Quotes about Simplicity

It's a law of life: the tyranny of things.

Take the sweet poetry of life away, and what remains behind?

The busyness of your life leaves little room for the source of your life.

Like dropping through a hole in everything that the world said was important….Like discovering that nothing else mattered and all I needed was now….Temporarily removed from the game….Like floating weightless on the Dead Sea and looking up at an empty sky.

I am just a normal person, and it is normal to have quality time with my family.

It is possible to love more than we know. A simple person in good faith may have a greater love of God than a theologian and, as a result, a keener understanding of the ways of God with the heart than psychologists have.

Relinquish the desire for children and wealth and live the life of 'Vanaprastha,' that is, one retired from the household cares.

There were only two classes of people who heard the cry Christmas night: shepherds and wise men. Shepherds: those who know they know nothing. Wise men: those who know they do not know everything. Only the very simple and very learned discovered God - never the man with one book.

We must not be wise and prudent according to the flesh. Rather, we must be simple, humble and pure.

The highest point of philosophy is to be both wise and simple; this is the angelic life.

Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.

The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.