Criss Jami
We first become salesmen as children in the confession booths of our parents.Collection: Children
I am not sure if women are attracted to genius. Can you imagine the wise wizard winning the woman over the gallant swordsman? It seems rather otherworldly in more ways than one.Collection: Wise
Thunderstorms are as much our friends as the sunshine.Collection: Sunshine
At first, they'll only dislike what you say, but the more correct you start sounding the more they'll dislike you.Collection: Firsts
Love begets wisdom, thus it is, as often misconceived, more than vain layers of tenderness; it is inherently rational and comprehensive of the problem within the problem: for instance, envy is one of the most excused sins in the media of political correctness. Those you find most attractive, or seem to have it all, are often some of the most insecure at heart, and that is because people assume that they do not need anything but defamation.Collection: Heart
Humility is, in a sense, admitting how egotistical you are.Collection: Humility
We tend to think that refusing to exalt Christ is staying true to our self-will and personal freedom when really we are condemning ourselves. Sure, we can pretend to stay true to ourselves, but if you want to talk about reality, all of that is completely trivial if this life is an island and He's the only pilot with a plane and a flight plan.Collection: Reality
Great artists are a little too gifted to be bound by boxes and labels, and in saying that, the label 'artist' is to be used lightly.Collection: Artist
The only thing more frustrating than slanderers is those foolish enough to listen to them.Collection: Funny
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.Collection: Spiritual
I am a fan of overdoing something, but not running it into the ground. They are complete opposites with only a fine line separating them.Collection: Running
There's more to logic than identifying logical fallacies.Collection: Logic
Anger's like a battery that leaks acid right out of me And it starts from the heart til it reaches my outer meCollection: Anger
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. The latter moves the nature of godliness from the King to our servant to a slave, a deduction into the realm of selfhood and then the lower, slavehood. It's a spiritual mathematics in that men who need God in his godhood are humble yet strong and spiritually ambitious while men who need a slave in their selfhood are ultimately paralyzed and will remain paralyzed.Collection: Spiritual
God gives His deepest discernment and sharpest marksmanship to men who aim to expose His truth before an enemy's lies.Collection: Lying
Creative people are often found either disagreeable or intimidating by mediocrities.Collection: People
Just as some people may conceal their own sinfulness thus seeming better than the norm, others expose their own sinfulness thus seeming worse than the norm.Collection: People
Senses of humor define people, as factions, deeper rooted than religious or political opinions. When carrying out everyday tasks, opinions are rather easy to set aside, but those whom a person shares a sense of humor with are his closest friends. They are always there to make the biggest influence.Collection: Best Friend
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.Collection: Love Is
The most judgmental people are often those who complain most about being judged. The ones not complaining will look as though they're the ones doing the judging.Collection: People
If Christ be a fraud, he was among the most peculiar yet brilliant of frauds in saying that only he was the way, the truth, and the life. This is the importance of grace - some people think that simply being nice and not harming others is morality; others think that following rules and tithing are morality. But without Christ, all moral beliefs ultimately boil down to the one sin which perpetually rails against the concept of grace: man's lawful, religious, and futile attempt at establishing his own righteousness.Collection: Religious
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.Collection: God
Trustful people are the pure at heart, as they are moved by the zeal of their own trustworthiness.Collection: Heart
I think that I am too warm to negatively judge individuals, yet I am cold enough to negatively judge humanity.Collection: Thinking
When a man has a gift in speaking the truth, brute aggression is no longer his security blanket for approval. He, on the contrary, spends most of his energy trying to tone it down because his very nature is already offensive enough.Collection: Men
How is it that some celebrities, whom the average person would believe to have all the popularity a human being could want, still admit to feeling lonely? It is quite naive to assume that popularity is the remedy for loneliness. Loneliness does not necessarily equal physical solitude, it is the inability to be oneself and rightfully represented as oneself.Collection: Lonely
I cannot encourage any fabrication even for the sake of making people feel good. If I were to fabricate consciously and knowingly, I would not only be ordaining myself their enemy, but also ordaining myself God's enemy.Collection: People
It is the philosophers, theologians, and evangelists who are said to be filled with pride and bigotry due to the strong convictions that they represent. On the contrary, teachings can be either taken or dismissed; whereas voting is the only thing the average person can do to force everyone to live how they would prefer. A simple vote is among the largest yet most acceptable forms of bigotry, and that is because people play the card only when they feel that in doing so it conveniences themselves.Collection: Strong
God's relationship with man does not work in a way in which man stumbles and then God has to drop what he is doing in order to lift him up; rather, man stumbles so that God can lift him up. Hence it is utterly impossible to truly diminish his glory.Collection: Men
After awhile you realize that putting your actions where your mouth is makes you less likely to have to put your money where your mouth is.Collection: Mouths
I would rather have strong enemies than a world of passive individualists. In a world of passive individualists nothing seems worth anything simply because nobody stands for anything. That world has no convictions, no victories, no unions, no heroism, no absolutes, no heartbeat. That world has rigor mortis.Collection: Strong
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.Collection: Men
Everyone claims to be okay with freedom of religion, but the moment you mention God there is a strange tension that fills the air. If there was a 6th sense, that would be it.Collection: Air
There is such a thing as righteous judgment, but it seems that lately the word 'judgment' has become a curse word, period. The issue isn't whether or not we're insightful enough to avoid being judgmental, but whether or not we're secure enough to accept being judged. It is inevitable for every conscious human being to judge. It may spring from insight and experience and sincerity, and in such cases, it is quite beneficial on the receiving end.Collection: Spring
A lack of common sense usually ends in some heroic feat, much like the soldier who dives onto the grenade so that others may live.Collection: Common Sense
A solid answer to everything is not necessary. Blurry concepts influence one to focus, but postulated clarity influences arrogance.Collection: Focus
A number of our scientists boast intelligence but lack wisdom. I find those to be the predictable ones.Collection: Numbers
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.Collection: Men
Love may be harder to find in some people, but when they do love you know it must be something marvelous.Collection: True Love
A distaste for the new is not always fear of the unknown, but sometimes ambition. Some people don't like the new way simply because they never got a chance to master the old way.Collection: Ambition
You can receive all the compliments in the world, but that won't do a thing unless you believe it yourself.Collection: Believe
Easily mistaken, it is not about a love for adversity, it is about knowing a strength and a faith so great that adversity, in all its adverse manifestations, hardly even exists.Collection: Adversity
Like most arts, the link between the mind and the pen can chain you like an enslaved workaholic. Even on an intended vacation you suddenly have this killer urge to record whatever the vacation may teach.Collection: Art
I always make sure that the world will prove me right. It gives me the freedom to contradict myself.Collection: Giving
In the philosophical dialect, a cynic takes an insult as a compliment since opposition is already his style.Collection: Philosophical
Whenever we want to combat our enemies, first and foremost we must start by understanding them rather than exaggerating their motives.Collection: Fighting
Wisdom is nothing more than confirmed imagination: just because one did not study for his exam does not mean that he should leave it blank.Collection: Mean
Cleverness isn't always true nor is the truth always cleverCollection: Clever
When it comes to world news, attitude is what marks the distinction between justice and vengeance. Justice is pure, but vengeance brings more ruin.Collection: Attitude