Quotes about Simplicity
Christians will want to be in the vanguard in favoring ways of life that decisively break with the exhausting and joyless frenzy of consumerism.
— Pope John Paul II
Creating breathing room financially may lower your standard of living but raise your quality of life.
— Andy Stanley
Happy is the person who has learned the secret of being content with whatever life brings him, and has learned to rejoice in the simple and beautiful things around him.
— Billy Graham
If you have two loves of bread, sell one and buy a lily. The bread becomes a different thing when eaten at a table with the lily in the center.
— Edith Schaeffer
As having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
— Anonymous
A rose can say "I love you", orchids can enthrall, but a weed bouquet in a chubby fist, yes, that says it all.
— Anonymous
A nudist is simply a human being without artificial additives.
— Anonymous
There is a moment of difficulty and danger at which flattery and falsehood can no longer deceive, and simplicity itself can no longer be misled.
— Anonymous
Better is a handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.
— Anonymous
Labor not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.
— Anonymous
Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me.
— Anonymous
Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
— Anonymous