Quotes About Simplicity

Thank God for poverty That makes and keeps us free And lets us go our unobtrusive way, Glad of the sun and rain, Upright, serene, humane, Contented with the fortune of a day.

To be friends with God means to pray with simplicity, like children talking to their parents.

What I'm really interested in is whether God could have made the world in a different way; that is, whether the necessity of logical simplicity leaves any freedom at all.

The artist needs but a roof, a crust of bread, and his easel, and all the rest God gives him in abundance. He must live to paint and not paint to live.

God fully knows himself and all things actual and possible in one simple and eternal act.

God has been kind to dogs in no putting a sense of beauty into their heads.

I have lived long enough to learn how much there is I can really do without.... He is nearest to God who needs the fewest things.

Even faith in God is only a stage on the way. Ultimately you abandon all, for you come to something so simple that there are no words to express it.

What is more simple than to believe in God? Its very simplicity argues the case.

God always takes the simplest way.

If God had consulted me before embarking on the Creation, I would have suggested something simpler.

Faith means wanting God and wanting to want nothing else.

Worship God. It's easier than thinking.

Simplicity is the intention, purity in the affection; simplicity turns to God, purity unites with and enjoys him.

The best thing must be to flee from all to the All.

Simplicity reaches out after God; purity discovers and enjoys Him.

Sometimes when you're in a more fast-paced place, with more to see and do, you miss out on things like nature and beautiful, God-made things. They call it "God's country"!

God would behold in you a simplicity which will contain so much the more of His wisdom as it contains less of your own.

Rid yourself of anything that is not directed toward God.

My God, Bobby Fischer plays so simply

Never is a woman so fulfilled as when she chooses to underwhelm her schedule so she can let God overwhelm her soul.

Seek first God's Kingdom, that is, become like the lilies and the birds, become perfectly silent - then shall the rest be added unto you.

Furniture! Thank God, I can sit and I can stand without the aid of a furniture warehouse.

O God... make me a child again, even before I die; give me back the simple faith, the clear vision of the child that holds its father's hand.