Quotes about Simplicity

As a child has to prove a sum to be correct, so the proof that we have prayed correctly is the answer. If we ask and don't receive, it is because we have not learned to pray correctly. Let every learner in the school of Christ therefore take the Master's Word in all simplicity: Every one that asks receives.

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.

Angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.

When a king asked Euclid, the mathematician, whether he could not explain his art to him in a more compendious manner? he was answered, that there was no royal way to geometry.

I was not born for courts or great affairs;I pay my debts, believe, and say my prayers.Pope.

As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children

What a healthy out-of-door appetite it takes to relish the apple of life, the apple of the world, then!

They pass peaceful lives who ignore mine and thine.

Start from scratch with Jesus every day and then be picky about what you add to your life.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

The great artist is the simplifier.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.