Philosophy Quote by Criss Jami — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“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.”

“No matter how kind you are, always expect a few imbeciles.”

“People love answers, but only as long as they are the ones who came up with them.”

“When we begin to reflect Christ, the Bible, when more understood as being centered around Christ, seems to be potentially every man's biography regarding God's promised experiences and truth for him - his individual, unique path of humbling oneself before the Lord and then being exalted by the Lord back into his true and righteous personhood. Many followers may speak of it merely to try to change other people (before changing themselves), but the prophets speak of it as a living word which miraculously tells their very own experiences.”

“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.”

“Septimus has been working too hard" - that was all she could say to her own mother. To love makes one solitary, she thought.”

“let the speaker speak truly and the judge decide justly.”

“Wisdom is seeing something in a non-habitual manner.”

“...as I get older, I find myself insisting on my right to be philosophically sloppy.”

“Who is John Galt?”

“Students of the heavens are separable into astronomers and astrologers as readily as are the minor domestic ruminants into sheep and goats, but the separation of philosophers into sages and cranks seems to be more sensitive to frames of reference.”