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In learning and argumentation, the quality brain is similar to a facility of maximum security. What passes the logic test, free of fallacy and pretense, then must pass the test of biblical accuracy in order to proceed as an adopted, reliable truth.

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Biblical, Order, Brain

Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.34, Criss Jami

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An exceedingly confident student would in theory make a terrible student. Why would he take school seriously when he feels that he can outwit his teachers?

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Teacher, School, Students

Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.96, Criss Jami

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You can't be a rebel without the scars that come with it. Truth is, some days scars are just as ugly as they are beautiful.

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Beautiful, Rebel, Ugly

Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.4, Criss Jami

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God loves atheists. The former ones make the most compelling theists because they're so empirically familiar with how atheists think.

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Atheist, Thinking, God Love

Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.5, Criss Jami

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Philosophy may serve as the bridge between theology and science. All atheism is a philosophy, but not all philosophy is atheism. Philosophy ('love of wisdom') is simply a tool depending on how one uses it, and in some cases, logically understanding the nature of God and existence.

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Philosophy, Bridges, Understanding

Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.10, Criss Jami

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When you're appeasing too much, you might be egotistically over-estimating everyone's need for your approval.

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Approval, Needs, Might

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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.

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Unique, Men, People

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Sometimes it takes a lowly, title-less man to humble the world. Kings, rulers, CEOs, judges, doctors, pastors, they are already expected to be greater and wiser.

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Kings, Hard Work, Humble

Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.86, Criss Jami

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There was a time when skepticism was an act of rebellion. Since to a degree I both believe in evolution and have faith, I can only conclude that, as prophesied, to have faith will someday be an act of rebellion.

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Believe, Have Faith, Degrees

Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.83, Criss Jami

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When everyone believes they are the life coaches, who are the players?

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Believe, Player, Life Coach

Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.13, Criss Jami

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When you're truly awesome, you know that it's actually a burden and wish day after day to be relieved of such a curse. Think of about 95% of the superheroes.

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Thinking, Superhero, Wish

Criss Jami (2013). “Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality”, p.61, Criss Jami

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These days when Christians bicker they exaggerate passion into a legalistic belief and prosperity into a lukewarm belief.

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Christian, Passion, Belief

Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.92, Criss Jami

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Usually without realizing it, our ultimate peace starts and ends in the authority of God alone, which means the solution to living in joy, peace, and harmony with our fellow men has been here for all since the beginning of mankind and throughout civilization. I have yet to feel the urge to argue politics: it reminds me of getting off the freeway to sit in raging traffic.

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Mean, Men, Civilization

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Those who live as though God sets the rules are not going by their own rules. That is the self-sacrifice, or selflessness, that peace more often than not requires. Those who insist on going by their own rules cannot make that sacrifice. They are the steady adherents of (global) conflict because they are forever fighting both themselves and others to do whatever they think that they want to do.

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Fighting, Sacrifice, Thinking

Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.57, Criss Jami

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Whenever you feel like feeling like a devil's advocate, Bible-thump. That, in a worldly world, is the great irony and satire of evangelism.

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Feelings, Devil, World

Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.66, Criss Jami

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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.

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Baseball, Children, Drinking

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The hard part about one being tough yet meek is the illusion of being a punching bag.

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Bags, Punching, Tough

Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.20, Criss Jami

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Many people in a rather reckless context claim to 'just tell it like it is'. In actuality, nobody really stresses what one says so much as the motive behind what one says; hence, he is merely blowing hot air and detracting from 'what is'.

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Stress, Air, People

Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.92, Criss Jami

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Treat people like people. Beware of pity and patronization because in them, you can't see when you're unashamedly looking down on someone.

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People, Pity, Treats

Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.8, Criss Jami

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The hardest thing for a sane person to do is not care what anyone thinks, although everyone swears by it, hence our glorification of insanity.

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Thinking, Insanity, Care

Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.15, Criss Jami

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Christianity, like genius, is one of the hardest concepts to forgive. We hear what we want to hear and accept what we want to accept, for the most part, simply because there is nothing more offensive than feeling like you have to re-evaluate your own train of thought and purpose in life. You have to die to an extent in your hunger for faith, for wisdom, and quite frankly, most people aren't ready to die.

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Train Of Thought, People, Feelings

Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.64, Criss Jami

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Never take advice about never taking advice. That is an old vice of men - to dish it out without being able to take it - the blind leading the blind into more blindness.

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Men, Advice, Vices

Criss Jami (2016). “Healology”, p.31, Criss Jami

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Doubt is a question mark; faith is an exclamation point. The most compelling, believable, realistic stories have included them both.

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Exclamation Points, Doubt, Stories

Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.98, Criss Jami

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

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Laughter, Children, Laughing

Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.54, Criss Jami

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I still believe that many Americans have a deep longing for that glorious moment when a sermon is more Biblical than American.

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Believe, Biblical, Longing

Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.34, Criss Jami

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