Quotes About Simplicity

The people who influence us the most are not those who detain us with their continual talk, but those who live their lives like the stars in the sky and "the lilies of the field"—simply and unaffectedly. Those are the lives that mold and shape us.

A simple statement of Jesus is always a puzzle to us if we are not simple. How are we going to be simple with the simplicity of Jesus? By receiving His Spirit, recognising and relying on Him, obeying Him as He brings the word of God, and life will become amazingly simple.

It is not true to say that God wants to teach us something in our trials. Through every cloud He brings our way, He wants us to unlearn something. His purpose in using the cloud is to simplify our beliefs until our relationship with Him is exactly like that of a child—a relationship simply between God and our own souls, and where other people are but shadows.

When the natural power of vision is devoted to the Holy Spirit, it becomes the power of perceiving God's will and the whole life is kept in simplicity.

Are we prepared to purposely disregard ourselves and to launch out into the priestly work of prayer? The continual inner-searching we do in an effort to see if we are what we ought to be generates a self-centered, sickly type of Christianity, not the vigorous and simple life of a child of God.

It is the simple, dreary day, with its commonplace duties and people that smothers the burning heart--unless we have learned the secret of abiding in Jesus.

The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone

I have faith that yields to none, and ways without reproach, and unadorned simplicity, and blushing modesty.

Nothing more, nothing less...

I remember taking my entire wardrobe with me on that trip. It consisted of one shirt on a wire hanger, and one pair of underpants in a carrier bag.

when something seems complicated, we do not understand it, but when we do understand something, it has become simple.

I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.

We have a lot of reasons but only one real one.

I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.

Hay que ser muy simple para resultar siempre coherente.

No hay en toda ella un arbolito; la leña que quemamos es una yerba que tiene una cuarta de alto; las casas que vivimos, son todas cubiertas de paja [...] No le escrivo mas porque se me yelan los dedos".

If you tell too much too soon, you'll overload them and they'll give up. If you confuse them, they'll ignore the message altogether.

I really like to sometimes go into food detox and eat very simply.

If your mind isn't cluttered by unnecessary things, this could be the best day of your life." —

He loved her. It was as simple and as complicated as that.

My earliest memory? Trying to use a red jelly bean as lipstick.

It's much easier to have nothing to live up to. You surprise people when you form a full sentence.

It is great to be a blonde. With low expectations it's very easy to surprise people.

I'm a simple man, Janet. I say what I mean and have no talent for games. I want to show you how I feel about you so there's no chance for misunderstanding. If you think I'm trying to romance you, you're right. I am.