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Quotes About Simplicity

Humility, in its turn, can be achieved only through faith, fear of God, gentleness and the shedding of all possessions.
~ John Cassian
It takes simplicity and humility to worship God acceptably.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
O daisy mine, what will it be to look / From God's side even of such a simple thing?
~ Alice Meynell
Thou shalt have one God only: who Would be at the expense of two?
~ Arthur Hugh Clough
He would have us like children who believe what their father tells them.
~ Charles Spurgeon
I keep God first. He me to go out and act and be humble and keep it simple. God gave me this gift to bless the world. That's what I'm here to do.
~ Cory Hardrict
We can often do more by doing less. God is not particularly interested in quantity production. That is an American standard, not a Bible standard.
~ Vance Havner
The Amish like to live a very plain lifestyle, the way they think God intended. It sort of brings you back to, like, 'Little House on the Prairie' days or something.
~ Verne Troyer
William Makepeace Thackeray
~ Pray God, keep us simple.
All the new technology seems redundant to me. I was quite happy with the United States mail service. And, I don't even have an answering machine, for God's sake.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
You don't need to use the language of God to ask where the restrooms are.
~ Etgar Keret
Blessed are they who never read a newspaper, for they shall see Nature, and through her, God.
~ Henry David Thoreau
I'd sit on logs like pulpitslisten to the sermonof sparrowsand find god in Simplicity,there amongst the dandelionand thorn
~ Jewel
Happy the heart to whom God has given enough strength and courage to suffer for Him, to find happiness in simplicity and the happiness of others.
~ Johann Kaspar Lavater
Art is just a series of natural gestures. For God's sake, don't try to be artistic - all wild animals walk the same way.
~ John Marin
Out of the freedom from worry that God's generosity provides comes an impulse toward simplicity rather than accumulation.
~ John Piper
the grandeur of God reveals itself through simple things
~ Paulo Coelho
How simple our Lord's word is, Love thy neighbor. Just think how that word has been twisted around, just because it's hard to love thy neighbor.
~ Edgar Maass
Picasso said that no one has to explain a daffodil. Good design is understandable to virtually everybody. You never have to ask why.
~ Hugh Newell Jacobsen
Don't try to be original. Be simple. Be good technically, and if there is something in you, it will come out.
~ Henri Matisse
Simplicity, to me, has always been the essence of good taste.
~ Cary Grant
Most good things have been said far too many times and just need to be lived.
~ Shane Claiborne
Good design means as little design as possible.
~ Dieter Rams
All the really good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow.
~ Grant Wood