Love is one of those topics that plenty of people try to write about but not enough try to do. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
We are to give (and take) true love without falling into the narcissistic habit of only trying to take it in. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
If love is blind, then maybe a blind person that loves has a greater understanding of it. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
The real test of love is loving those who we feel are the hardest ones to love. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Dreams and freedom are the same. In order for them to be, they come with a price. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“To esteem what makes you holy over what makes you happy - that is the greatest dare.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
The love of conflict is most evident when opposing forces join sides to defeat the peacemaker. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“Together, we form a necessary paradox; not a senseless contradiction.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“Some of the simplest of truths are also some of the most difficult of truths, but such is Christianity: 'If it's not… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“The only truths worth arguing about are those truths that could prevent or lead to circumstances that may bite us in the… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“All men are born firstly with the instinct to protect themselves. But few grow to really love themselves, and even fewer learn… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Love without humility results in the inclination to act as everyone's parent, humility without love results in the need to be everyone's… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
We are to love God most importantly so that we can grow to love people as he loved us, not so that… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“We live in an age so legalistic, we find it hard to imagine someone wanting to obey their Lord simply because they… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“For those constantly full of joy, they sometimes feel a little guilty for always feeling so good. That guilt is compassion: it… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“Love is boss when everything you hear about a person is filtered through their enemies, yet you still choose to love them.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“What decent philosopher was ever an appeaser? The former is a rare catch among the multitudes of modern opinionists. His role is… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“God is not a God of confusion, although at times one's judgment, for a period, may become clouded in the mi(d)st of… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Self-righteousness is much like a spiritual egocentricity. It constitutes a secular type of love that thrives under conditionality, one in which is… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“The creation of man is evidence for the love of God, the preservation of man is evidence for the patience of God,… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“Imagine a personality so taking that others would pay their last simply to be in its presence. Then of course a number… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“If I were to believe in God enough to call him a murderer, then I might also believe enough that he, as… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“How to love is the real question. We all know to love and to keep loving more, but man's confusion comes from… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
In our worldly perceptions of Jesus, we tend to embrace the kindness of his love ('be encouraged') but not the discipline of… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“Realizing the seriously ruthless, venomous habits and agendas of evil always instills a more fierce passion and longing for a closer God.… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
To love without need or without expectation of restitution, that is how we ought to love. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“The funny thing about the heart is a soft heart is a strong heart, and a hard heart is a weak heart.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Disasters work like alarm clocks to the world, hence God allows them. They are shouting, 'Wake up! Love! Pray! — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Love may be harder to find in some people, but when they do love you know it must be something marvelous. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“For some authorities it isn't that they're evil - or even that they're incompetent - but rather they just don't care enough;… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately, we've rewarded a sort of cowardice by calling it 'kindness', and this has made us utterly spineless when truth finally hits.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“I'm a peasant I'm the muzhik A pest you're destined to play the music And yes it's pleasant to say it's beauty… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“For the case that one thinks he has plateaued in life, God has already set yet another peak for him to reach:… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“You ask me why I don't speak Not a word at will But write so much worth well over a mill' Well… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Love tames the benumbed beast. A man is put to use regarding a woman's physical safety, but a woman is put to… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“If you are not there for other people, do not expect them to be there for you. In many a case one… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“Let me be content with myself to the degree that my capacity to serve others is present, yet discontent with myself to… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people. — Criss Jami Copy Share
“Religion, like science, is only noteworthy when it emphasizes a matter of what is true rather than whose belief is greater or lesser or… — Criss Jami Copy Share
The hated man is the result of his hater's pride rather than his hater's conscience. — Criss Jami Copy Share
What is a genius? A person who demands little to nothing from others, but is often found extremely difficult to have around. — Criss Jami Copy Share
A man does not have to feel less than human to realize his sin; oppositely, he has to realize that he gets no special… — Criss Jami Copy Share
I would rather my descendants have greater abilities and a greater knowledge of the love of Christ than I do, much like standing on… — Criss Jami Copy Share
Peace is more of an internal settlement rather than what is visible on the external. — Criss Jami Copy Share
“Our entire lives we witness individuals, the ones who break some of the most culturally sensitive moral codes, ruined permanently by the media -… — Criss Jami Copy Share
Senses of humor define people, as factions, deeper rooted than religious or political opinions. When carrying out everyday tasks, opinions are rather easy to… — Criss Jami Copy Share
I believe in evolution in the sense that a short-tempered man is the successor of a crybaby. — Criss Jami Copy Share
“God speaks of his children shining best in ways that only he can provide. The heavens lift one as a golden child while the… — Criss Jami Copy Share
It is never just disagreement but always intellectual dishonesty that is the apologist's worst enemy. And its apprentice is ignorance. — Criss Jami Copy Share
