Criss Jami
You maintain hope for humanity as an infinite skeptic of gossip and slander. In all mankind's desires for entertainment and exaggeration and sensationalism, when it comes to gossip, the individual always sounds worse than he really is. This is why adhering to gossip subtly affects the mental state of the listener - he goes on holding shady opinions regardless of where the realities of their lights and darknesses may stand.Collection: Reality
Competition works best in sports, but humans get addicted to stuff.Collection: Sports
If life is music, I sometimes feel as though I was born on the off-beat of the song, and I love it. As Christian numbers reportedly decrease in America, my love for Christ feels as though it increases. I must be honest about such strange feelings: I now want to be thought unfaithful about as much as a bougie aristocrat wants to be thought a hobo.Collection: Christian
You think you're losing your mind, but do keep in mind, as long as you may, that the ability to go on thinking such a thing means it's not all gone.Collection: Mean
I have a thing for things that last.Collection: Lasts
Whatever thing a man gets quickly enraged about is his idol, and whatever thing he makes his idol becomes his religion.Collection: Men
Wise men are not pacifists; they are merely less likely to jump up and retaliate against their antagonizers. They know that needless antagonizers are virtually already insecure enough.Collection: Wise
The unteachable man is sentenced to being taught only by experience. The tragedy is he reaches nothing further than his own pain.Collection: Pain
Some things are so silly they have a certain brilliance to them. Other things, set as standards for brilliance and therefore exalted by many who don't know why, become tarnished because of it.Collection: Silly
A part of me genuinely wanted to be the worst because I was so sick of everyone fighting to be the best.Collection: Fighting
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.Collection: Fun
Most men either compromise or drop their greatest talents and start running after, what they perceive to be, a more reasonable success, and somewhere in between they end up with a discontented settlement. Safety is indeed stability, but it is not progression.Collection: Running
What further helps to reveal reality is when our personal thinking ceases to take reality for granted.Collection: Reality
Ingredients to success: know what you do well, know what to do well, and know someone who's swell.Collection: Ingredients
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.Collection: Ears
In societies where coolness and being cool is a top priority, the religious replace the word 'religious' with 'spiritual' to make their faiths seem less extreme.Collection: Spiritual
The love of Christ is always there and unchanging, no matter what we do, but it is when we are obedient that we actually begin to feel it.Collection: Matter
If you want to find the real competition, just look in the mirror. After awhile you'll see your rivals scrambling for second place.Collection: Real
Old words are reborn with new faces.Collection: Faces
Whenever I think of something but can't think of what it was I was thinking of, I can't stop thinking until I think I'm thinking of it again. I think I think too much.Collection: Thinking
I would rather a romantic relationship turn into contempt than turn into apathy. The passion in the extremities make it appear as though it once meant something. We grow from hot or cold, but lukewarm is the biggest insult.Collection: Passion
Good intentions but bad results; bad results but lessons learned. There is a dark corner on every task beautiful and a beautiful corner on every task dark.Collection: Beautiful
Like crying wolf, if you keep looking for sympathy as a justification for your actions, you will someday be left standing alone when you really need help.Collection: Sympathy
A pure heart does not demean the spirit of an individual, it, instead, compels the individual to examine his spirit.Collection: Heart
A writer is one who communicates ideas and emotions people want to communicate but aren't quite sure how, or even if, they should communicate them.Collection: Ideas
I am thankful when I am hungry because then I know that when I eat, the food will taste better. Life has taught me that my true contentment rests in hope, and the pleasure itself is secondary. It is self-awareness, not happiness, that maintains peace.Collection: Self
Disasters work like alarm clocks to the world, hence God allows them. They are shouting, 'Wake up! Love! Pray!Collection: Alarms
Never rebel for the sake of rebelling, but always rebel for the sake of truth.Collection: Rebel
I find it a challenge to cooperate in a society where it's considered moral to critique a résumé yet immoral to critique morality.Collection: Challenges
I appreciate a book intended to be judged by its cover. The insincere readers are often weeded out while the sincere readers remain curious.Collection: Book
Liberalism, contrary to popular belief, is facing backward in considering the injustice of its ancestors. Conservatism, contrary to popular belief, is facing forward in considering the psychology of its descendants. Definitively, it seems in the modern world that neither side really knows which direction it's facing, and men of the sharpest judgment are simply turned off from picking either of the poisons.Collection: Men
God favors men and women who delight in being made worthy of happiness before the happiness itself.Collection: Men
I'm convinced that most men don't know what they believe, rather, they only know what they wish to believe. How many people blame God for man's atrocities, but wouldn't dream of imprisoning a mother for her son's crime?Collection: Mother
When focusing only on one's credentials one boasts his own incompetence in his capacity for discernment of the individual.Collection: Individual
The spirit of arrogance most definitely makes you shine. It paints a bright red target on your own forehead.Collection: Shining
To say that one waits a lifetime for his soulmate to come around is a paradox. People eventually get sick of waiting, take a chance on someone, and by the art of commitment become soulmates, which takes a lifetime to perfect.Collection: Love
The theistic philosopher has a tendency to devalue insufficient worldviews, ideologies, and quite often common sense for the greater good, and in such cases, one should not be discouraged when seen as a bad guy. If he stresses over man's perception of a righteous heart, then he has given his heart to man.Collection: Stress
Man has 2 common problems with God: the one is that there is evil in the world; the other is that free will is limited. The one, he is charging that the world is too evil; the other is that it is not evil enough.Collection: Men
Everyone has their own ways of expression. I believe we all have a lot to say, but finding ways to say it is more than half the battle.Collection: Believe
The best ideas will eat at you for days, maybe even weeks, until something, some incident, some impulse, triggers you to finally express them.Collection: Ideas
A common mistake we make is that we look for God in places where we ourselves wish to find him, yet even in the physical reality this is a complete failure. For example, if you lost your car keys, you would not search where you want to search, you would search where you must in order to find them.Collection: Mistake
I often ask myself, 'Who would Jesus vote for?' Then I start to think that he wouldn't vote at all; however, it would not be out of apathy or disinterest, but out of perfection and light. As a miracle worker, I think he would, by the power of God's teachings, the perseverance and the truth, influence in a modern sense whoever is put into office how to best serve his fellow men. One, like his skeptics, may find that impractical. But there is a message in that no man in power can slow the momentum of the will of God, and the miracles of his teachings will be forever victorious.Collection: Perseverance
When you aren't satisfied with what has already been done, make something better. That is the greatest responsibility and the true freedom of creativity. The freedom is in that it doesn't need to complain.Collection: Creativity
I would rather be an artist than a leader. Ironically, a leader has to follow the rules.Collection: Artist
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.Collection: Hurt
The greater ignorance towards a country is not ignoring what its politicians have to say, it is ignoring what the inmates in its prisons have to say.Collection: Country
The devil's happy when the critics run you off.Collection: Running
Everyone has a sense of humor. If you don't laugh at jokes, you probably laugh at opinionsCollection: Stupid
Yes, be different, but not for the vanities of being different.Collection: Vanity