Quotes about Simplicity
When I am in the country I wish to vegetate like the country.
- William Hazlitt
Give me the clear blue sky over my head, and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me, and a three hours' march to dinner—and then to thinking! It is hard if I cannot start some game on these lone heaths.
- William Hazlitt
May God enable me to have a single eye and a simple heart, desiring to please God, to do good to my fellow creatures, and testify my gratitude to my adorable Redeemer.
- William Wilberforce
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