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Quotes about Simplicity

Never is a woman so fulfilled as when she chooses to underwhelm her schedule so she can let God overwhelm her soul.
— Lysa TerKeurst
I would like to travel light on this journey of life, to get rid of the encumbrances I acquire each day.
— Madeleine L'Engle
The written word Should be clean as bone, Clear as light, Firm as stone. Two words are not As good as one. I
— Madeleine L'Engle
Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.
— AA Milne
When a man can look upon the simple wild-rose, and feel no pleasure, his taste has been corrupted.
— Henry Ward Beecher
A good teacher does not get lost in the details, but points to what is essential so that the child or student can find meaning and joy in life.
— Pope Francis
Emptiness is that which frees us from religiosity and leads us to true spirituality.
— Brother Lawrence
Though in its beginnings prayer is so simple that the feeble child can pray, yet it is at the same time the highest and holiest work to which man can rise.
— Andrew Murray
In this way our Lord teaches us that with infinite fatherliness and faithfulness is how God meets us in secret, so our part should be the childlike simplicity of faith with the confidence that our prayer will bring a blessing.
— Andrew Murray
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.
— Andrew Murray
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.
— Andrew Murray
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.
— Samuel Johnson