Quotes about Simplicity

I like neither new clothes nor new kinds of food.

Oh thrice and four times happy... those who plant cabbages.

The greatest wealth is contentment with a little.

The writer doesn't need economic freedom. All he needs is a pencil and some paper.

Books and friends should be few but good.

I love a natural look in pictures.

Don't accumulate possessions, accumulate experiences or vice versa.

In working through nonreligious language to explain that journey, the idea of place became very important. Jesus says, "Here's the deal! I'll leave My place. I'll come to your place. I'll take your place. And then we'll go to My place." This simplicity captured me. Everyone understands places. We all have them. It's where we live our lives day to day. Then Jesus walks into our place and redirects us.

what God loves more than anything else is childlike faith. It's our childlike faith, not our theological vocabulary, that moves the heart of our heavenly Father. It's simple childlike trust. It's the bedrock belief that God is bigger than our problem, bigger than our mistake, bigger than our dream.

Maybe faith has less to do with gaining knowledge and more to do with causing wonder. Maybe a relationship with God doesn't simplify your lives. Maybe it complicates our lives in ways that they should be complicated.

We said there warn't no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don't. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft.

Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.