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Us Quotes by Criss Jami
- Happiness is good, but well-overrated: what we hate most are the very motivators that put us in gear. A man drifts along with little to…
- As followers of Christ, we are to be careful not to remain victims of the many cultural presuppositions of who he is, and what he…
- We are to love God most importantly so that we can grow to love people as he loved us, not so that we can feel…
- The crazy creatives are the creatives who never go completely mad. They aren't so easily disheartened by the seemingly endless amounts of scrutiny that creative…
- The ones who constantly make us laugh are the hardest of friends to know - for comedians are the caricatures among us.
- A god who gave us everything we wanted would be the most malevolent god of all. With an infantile curiosity, we insist on tasting the…
- In the modern Christian attempt to take a stand as Christ did, and maybe for others, win the approval of the world, the Christian will…
- 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…
- In our worldly perceptions of Jesus, we tend to embrace the kindness of his love ('be encouraged') but not the discipline of his love ('and…
- Many of us fight for and boast our freedom of what is ultimately the ability to prove ourselves to other people. It is unfortunate that…
- We have better relationships with those who truly seek us rather than those sitting on the couch watching us move mountains trying to prove ourselves.
- Beyond all sciences, philosophies, theologies, and histories, a child's relentless inquiry is truly all it takes to remind us that we don't know as much…
- We men are fascinated by the things we don't really understand. It gives us something to think and talk about: like females, they drive us…
More Us Quotes
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong