Quotes about Simplicity
He (God) is not looking for smart people, because He is the smart one. All he wants are people simple enough to trust him.
— Jim Cymbala
The more we know of God, the more unreservedly we will trust him; the greater our progress in theology, the simpler and more child-like will be our faith
— J. Gresham Machen
We need a childlike trust that God is good... ultimately we are OK. That is a simple, beautiful pure thing that can be complicated ferociously by all sorts of intellectual categories.
— Rob Bell
The higher the truth, the simpler it is.
— Abraham Isaac Kook
I want to be simple. I think that we try - and we think when we grow up - that we have the truth, because we experience and stuff. But that bullsh*t actually.
— Stromae
In building a statue, a sculptor doesn't keep adding clay to his subject. Actually, he keeps chiseling away at the nonessentials until the truth of his creation is revealed without obstruction.
— Bruce Lee
All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
— Winston Churchill
So with that will prompt and prepared to serve all those whom I perceive to be servants of my Lord, I will speak of three things with simplicity and love as if I were speaking to my own soul.
— Ignatius of Loyola
My secret is a very simple one: I pray. To pray to Christ is to love him.
— Mother Teresa
We need to return to the simplicity that God is love.
— Rob Bell
It is enough for me to pick up but a straw from the ground for the love of God.
— Brother Lawrence
The simplest words,--we do not know what they mean except when we love and aspire.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson