Quote

Every new generation believes its own period to be absolutely superior intellectually - greater than all past cultures yet equal among its modern cultures.

Criss Jami

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Criss Jami
Culture
Generation
Past
Periods
Every
Absolutely
Intellectually
Believe
Among
Cultures
Generations
Superior
Equal
Superiors
Modern
Believes
Greater
Period

More quotes by Criss Jami

Image
Divinity for the sake of the simple-minded is beautiful. Those theological assertions you write, say, or live by that you later feel foolish about, it means God still lives in you enough to tell you that they were indeed foolish. By mistakes you know you are alive.
Criss Jami
Image
If love is blind, then maybe a blind person that loves has a greater understanding of it.
Criss Jami
Image
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
Criss Jami
Image
When I look at a person, I see a person - not a rank, not a class, not a title.
Criss Jami
Image
If I were to envy any persons on this planet, it would be mountain hermits. You often hear old platitudes such as, 'Speak out. Be heard.' On the contrary, a breath of fresh air would be something like: 'Silence, think for at least 15 minutes, and then maybe speak out.
Criss Jami
Image
The apologist is most entrusted with apologetics when capable of arguing his opponent's position better than his opponent.
Criss Jami
Image
I often find that people confuse inner peace with some sense of insensibility whenever something goes wrong. In such cases inner peace is a permit for destruction: The unyielding optimist will pretend that the forest is not burning either because he is too lazy or too afraid to go and put the fire out.
Criss Jami
Image
Everyone has a natural slant towards seeking themselves. This gets in the way of seeking God unless God intervenes.
Criss Jami
Image
Easily mistaken, it is not about a love for adversity, it is about knowing a strength and a faith so great that adversity, in all its adverse manifestations, hardly even exists.
Criss Jami
Image
When a poet digs himself into a hole, he doesn't climb out. He digs deeper, enjoys the scenery, and comes out the other side enlightened.
Criss Jami
Image
Ingredients to success: know what you do well, know what to do well, and know someone who's swell.
Criss Jami
Image
If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.
Criss Jami
Image
Frequent risk-takers have had their fair shares of failures and successes, hence, being confident in reaching their goals, they will usually seem insensitive to whether or not they look foolish or cool to other people.
Criss Jami
Image
The best people are always the worst. They drive everyone mad by being so good at second-guessing everything bad.
Criss Jami
Image
When most of the greatest individuals in history were misunderstood and you've spent so much of your own adult life misunderstood, you can't help but believe that the majority of people know very little worth knowing.
Criss Jami
Image
The last thing Scripture should do is make you blind in the world. Instead, you hear everything, see everything, and feel everything because everything just so happens to point right back to it.
Criss Jami
Image
A part of me genuinely wanted to be the worst because I was so sick of everyone fighting to be the best.
Criss Jami
Image
The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people.
Criss Jami
Image
If I were to vote, I would intentionally vote for the goofiest candidate. It is my theory that when the people can outwit the leader, the more respected their voices will be.
Criss Jami
Image
I've been able to sleep with my eyes open ever since I started watching baseball. Drinking is such a necessity to human life that people cannot fathom an individual who, like a child confined to a church pew, gets little enjoyment out of it and would rather do other things.
Criss Jami