Quotes About Childlike

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

Only those who look with the eyes of children can lose themselves in the object of their wonder.

I crossed the room, and what you did was to feel my hair over and over again and in different ways, touch it, with the palm of your hand... felt it, strands of hair, with your fingers, touched it as if it were cloth, the way a child touches its favorite surfaces.

For a little while we are again able to see, as the child sees, a world of marvels. For a few moments we discover that nothing can be taken for granted, for if this ring of stone is marvelous then all which shaped it is marvelous, and our journey here on earth, able to see and touch and hear in the midst of tangible and mysterious things-in-themselves, is the most strange and daring of all adventures.

The avant-garde theater is fun; it is free-wheeling, bold, iconoclastic, and often wildly, wildly funny. If you will approach it with childlike innocence -- putting your standard responses aside, for they do not apply -- if you will approach it on its own terms, I think you will be in for a liberating surprise. I think you may no longer be content with plays that you can't remember halfway down the block.

Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.

You're never too old to do goofy stuff.

Her uncle seems almost a child, monastic in the modesty of his needs and wholly independent of any sort of temporal obligations. And yet she can tell he is visited by fears so immense, so multiple, that she can almost feel the terror pulsing inside him. As though some beast breathes all the time at the windowpanes of his mind.

Never lose your childish innocence. It's the most important thing.

The avant-garde theater is fun; it is free-swinging, bold, iconoclastic, and often wildly, wildly funny. If you will approach it with childlike innocence - putting your standard responses aside, for they do not apply - if you will approach it on its own terms, I think you will be in for a liberating surprise.

Set aside a half hour or an hour to rethink the way you make decisions, the habits you have, the biases you may have. And if you think of things, if you come with a little bit of a blank slate and be willing to acknowledge what you don't know, and you'd be willing to think like a child, I think it'll help not only individuals but society at large.

I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.

The people at Dylan's Candy Bar, they have to have an inner child and a sense of fun... and love the colors and the textures.

I'm just a big kid; I get excited. That's probably the one thing in life that I get really excited about is cars.

It may be that we have lost our ability to hold a blazing coal, to move unfettered through time, to walk on water, because we have been taught that such things have to be earned; we should deserve them; we must be qualified. We are suspicious of grace. We are afraid of the very lavishness of the gift. But a child rejoices in presents!

If I were to cry to Thee, my God, with the impulsive faith of a child and with the heavenly tongues of angels...

And wherever faith has accepted the Father's love, obedience accepts the Father's will. The surrender to, and the prayer for a life of heaven-like obedience, is the spirit of childlike prayer.

In this way our Lord teaches us that with infinite fatherliness and faithfulness is how God meets us in secret, so our part should be the childlike simplicity of faith with the confidence that our prayer will bring a blessing.

it is father-like love that awakens childlike trust.

Let there be the deep confession of our inability to bring God the worship that is pleasing to Him; the childlike teachableness that waits on Him to instruct us; the simple faith that yields itself to the breathing of the Spirit.

Trato a este pobre corazón como a un niño enfermo; le concedo cuanto me pide. No se lo cuentes a nadie, que no faltaría quien me lo censurase.

Ich gestehe dir gern, dass diejenigen die Glücklichsten sind, die gleich den Kindern in den Tag hineinleben.

La vejez no nos vuelve infantiles, como dicen, sino que nos encuentra todavía cual verdaderos niños.

Anch'io tratto il mio cuoricino come un fanciullo malato: gli è permesso ogni capriccio. Non dirlo in giro, però: c'è gente che me ne farebbe un rimprovero.