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Quotes About Childlike

God is active and present in every moment of our lives, but too often we are so caught up in how we ought to be rather than allowing ourselves to be swept up into the whirlwind of the Spirit. God desires that we learn to play again, to experience Him like little children do, open in wonder to the vastness and endless wonder of Him.
~ Sally Clarkson
Be like a very small joyous child, living gloriously in the ever present now, without a single worry or concern about even the next moment of time.
~ Eileen Caddy
I've hardly had an avant-garde career ... If you're going to make a film, you have to try to make sure it comes out of a childlike passion, as if you're doing it for the first time.
~ Alan J. Pakula
When the lord says you must 'become as one of these little ones,' I take Him to mean you must be stripped of all the accretions of smugness and pretence and triviality.
~ Marilynne Robinson
Humility is much more profound than honesty about our problems or looking at the ground when we speak. It's about dependency and childlike trust, and it doesn't contain a whiff of self-righteousness or defensiveness.
~ Mark Perry
The great Leonardo remained like a child for the whole of his life…Even as an adult he continued to play, and this is why he often appeared uncanny and incomprehensible to his contemporaries.
~ Sigmund Freud
I want to create spaces for people to enjoy, not admire. There's a bit of the child in all of us. Life's too short for minimalism.
~ Sophie Kinsella
To be humble, and like a little child, afraid of taking a step alone, and so conscious of snares and dangers around us as to cry to Him continually to hold us up that we may be safe, is the sure, the infallible, the only secret of walking closely with Him.
~ John Newton
What makes a man's 80 year-old Irish uncle skip like a little boy? "Me Father is very fond of me!
~ John Ortberg Jr.
Abre tu corazón para recibir el mejor regalo imaginable: Jesús se ha dado a Sí mismo por ti, muriendo y sirviéndote, para estar contigo por toda la eternidad. Recibe esto. Aléjate de tu pecado y de tu propia justicia. Hazte como un niño. Confía en Él. Confía en Él. Confía en Él con tu vida.
~ John Piper
The point here is that there is no true knowledge of God and no salvation apart from childlike dependence on the grace of God in Christ crucified. If we are not willing to see ourselves as helpless, ungodly sinners and cast ourselves for mercy on the grace of God in Christ, we will not know God or be saved by him.
~ John Piper
Looking like a true survivor, feeling like a little kid!
~ Elton John
The good man signed the papers with the innocence of a child who does what his mother orders without question.
~ balzac honore de viii
Once you realize that everyone is in the same boat, that everyone is just as insecure and childlike as everyone else, that all these jokers in D.C. ruining our world are just greedy kids grabbing for marbles - I think that realization means you're an adult.
~ Conor Oberst
In recent years there's been a lot of philosophical theorising about how important magic is, and how it takes us back to a childlike state of astonishment. I think all this is just nonsense. Magic isn't meaningful or important other than how you're performing it in that moment.
~ Derren Brown
Our feelings of separation from God will diminish as we become more childlike before Him. That is not easy in a world where the opinions of other human beings can have such an effect on our motives. But it will help us recognize this truth: God is close to us and aware of us and never hides from His faithful children.
~ Henry B. Eyring
There's no harm in me. Really, I'm just a big kid.
~ John Lydon
I'm just a big kid, basically. I love to have fun.
~ JaVale McGee
To cease to wonder is to fall plumb-down from the childlike to the commonplace—the most undivine of all moods intellectual. Our nature can never be at home among things that are not wonderful to us.
~ George MacDonald
Often, no doubt, it will appear otherwise, for the childlike child is easier to save than the other, and may come first. But the rejoicing in heaven is greatest over the sheep that has wandered the farthest—perhaps was born on the wild hill-side, and not in the fold at all. For such a prodigal, the elder brother in heaven prays thus— Lord, think about my poor brother more than about me, for I know thee, and am at rest in thee. I am with thee always.
~ George MacDonald
COME TO ME with your gaping emptiness, knowing that in Me you are complete. As you rest quietly in My Presence, My Light within you grows brighter and brighter. Facing the emptiness inside you is simply the prelude to being filled with My fullness. Therefore, rejoice on those days when you drag yourself out of bed, feeling sluggish and inadequate. Tell yourself that this is a perfect day to depend on Me in childlike trust.
~ Sarah Young
I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these 'how' and 'why' questions. Occasionally, I find an answer.
~ Stephen Hawking
In all your course, walk with God and follow Christ as a little, poor, helpless child, taking hold of Christ's hand, keeping your eye on the mark of the wounds on his hands and side, whence came the blood that cleanses you from sin and hiding your nakedness under the skirt of the white shining robe of his righteousness.
~ Jonathan Edwards
Humility is a great ingredient of true faith: he that truly receives redemption, receives it as a little child: Mark x. 15, "Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of heaven as a little child, he shall not enter therein.
~ Jonathan Edwards