Quotes about Simplicity
The simple inherit folly, but the prudent are crowned with knowledge.
— Proverbs 14:18
Keep falsehood and deceitful words far from me. Give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the bread that is my portion.
— Proverbs 30:8
Better one handful with tranquility than two handfuls with toil and pursuit of the wind.
— Ecclesiastes 4:6
He grew up before Him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no stately form or majesty to attract us, no beauty that we should desire Him.
— Isaiah 53:2
Nor are you ever to build a house or sow seed or plant a vineyard. Those things are not for you. Instead, you must live in tents all your lives, so that you may live a long time in the land where you wander.’
— Jeremiah 35:7
Jesus replied, “Foxes have dens and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay His head.”
— Matthew 8:20
Do not carry any gold or silver or copper in your belts.
— Matthew 10:9
“Truly I tell you,” He said, “unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.
— Matthew 18:3
and to wear sandals, but not a second tunic.
— Mark 6:9
Truly I tell you, anyone who does not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.”
— Mark 10:15
“Take nothing for the journey,” He told them, “no staff, no bag, no bread, no money, no second tunic.
— Luke 9:3
Jesus replied, “Foxes have dens and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay His head.”
— Luke 9:58