Quotes About Simplicity

For resentment kills a fool, and envy slays the simple.

The LORD preserves the simplehearted; I was helpless, and He saved me.

The unfolding of Your words gives light; it informs the simple.

A song of ascents. Of David. My heart is not proud, O LORD, my eyes are not haughty. I do not aspire to great things or matters too lofty for me.

“How long, O simple ones, will you love your simple ways? How long will scoffers delight in their scorn and fools hate knowledge?

O simple ones, learn to be shrewd; O fools, gain understanding.

“Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!” she says to him who lacks judgment.

“Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!” she says to him who lacks judgment.

Better a dish of vegetables where there is love than a fattened ox with hatred.

Better a dry morsel in quietness than a house full of feasting with strife.

Keep falsehood and deceitful words far from me. Give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the bread that is my portion.

Better one handful with tranquility than two handfuls with toil and pursuit of the wind.

As a man came from his motherís womb, so he will depart again, naked as he arrived. He takes nothing for his labor to carry in his hands.

Nor have we built houses in which to live, and we have not owned any vineyards or fields or crops.

John wore a garment of camelís hair, with a leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey.

Simply let your ëYesí be ëYes,í and your ëNo,í ëNo.í Anything more comes from the evil one.

And when you pray, do not babble on like pagans, for they think that by their many words they will be heard.

And why do you worry about clothes? Consider how the lilies of the field grow: They do not labor or spin.

Jesus replied, “Foxes have dens and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay His head.”

Do not carry any gold or silver or copper in your belts.

Take no bag for the road, or second tunic, or sandals, or staff; for the worker is worthy of his provisions.

“Truly I tell you,” He said, “unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.

John was clothed in camelís hair, with a leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey.

He instructed them to take nothing but a staff for the journey—no bread, no bag, no money in their belts—