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Quotes About Simplicity

We favor hypotheses for their simplicity and explanatory power, much as the architect of the world might have done in choosing which possibility to create.
~ Ian Hacking
Nina knew the power of black and white images. Sometimes a thing was its truest self when the colors were stripped away.
~ Kristin Hannah
I can write hundreds of songs on simple power chords.
~ Miguel
Your innocence itself is a power and your innocence will definitely give you that wisdom by which you can solve all the problems without any difficulty.
~ Nirmala Srivastava
Thinking that everything must be bigger to matter is a problem. Small power emanates and disseminates in a very different way.
~ Peter Buffett
There's more power in the simpler things, I think.
~ Robin Trower
Sometimes Silence Is Better In Explaining Something Than Words....
~ Muhammad Imran Hasan
Tell a story in lesser and simpler words.
~ Pawan Mishra
An empty mind is easy to feed.
~ Stephen Richards
I never realized before this the emotional power of some really simple, corny tropes: people with top hats, people with batons, confetti going off, how important it is to smile.
~ Ira Glass
A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.
~ Doris Lessing
The great method of prayer is to have none. If in going to prayer one can form in oneself a pure capacity for receiving the spirit of God, that will suffice for all method.
~ Jane Frances de Chantal
With God there is no need for long speeches.
~ Jane Frances de Chantal
Three principles of prayer: 1. Keep it honest. 2. Keep it simple. 3. Keep it up.
~ Nicky Gumbel
We should go into His presence as a child goes to his father. We do it with reverence and godly fear, of course, but we should go with a childlike confidence and simplicity.
~ Martyn Lloyd-Jones
may I be I is the only prayer--not may I be great or good or beautiful or wise or strong.
~ e. e. cummings
I do not know much about God and prayer, but I have come to believe over the last twenty-five years, that there's something to be said about keeping prayer simple. Help, Thanks, Wow.
~ Anne Lamott
It is necessary to rouse the heart to pray, otherwise it will become quite dry. The attributes of prayer must be: love of God, sincerity, and simplicity.
~ John of Kronstadt
The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
All that a Christian does, even in eating and sleeping, is prayer, when it is done in simplicity, according to the order of God, without either adding to or diminishing from it by his own choice.
~ John Wesley
Let this be thy whole endeavor, this thy prayer, this thy desire,-that thou mayest be stripped of all selfishness, and with entire simplicity follow Jesus only.
~ Thomas a Kempis
The more deeply we grow into the psalms and the more often we pray them as our own, the more simple and rich will our prayer become.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
We ought to act with God in the greatest simplicity, speak to Him frankly and plainly, and implore His assistance in our affairs.
~ Brother Lawrence
The key to prayer is simply praying.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer