Criss Jami, Killosophy

"Credentials are like potential energy, the compliments of a name on paper, in documents, word of mouth, but faith is like kinetic energy, the motion and the force that which is witnessed. Hence in the end it is the faith rather than the credentials that really takes you places."

"Tell me that the purpose of life is to have fun, and without a care in the world I'll begin wreaking havoc on everything I pass. Now that's what I call pure, honest fun."

"Christians walk as strangers in the world: They are untamed. They are free. To persevere with love, yet untamed by man, is often what leaves that open space for divine revelation when God so wills."

"At first, they'll only dislike what you say, but the more correct you start sounding the more they'll dislike you."

"God tests, but he does not tempt."

"Most men either compromise or drop their greatest talents and start running after, what they perceive to be, a more reasonable success, and somewhere in between they end up with a discontented settlement. Safety is indeed stability, but it is not progression."

"There's nothing more contagious than the laughter of young children; it doesn't even have to matter what they're laughing about."

"As long as I am breathing, in my eyes, I am just beginning."

"When we look for success, it should be for the sole purpose of boasting sincerely in Christ. There's no other reason for it. Success is only worth it when the more intense it gets for you, the more you find yourself bragging for his glory rather than your own."

"Soar with wit. Conquer with dignity. Handle with care."

"God favors men and women who delight in being made worthy of happiness before the happiness itself."

"In God's eyes, a man who teaches one truth and nothing else is more righteous than a man who teaches a million truths and one lie."

"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."

"God favors men and women who delight in being made worthy of happiness before the happiness itself."

"Of course, in our train of thought, we would all like to think we're on the right track, or at least the same railroad company as the right track."

"I enjoy melancholic music and art. They take me to places I don't normally get to go."

"Unlike wealth, there is an infinite value in legacy."

"Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane."

"Whenever I think of something but can't think of what it was I was thinking of, I can't stop thinking until I think I'm thinking of it again. I think I think too much."

"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 teaches, insofar as taking for granted our own caricatures of him. Let it boil in both mind and heart the question, 'If Jesus were to appear today, how many of us would actually recognize him and his teachings (or would it simply be a recount of his first visit)?"