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When a man has a gift in speaking the truth, brute aggression is no longer his security blanket for approval. He, on the contrary, spends most of his energy trying to tone it down because his very nature is already offensive enough.


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CRISS JAMI If you're waiting until you feel talented enough to make it, you'll never make it.
CRISS JAMI Love tames the benumbed beast. A man is put to use regarding a woman's physical safety, but a woman ...
CRISS JAMI Most men either compromise or drop their greatest talents and start running after, what they perceiv...
CRISS JAMI It is so easy at times for a lonely individual to begin fantasizing about what the people outside ar...
CRISS JAMI Love may be harder to find in some people, but when they do love you know it must be something marve...
CRISS JAMI Self-righteousness is much like a spiritual egocentricity. It constitutes a secular type of love tha...
CRISS JAMI To better understand God we must first shatter our own idea of God - maybe even day after day. Maybe...
CRISS JAMI With too much pride a man cannot learn a thing. In and of itself, learning teaches you how foolish y...
CRISS JAMI If love is blind, then maybe a blind person that loves has a greater understanding of it.
CRISS JAMI To esteem what makes you holy over what makes you happy - that is the greatest dare.
CRISS JAMI One of the biggest contradictions in self-proclaimed open-mindedness is to say that we're all one bu...
CRISS JAMI Today's zealots are mostly those pretending to be anti-religious.
CRISS JAMI I will never deny that life isn't fair. It seems as though when a woman leaves a man she is strong a...
CRISS JAMI The internet is where some people go to show their true intelligence; others, their hidden stupidity...
CRISS JAMI Jealousy from a love affair is something even God can admit.
CRISS JAMI Every job from the heart is, ultimately, of equal value. The nurse injects the syringe; the writer s...
CRISS JAMI Intelligence entails a strong mind, but genius entails a heart of a lion in tune with a strong mind.
CRISS JAMI To me it seems that too many young women of this time share the same creed. 'Live, laugh, love, be n...
CRISS JAMI You have to lift a person up before you can really put them in their place.
CRISS JAMI Have nuts and be nuts.
CRISS JAMI Confidence turns into pride only when you are in denial of your mistakes.
CRISS JAMI To be truly positive in the eyes of some, you have to risk appearing negative in the eyes of others.
CRISS JAMI If you have to say or do something controversial, aim so that people will hate that they love it and...
CRISS JAMI The problem is politics is made a sport, almost as much a sport as football or baseball. When it com...
CRISS JAMI As followers of Christ, we are to be careful not to remain victims of the many cultural presuppositi...
CRISS JAMI My belief is that, morally, God and Satan are vaguely on the same page. According to the common unde...
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