Quotes about Innocence

A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.

A man is a god in ruins.When men are innocent,life shall be longer and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams

Sorrow makes us all children again[,] destroys all differences of intellect[.] The wisest know nothing[.]

There are innocent men who worship God after the tradition of

when we look in their faces we are disconcerted. Infancy conforms to nobody;

The tragedy with growing up is not that we lose childishness in its simplicity, but that we lose childlikeness in its sublimity.

Jesus is unique because in Him was no sin; He lived a perfect life. Even Pontius Pilate declared, "I find no fault in this man" (Luke 23:4 KJV ).

Tragedia maturiz?rii nu const? în faptul c? ne pierdem copil?ria în simplitatea ei, ci în aceea c? ne pierdem inocenÈ›a în sublimul ei.

Where were you born? On a battlefield, [Yossarian] answered. No, no. In what state were you born? In a state of innocence.

When I grow up I want to be a little boy.

Smile. Have you ever noticed how easily puppies make human friends? Yet all they do is wag their tails and fall over.

Presently a choir of small voices chanted forth an old Christmas carol, the burden of which was— Rejoice, our Saviour he was born On Christmas Day in the morning. I rose softly, slipt on my clothes, opened the door suddenly, and beheld one of the most beautiful little fairy groups that a painter could imagine. It consisted of a boy and two girls, the eldest not more than six, and lovely as seraphs. They were going the rounds of the house and singing at every chamber door