The man who is most aggressive in teaching tolerance is the most intolerant of all: he wants a world full of people too timid and ashamed to really disagree with anything.


Criss Jami

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

Of all religions, Christianity is without a doubt the one that should inspire tolerance most, althou...
VOLTAIRE
Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christian...
VOLTAIRE
Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C.
I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS
At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still...
CLARENCE DARROW
At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still...
CLARENCE DARROW
At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he stil...
CLARENCE DARROW
At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still...
RODNEY DANGERFIELD
It is the people who scream the loudest about America and Freedom who see to be the most intolerant ...
ROSANNE CASH
At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still...
RODNEY DANGERFIELD
The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone
HENRIK IBSEN
'The Sea Wolf' is the story of a man who believes only in brute force. He is so firm in beli...
IDA LUPINO
The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
An inventor is a man who looks upon the world and is not contented with things as they are. He wants...
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL
She buys "mixed salad greens" for seven dollars a bag, triple-washed with who knows what. And to get...
RUDOLPH DELSON
He believes, but he does not believe: the impossibility of believing is the impossibility which he a...
EDMUND WILSON
Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM
It's all of those people and most notably Chris is part of it, too, because he was who my Superman w...
BRANDON ROUTH
We're not ashamed of our bodies, ... This event is the most important thing in the world.
TREY PARKER
Most people perceive moderates as timid middle-of-the-roaders who can't take a stand.
RICK BAYAN
Most people know intuitively that when you fall in love, the world is full of magic. What they don't...
PHYLLIS CUROTT
A real man wants two things: danger and play. Therefore he wants woman as the most dangerous playthi...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
It's ironic really, that the man who hates the world is most loved by it
ANNA TODD
“An average man is too concerned with liking people or with being liked himself. A warrior likes, ...
CARLOS CASTANEDA
The fear of God is the only cure for the fear of people.
CRAIG GROESCHEL
The greatest tragedy is when man gives up what he wants most for what he wants now!
UNKNOWN
Yooralla, like most disability service organisations, is full of good people who are passionate abou...
STELLA YOUNG
The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a...
JEANETTE CORON
The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU
You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ...
C. JOYBELL C.
A liberal is a man who is right most of the time, but he's right too soon.
GREGORY NUNN
A liberal is a man who is right most of the time, but he's right too soon
GREGORY NUNN
Junior is a man who works full time as a volunteer for the community, ... He is kind, compassionate,...
GEORGE FERGUSON
Either there are lots of really bad tenants, or the landlord is really aggressive and wants to get p...
JOE LAMPORT
Read in the name of your Lord Who created. He created man from a clot.Read and your Lord is Most Hon...
ANONYMOUS
People try to say suicide is the most cowardly act a man could ever commit. I don't think that's tru...
TOMMY TRAN
A person who is not ashamed will do whatever he wants.
VIKRANT PARSAI
And two, boys in this culture, and in all cultures all around the world, one of the most humbling th...
MARTHA BURK
His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
TEKOA MANNING
What is the vanity of the vainest man compared with the vanity which the most modest possesses when,...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
You know, we'd just had a birthday, he was... you know, he still had a future out of him, and all I ...
ROBIN GIBB
The politician is the poorest man in the world, the most empty man, the most hollow—stuffed with s...
OSHO
It's the same with all women who work. Every woman has too much to do -- that's common in all parts ...
CRISTINA COMENCINI
If Romeo can do 'Dancing with the Stars,' anything is possible.
ROMEO MILLER
The secret of my success is my hairspray.
RICHARD GERE
Love is blind, and a deaf-mute too.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS
The proper study of Man is anything but Man; and the most improper job of any man, even saints (who ...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
Hatred is not what Las Vegas is about, ... We will have zero tolerance for anyone who is intolerant.
OSCAR GOODMAN
The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
B. C. FORBES
The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.
SAMUEL JOHNSON
To investigate the history of man's development, the most important finds are, of course, homini...
RICHARD LEAKEY
A man is most happy when he is most perfect, and he is most perfect when all his faculties are propo...
JOSEPH P. BRADLEY
You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because al...
LENIN (VLADIMIR ULYANOV)
Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man's imagination, and that he cann...
MARQUIS DE SADE
I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too ...
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too ...
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
For most of my life I had operated under a simple schematic of winning and losing, but cancer was te...
LANCE ARMSTRONG
The art of teaching is tolerance. Humbleness is the art of learning.
B.K.S. IYENGAR
It is the central bank governor, unlike other regulators or government secretaries, who has command ...
RAGHURAM RAJAN
He's a man who... well, one of the great things about Shakespeare is that his characters are inc...
JEREMY IRONS
I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib...
C. JOYBELL C.
No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires mo...
JEREMY TAYLOR
Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patie...
ISAAC ASIMOV
The world is full of people who think different is synonymous with wrong.
DAVID LEVITHAN
The teaching of tolerance is well intended. But to truthfully address and adequately depreciate prej...
JONATHAN CHEN
The worthiest man to be known, and for a pattern to be presented to the world, he is the man of whom...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
A man who has understood the girl's feelings and emotions; female's likings and love; lady's needs a...
ANUJ SOMANY
In the hands of a passive-aggressive person who wants to abdicate responsibility for things, texting...
MALLORY ORTBERG
Man,His world & His dreams;When a man is placed aright in his world,he is most likely going to dream...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good, too.
YOGI BERRA
With self-discipline most anything is possible.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Most people think computers when they think technology. We fight that all the time and what people p...
BEN YATES
A man can do anything he wants to do in this world, at least if he wants to do it badly enough.
E(DWARD) W(YLLIS) SCRIPPS
There could be a room full of toys and all he wants is the candles.
MELISSA HOWELL
A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a fr...
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI
You know, we'd just had a birthday, he was... you know, he still had a future out of him, and al...
ROBIN GIBB
Tolerance isn't about not having beliefs. It's about how your beliefs lead you to treat people who d...
TIMOTHY J. KELLER
You release the pain of the past and press on. It's a new day, and God is doing a new thing. He want...
CRAIG GROESCHEL
The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a...
NEIL GAIMAN
Now he is a statesman, when what he really wants is to be what most reporters are, adult delinquents...
PEGGY NOONAN
People have the illusion that all over the world, all the time, all kinds of fantastic things are ha...
DAVID BRINKLEY
North Eurasia is one of the best examples of religious tolerance and peaceful coexistence of Islam a...
NURSULTAN NAZARBAYEV
I think my dad is this great, wonderful... man with a lot of integrity, who is fighting for things h...
VANESSA KERRY
The most dangerous man in the world is the contemplative who is guided by nobody. He trusts his own ...
THOMAS MERTON
Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, ...
SAMUEL DANIEL
Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, Most b...
SAMUEL DANIEL
Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, Most b...
SAMUEL DANIEL
Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his po...
MAX WEBER
Emily is one of the most competitive people I have ever coached. She?s a very intense and determined...
BILL MANDIGO
We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. Therefore, everyone sees the world in d...
MUDITHA CHAMPIKA
The U.S. immigration system is the most generous in the world, providing each year more green cards ...
JAN C. TING
He who is most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in performance of it.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU
He is someone that most people can relate to and that makes him very popular with all sorts of peopl...
CHRIS JONES
One of the biggest sicknesses this world has is expectation. We all expect other people to be a cert...
ERIC SHONKWILER
In the beautiful, man sets himself up as the standard of perfection; in select cases he worships him...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Man...is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate ...
PLATO
Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is...
RENé DESCARTES

More Criss Jami

We are to love God most importantly so that we can grow to love people as he loved us, not so that w...
CRISS JAMI
A utopian system, when established by men, is likely to be synonymous with a dystopian depression. T...
CRISS JAMI
All individuals have moral deficiencies, and when introducing these to reality one not only strength...
CRISS JAMI
The pressure of adversity is the most powerful sustainer of accountability. It's as though everythin...
CRISS JAMI
You can't let the truth bring out the worst and let it get the best of you.
CRISS JAMI
I often find that people confuse inner peace with some sense of insensibility whenever something goe...
CRISS JAMI
But what good is the popular opinion, if the lot of us just process like minions?
CRISS JAMI
I never feel unsafe except for when the majority is on my side.
CRISS JAMI
When you're the only sane person, you look like the only insane person.
CRISS JAMI
As individuals die every moment, how insensitive and fabricated a love it is to set aside a day from...
CRISS JAMI
Great minds think alike because a greater Mind is thinking through them.
CRISS JAMI
Old words are reborn with new faces.
CRISS JAMI
If you want to find the real competition, just look in the mirror. After awhile you'll see your riva...
CRISS JAMI
Love is without a doubt the laziest theory for the meaning of life, but when it actually comes a tim...
CRISS JAMI
It is never ridicule, but a compliment, that knocks a philosopher off his feet. He is already positi...
CRISS JAMI
It has always seemed that a fear of judgment is the mark of guilt and the burden of insecurity.
CRISS JAMI
I find it a challenge to cooperate in a society where it's considered moral to critique a résumé y...
CRISS JAMI
When a poet digs himself into a hole, he doesn't climb out. He digs deeper, enjoys the scenery, and ...
CRISS JAMI
Only the man who thinks himself a fool is as wise as he thinks.
CRISS JAMI
If it's true what is said, that only the wise discover the wise, then it must also be true that the ...
CRISS JAMI
Wise men are not pacifists; they are merely less likely to jump up and retaliate against their antag...
CRISS JAMI
When good people consider you the bad guy, you develop a heart to help the bad ones. You actually un...
CRISS JAMI
If truth is like the terrain, are we the generation who sees it as one who has worn shoes all his li...
CRISS JAMI
If you are not there for other people, do not expect them to be there for you. In many a case one mi...
CRISS JAMI
To understand even remotely the holy omnipotence of God is to understand at least from mostly to who...
CRISS JAMI
Sure, some of us humans might be angry at a sovereign God about Hell, but know that that is about as...
CRISS JAMI
Sadly enough, some people are insecure in such a way that they cannot bear the thought of the sovere...
CRISS JAMI
God is not some lesser employee, as many try to make Him out to be: rather He is the ultimate Treasu...
CRISS JAMI
The skeptic says that the believer has lost his own mind under God. On the contrary, it is the peopl...
CRISS JAMI
Of all the major religions, or lack thereof, the atheist's is one of the best pretenders: his founda...
CRISS JAMI
God's relationship with man does not work in a way in which man stumbles and then God has to drop wh...
CRISS JAMI
If I were to believe in God enough to call him a murderer, then I might also believe enough that he,...
CRISS JAMI
Just as some people may conceal their own sinfulness thus seeming better than the norm, others expos...
CRISS JAMI
Who you are in public is a test of your conviction; who you are in private, integrity.
CRISS JAMI
Hypocrisy versus authenticity among men is not always so black and white, and as is righteousness, h...
CRISS JAMI
Always seek justice, but love only mercy. To love justice and hate mercy is but a doorway to more in...
CRISS JAMI
For the believer, humility is honesty about one's greatest flaws to a degree in which he is fearless...
CRISS JAMI
To seek greatness is the only righteous vengeance.
CRISS JAMI
The biggest challenge after success is shutting up about it.
CRISS JAMI
I'm convinced that most men don't know what they believe, rather, they only know what they wish to b...
CRISS JAMI
As Aristotle said, 'Excellence is a habit.' I would say furthermore that excellence is made constant...
CRISS JAMI
The harder you fall, the heavier your heart; the heavier your heart, the stronger you climb; the str...
CRISS JAMI
There was a time when skepticism was an act of rebellion. Since to a degree I both believe in evolut...
CRISS JAMI
A rebel adult often seems like a glorious savior, whereas a rebel child often seems like a little de...
CRISS JAMI
True rebels hate their own rebellion. They know by experience that it is not a cool and glamorous li...
CRISS JAMI
In some countries, the strictly Progressive man reveals himself to be just as much as if not more pr...
CRISS JAMI
Any fool can do something cool and look cool, but it takes skill to make something uncool cool again...
CRISS JAMI
People don't care about being duped as long as they're happy, which is the shortest form of happines...
CRISS JAMI
To say that one waits a lifetime for his soulmate to come around is a paradox. People eventually get...
CRISS JAMI
Together, we form a necessary paradox; not a senseless contradiction.
CRISS JAMI
Anger's like a battery that leaks acid right out of me
And it starts from the heart 'til it rea...
CRISS JAMI
Showing a lack of self-control is in the same vein granting authority to others: 'Perhaps I need som...
CRISS JAMI
Drunken men give some of the best pep talks.
CRISS JAMI
Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.
CRISS JAMI
Telling an introvert to go to a party is like telling a saint to go to Hell.
CRISS JAMI
The reality of loving God is loving him like he's a Superhero who actually saved you from stuff rath...
CRISS JAMI
Trustful people are the pure at heart, as they are moved by the zeal of their own trustworthiness.
CRISS JAMI
Those who live as though God sets the rules are not going by their own rules. That is the self-sacri...
CRISS JAMI
To love without need or without expectation of restitution, that is how we ought to love.
CRISS JAMI
God favors men and women who delight in being made worthy of happiness before the happiness itself.
CRISS JAMI
If the entire world sought to make itself worthy of happiness rather than make itself happy, then th...
CRISS JAMI
Companionship is a foreign concept to some people. They fear it as much as the majority of people fe...
CRISS JAMI
Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane.
CRISS JAMI
Grudges are for those who insist that they are owed something; forgiveness, however, is for those wh...
CRISS JAMI
It's not about going around trying to stir up trouble. As long as you're honest and you articulate w...
CRISS JAMI
Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than ...
CRISS JAMI
Just because something isn't a lie does not mean that it isn't deceptive. A liar knows that he is a ...
CRISS JAMI
When you're truly awesome, you know that it's actually a burden and wish day after day to be relieve...
CRISS JAMI
Listen to God with a broken heart. He is not only the doctor who mends it, but also the father who w...
CRISS JAMI
Don't change your mind just because people are offended; change your mind if you're wrong.
CRISS JAMI
There are two circumstances that lead to arrogance: one is when you're wrong and you can't face it; ...
CRISS JAMI
A sign of power in a man is not only when people follow what he suggests, but also when people make ...
CRISS JAMI
I would rather a romantic relationship turn into contempt than turn into apathy. The passion in the ...
CRISS JAMI
People love answers, but only as long as they are the ones who came up with them.
CRISS JAMI
A common mistake we make is that we look for God in places where we ourselves wish to find him, yet ...
CRISS JAMI
Love does not dwell on how much one receives in return. If there is ever any balance in love, it is ...
CRISS JAMI
Simply minding one's own business is more offensive than being intrusive. Without ever saying a word...
CRISS JAMI
When a man is penalized for honesty he learns to lie.
CRISS JAMI
Man is not, by nature, deserving of all that he wants. When we think that we are automatically entit...
CRISS JAMI
If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beau...
CRISS JAMI
What man ever openly apologizes for slander? It is not so much a feeling of slander as it is that of...
CRISS JAMI
Whenever I think of something but can't think of what it was I was thinking of, I can't stop thinkin...
CRISS JAMI
Everyone has a sense of humor. If you don't laugh at jokes, you probably laugh at opinions.
CRISS JAMI
I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation.
CRISS JAMI
The greater ignorance towards a country is not ignoring what its politicians have to say, it is igno...
CRISS JAMI
When you're socially awkward, you're isolated more than usual, and when you're isolated more than us...
CRISS JAMI
The writer's curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored.
CRISS JAMI
To be heroic is to be courageous enough to die for something; to be inspirational is to be crazy eno...
CRISS JAMI
Love is as simple as the absence of self given to another. God, when invited, fills the void of any ...
CRISS JAMI
A young outcast will often feel that there is something wrong with himself, but as he gets older, gr...
CRISS JAMI
A pure heart does not demean the spirit of an individual, it, instead, compels the individual to exa...
CRISS JAMI
Confidence is like a dragon where, for every head cut off, two more heads grow back.
CRISS JAMI
Senses of humor define people, as factions, deeper rooted than religious or political opinions. When...
CRISS JAMI
God tests, but he does not tempt.
CRISS JAMI
I don't pretend to know everything; I just only speak on matters I know I'll win.
CRISS JAMI
To ask, 'How do you do it?' is already starting off on the wrong foot. When reaching for the stars, ...
CRISS JAMI
If you build the guts to do something, anything, then you better save enough to face the consequence...
CRISS JAMI
To reach only for that which pleasantly enchants you is the least of imagination, if even imaginatio...
CRISS JAMI
With a hint of good judgment, to fear nothing, not failure or suffering or even death, indicates tha...
CRISS JAMI
Like crying wolf, if you keep looking for sympathy as a justification for your actions, you will som...
CRISS JAMI
The ultimate story of success: When a nobody, who has never once in his entire life known the feelin...
CRISS JAMI
When you have wit of your own, it's a pleasure to credit other people for theirs.
CRISS JAMI
Time and time again does the pride of man influence his very own fall. While denying it, one gradual...
CRISS JAMI
Let's not grow with our roots in the ground.
CRISS JAMI
Good works is giving to the poor and the helpless, but divine works is showing them their worth to t...
CRISS JAMI
An over-indulgence of anything, even something as pure as water, can intoxicate.
CRISS JAMI
An exceedingly confident student would in theory make a terrible student. Why would he take school s...
CRISS JAMI
The exaggerated dopamine sensitivity of the introvert leads one to believe that when in public, intr...
CRISS JAMI
A man who goes into a restaurant and blatantly disrespects the servers shows a strong discontent wit...
CRISS JAMI
It's not at all hard to understand a person; it's only hard to listen without bias.
CRISS JAMI
You are evidence of your mother's strength, especially if you are a rebellious knucklehead and regar...
CRISS JAMI
Doubt is a question mark; faith is an exclamation point. The most compelling, believable, realistic ...
CRISS JAMI
If ever you feel like an animal among men, be a lion.
CRISS JAMI
When I look at a person, I see a person - not a rank, not a class, not a title.
CRISS JAMI
Being nice merely to be liked in return nullifies the point.
CRISS JAMI
Man has 2 common problems with God: the one is that there is evil in the world; the other is that fr...
CRISS JAMI
The creation of man is evidence for the love of God, the preservation of man is evidence for the pat...
CRISS JAMI
One may not always know his purpose until his only option is to monopolize in what he truly excels a...
CRISS JAMI
The only thing more frustrating than slanderers is those foolish enough to listen to them.
CRISS JAMI
Many people in a rather reckless context claim to 'just tell it like it is'. In actuality, nobody re...
CRISS JAMI
Tell me that the purpose of life is to have fun, and without a care in the world I'll begin wreaking...
CRISS JAMI
Everyone judges constantly: positively judging one person is the same as negatively judging everyone...
CRISS JAMI
A fear of weakness only strengthens weakness.
CRISS JAMI
Even if there are instances in which it can be mistook by onlookers, never fool yourself into using ...
CRISS JAMI
In order to share one's true brilliance one initially has to risk looking like a fool: genius is lik...
CRISS JAMI
Oftentimes winning can become an addiction, whether good or bad, to the point where you would rather...
CRISS JAMI
It often seems as though the silent, humble servant is secretly wiser and more discerning than the h...
CRISS JAMI
The petty man wants to use God for himself; the ambitious man wants God to use him for God.
CRISS JAMI
I pity the man who praises God only when things go his way.
CRISS JAMI
The hated man is the result of his hater's pride rather than his hater's conscience.
CRISS JAMI
...There are also those who inadvertently grant power to another man's words by continuously trying ...
CRISS JAMI
Friends ask you questions; enemies question you.
CRISS JAMI
When it comes to world news, attitude is what marks the distinction between justice and vengeance. J...
CRISS JAMI
Never rebel for the sake of rebelling, but always rebel for the sake of truth.
CRISS JAMI
An encouraged person will eventually get his drive from encouragement; he becomes more dependent. A ...
CRISS JAMI
I once began to ask around what constitutes a good poem. It felt petty, in a sense. A boy would need...
CRISS JAMI
Armed neutrality makes it much easier to detect hypocrisy.
CRISS JAMI
The logic behind patriotism is a mystery. At least a man who believes that his own family or clan is...
CRISS JAMI
I am not sure if women are attracted to genius. Can you imagine the wise wizard winning the woman ov...
CRISS JAMI
In the age of technology there is constant access to vast amounts of information. The basket overflo...
CRISS JAMI
If you're not a smart worker, it's about how hard you work double the amount from the heart; if you'...
CRISS JAMI
Seemingly minor yet persistent things penetrate the mind over time making it difficult to ever reali...
CRISS JAMI
The artist is often misunderstood because, stepping outside himself and holding most details in grea...
CRISS JAMI
Cleverness isn't always true nor is the truth always clever.
CRISS JAMI
Everything at some point has been declared the root of all evil.
CRISS JAMI
It's easy to make a mess when you're not the one who has to clean it up.
CRISS JAMI
There's nothing more contagious than the laughter of young children; it doesn't even have to matter ...
CRISS JAMI
Of course, in our train of thought, we would all like to think we're on the right track, or at least...
CRISS JAMI
I imagine that the intelligent people are the ones so intelligent that they don't even need or want ...
CRISS JAMI
We are not as some people like to assume nowadays 'just being real' by embracing passively the sinfu...
CRISS JAMI
When emerging from humble beginnings, those around you tend to underestimate your authenticity becau...
CRISS JAMI
I do not care about happiness simply because I believe that joy is something worth fighting for.
CRISS JAMI
I'm often painted as the bad guy, and the artistic part of me wants to hand out the brush.
CRISS JAMI
Great philosophers become immortal - they make undeniable impacts on culture.
CRISS JAMI
It is the philosophers, theologians, and evangelists who are said to be filled with pride and bigotr...
CRISS JAMI
The theistic philosopher has a tendency to devalue insufficient worldviews, ideologies, and quite of...
CRISS JAMI
The hype cheapens the hyped, as right things are then made wrong by exaggeration.
CRISS JAMI
It's simple, it's not that simple; or life is simple, but the things in it are not. When a man does ...
CRISS JAMI
Some of the simplest of truths are also some of the most difficult of truths, but such is Christiani...
CRISS JAMI
The best of fiction, as we know, of course, doesn't tell the truth; it tales the truth.
CRISS JAMI
When we begin to reflect Christ, the Bible, when more understood as being centered around Christ, se...
CRISS JAMI
Never take advice about never taking advice. That is an old vice of men - to dish it out without bei...
CRISS JAMI
How easy it is for so many of us today to be undoubtedly full of information yet fully deprived of a...
CRISS JAMI
Constantly stopping to explain oneself may expand into a frustrating burden for the rare individual,...
CRISS JAMI
Discernment is the son of good judgment and the father of self-control. When mixed with an already c...
CRISS JAMI
The older you get, the more you understand how your conscience works. The biggest and only critic li...
CRISS JAMI
Everyone pretends to be 'free thinkers', but few individuals pass the line into expressive territori...
CRISS JAMI
At first, they'll only dislike what you say, but the more correct you start sounding the more they'l...
CRISS JAMI
There's sometimes a tugging feeling you get to push further when you aren't being challenged enough ...
CRISS JAMI
The ones who constantly make us laugh are the hardest of friends to know - for comedians are the car...
CRISS JAMI
The real test of love is loving those who we feel are the hardest ones to love.
CRISS JAMI
Love without humility results in the inclination to act as everyone's parent, humility without love ...
CRISS JAMI
It is a harsh reality that some of the most important and respectable jobs which deserve high salari...
CRISS JAMI
If you're waiting until you feel talented enough to make it, you'll never make it.
CRISS JAMI
Love tames the benumbed beast. A man is put to use regarding a woman's physical safety, but a woman ...
CRISS JAMI
Most men either compromise or drop their greatest talents and start running after, what they perceiv...
CRISS JAMI
It is so easy at times for a lonely individual to begin fantasizing about what the people outside ar...
CRISS JAMI
Love may be harder to find in some people, but when they do love you know it must be something marve...
CRISS JAMI
Self-righteousness is much like a spiritual egocentricity. It constitutes a secular type of love tha...
CRISS JAMI
To better understand God we must first shatter our own idea of God - maybe even day after day. Maybe...
CRISS JAMI
With too much pride a man cannot learn a thing. In and of itself, learning teaches you how foolish y...
CRISS JAMI
If love is blind, then maybe a blind person that loves has a greater understanding of it.
CRISS JAMI
To esteem what makes you holy over what makes you happy - that is the greatest dare.
CRISS JAMI
One of the biggest contradictions in self-proclaimed open-mindedness is to say that we're all one bu...
CRISS JAMI
Today's zealots are mostly those pretending to be anti-religious.
CRISS JAMI
I will never deny that life isn't fair. It seems as though when a woman leaves a man she is strong a...
CRISS JAMI
The internet is where some people go to show their true intelligence; others, their hidden stupidity...
CRISS JAMI
Jealousy from a love affair is something even God can admit.
CRISS JAMI
Every job from the heart is, ultimately, of equal value. The nurse injects the syringe; the writer s...
CRISS JAMI
Intelligence entails a strong mind, but genius entails a heart of a lion in tune with a strong mind.
CRISS JAMI
To me it seems that too many young women of this time share the same creed. 'Live, laugh, love, be n...
CRISS JAMI
You have to lift a person up before you can really put them in their place.
CRISS JAMI
Have nuts and be nuts.
CRISS JAMI
Confidence turns into pride only when you are in denial of your mistakes.
CRISS JAMI
To be truly positive in the eyes of some, you have to risk appearing negative in the eyes of others.
CRISS JAMI
If you have to say or do something controversial, aim so that people will hate that they love it and...
CRISS JAMI
The problem is politics is made a sport, almost as much a sport as football or baseball. When it com...
CRISS JAMI
As followers of Christ, we are to be careful not to remain victims of the many cultural presuppositi...
CRISS JAMI
My belief is that, morally, God and Satan are vaguely on the same page. According to the common unde...
CRISS JAMI
Beware: open-mindedness will often say, 'Everything is permissible except a sharp opinion.
CRISS JAMI