Quotes about Simplicity
God wants a child's heart and a grownup's head.
— CS Lewis
A quiet heart is content with what God gives. It is enough. All is grace.
— Elisabeth Elliot
Beware of begging God for things you don't have to have.
— James MacDonald
Live as though only God and yourself were in this world, so that your heart may not be detained by anything human.
— John of the Cross
Nothing in or of this world measures up to the simple pleasure of experiencing the presence of God.
— AW Tozer
In the way of God, thoughts count very little. Love does it all.
— Brother Lawrence
A servant of God has but one Master. It ill becomes the servant to seek to be rich, and great, and honored in that world where his Lord was poor, and mean, and despised.
— George Muller
God asks little, but He gives much.
— St. John Chrysostom
Consider your possessions loaned to you by God.
— Catherine of Siena
I will not glory, even in my orthodoxy, for even that can be a snare if I make a god of it... Let us rejoice in Him in all His fullness and in Him alone.
— Martyn Lloyd-Jones
To be friends with God means to pray with simplicity, like children talking to their parents.
— Pope Francis
What I'm really interested in is whether God could have made the world in a different way; that is, whether the necessity of logical simplicity leaves any freedom at all.
— Albert Einstein