvious reality of remaining within your means. The greater of imagination is parallel to risk. It extends beyond your comfort zone or haven, or sense of beauty, or what you personally believe suits you in exploration of what may not.
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Growing up I often wondered how the world would be today if, since the beginning of human life, every person acted as I did.
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Lead's erasing then vanishingBanished from whatever it is they're drinking and it's cleanedRunning from the pitcher as if it's her fantasy
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Let what offends God offend me, and what God pardons, I pardon.
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A man does not have to feel less than human to realize his sin; oppositely, he has to realize that he gets no special vindication for his sin.
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Hypocrisy versus authenticity among men is not always so black and white, and as is righteousness, humility is often self-proclaimed. The Church is most definitely supposed to be a hospital for the spiritually, emotionally, mentally, and physically sick, hurting, and broken individual, yet ironically, many of its critics are those who ran away and permanently denounced its members after they visited and felt that they were sneezed on.
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Love is without a doubt the laziest theory for the meaning of life, but when it actually comes a time to do it we find just enough energy to over-complicate life again. Any devil can love, whom he himself sees as, a good person who has treated him well, but to love also the polar opposite is what separates love from fickle emotions.
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Christianity is at its purest a philosophy about a person, Jesus Christ, and at its dirtiest a philosophy about requirements and law.
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Do not tell someone you are hungry if, whenever they feed you, you do not eat.
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To love without need or without expectation of restitution, that is how we ought to love.
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The apologist is most entrusted with apologetics when capable of arguing his opponent's position better than his opponent.
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Even the richest of brands are robbed by poor character.
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Ingredients to success: know what you do well, know what to do well, and know someone who's swell.
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I am not here to merely argue about the perplexities regarding theism or philosophy, but to be a light to the world and to reach out to those who long to be a part of that light.
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To the short-sighted, through the fog, God must be a monster.
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The whole bloated sensation of success is wiped clean when among family. There is no pressure of being looked upon as 'the brilliant one' but rather the comforts of always being the pupil.
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The surface of learning is hearing what your ears aren't prepared to hear, and the core of learning is hearing what your ears don't want to hear.
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Of course we'll win. And even if we were to lose, we'd win at losing.
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It is better to doubt that a concept is stupidly flying under your head than profoundly flying over your head.
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Peculiar I say, how so often the smallest, most seemingly insignificant details later unveil their faces as vital means for progression.
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While there may be various tips, pointers, ingredients, and strategies to success, there is no one formula that always guarantees it other than to keep learning from failure itself.
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As for those who spite you, and seemingly just because, it's only evident that they're learning from you. Maybe you taste bad - kind of like medicine, kind of like truth - and to them, you're thought unsafe. There is flattery in being chewed out and spit up. Humans have always had a hard time digesting foreign things.
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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.
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Life is about discovering things worth dying for.
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I'm starting to think that my level of intrigue outweighs my fear of controversy.
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The humble ones are always learning and improving, and their secret is always that it's a secret.
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There's a difference between thinking you can't be wrong and having no regrets. Wrongness is what occurs prior to empiricism, in hindsight a counterpart of revelation, and revelation is nothing to regret.
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With too much pride a man cannot learn a thing. In and of itself, learning teaches you how foolish you are.
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An exceedingly confident student would in theory make a terrible student. Why would he take school seriously when he feels that he can outwit his teachers?
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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?
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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.
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Worldly religion is that which replaces Faith with mere wishful thinking. One must not make the common mistake of putting his faith in all the things he thinks God ought to bless him with; he should instead keep his faith planted in God Himself. Present to Him his needs and wants like a child to his Father, but have faith only in His wisdom and goodness like a servant to his King. God must always be one's Everything before He is one's token to everything.
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In some cases, I am able to respect what so many call bigots. Such people have a more solid foundation for drawing their lines when it comes to the security of their ways and quite possibly the security of mankind. They rely on something that has worked to get man this far without placing ideals blindly driven by emotion first; they have a sure line and they say, 'No.' That, in a sense, is something I find to be highly respectable.
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In learning and argumentation, the quality brain is similar to a facility of maximum security. What passes the logic test, free of fallacy and pretense, then must pass the test of biblical accuracy in order to proceed as an adopted, reliable truth.
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A major gap between many of the denominations stems from how people define some of the most basic terms, such as 'religion' itself.
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To believe in the truth of Christ is to be introduced to another form of hatred, and that is not sharing Him.
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People think that fun in Christ is non-existent, but there is fun wherever your heart lives.
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I believe God himself will someday debate with and answer every objection arrogant men can come up with against him; I believe he will humble us and humor himself. Know-it-alls, pseudo-intellectuals, militant anti-theists, for Christ's sake, or rather their own sake, best beware of getting roasted by their own medicine. Ah! Our delusions of trying to argue against an omniscient Creator.
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Naturally, I always place my word over anyone else's simply because I know why I said what I said.
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You can receive all the compliments in the world, but that won't do a thing unless you believe it yourself.
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I once began to ask around what constitutes a good poem. It felt petty, in a sense. A boy would need no help in deciding which girls he thinks are pretty.
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Still, one can be honest yet quite mistaken.
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I pity the man who praises God only when things go his way.
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You are believing not in your god but in yourself if your god knows no better than you do...and yet, in this alone, I am afraid, you have already been fooling yourself.
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I am not convinced of the argument, 'I want to believe; it is only those awful Christians I hate. They get in the way of my belief.' If you hate Christians more than you love Christ, you do not love Christ. It comes to mind the question, 'If you do not love your brother or sister whom you have seen, how can you love God whom you have not seen?
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Many of us are literally prone to believing the most blatantly nonsensical untruths. There are some opinions and some beliefs so incredibly moronic, you actually feel stupid for not believing them; and it's probably because in giving the benefit of the doubt you self-doubt, you convince yourself into lame passivity and blind acceptance, you tell yourself, 'Maybe I'm just missing something here.
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What man is really anti-progressive? For he is only anti-certain-people's-visions-for-the-future.
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A prophet is always underestimated, and part of what makes one a prophet is that he doesn't really mind it.
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