Quotes about Simple

It is a simple tale, but its message is an enduring one: virtue and generosity will be rewarded in ways that one cannot know.

Only a piece of machinery could possibly carry all the world's pain. Only a machine, simple, effective and just. But if everything were to happen mechanically, our prayers wouldn't be needed.

Depression tends to turn us away from the everyday things of God's creation. But whenever God steps in, His inspiration is to do the most natural, simple things--things we would never have imagined God was in, but as we do them we find Him there.

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

The Law of the LORD is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the LORD is trustworthy, making wise the simple.

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

For the waywardness of the simple will slay them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them.

Strike a mocker, and the simple will beware; rebuke the discerning man, and he will gain knowledge.

When a mocker is punished, the simple gain wisdom; and when a wise man is instructed, he acquires knowledge.

The prudent see danger and take cover; but the simple keep going and pay the penalty.

I understand once again that the greatness of God always reveals itself in the simple things.

I learned that the world has a soul, and that whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of things. I learned that many alchemists realized their destinies, and wound up discovering the Soul of the World, the Philosopher's Stone, and the Elixir of Life. But above all, I learned that these things are all so simple they could be written on the surface of an emerald.