Quotes about Simplicity
He who is grasped by the one thing that is needed has the many things under his feet. They concern him but not ultimately, and when he loses them he does not lose the one thing he needs and that cannot be taken from him.
- Paul Tillich
The best bit of advice I ever received about how to pray was this: keep it simple, keep it real, keep it up.
- Pete Greig
Archbishop Justin Welby says, the Lord's Prayer is 'simple enough to be memorised by small children, and yet profound enough to sustain a whole lifetime of prayer'.
- Pete Greig
I saw among the simple, I noticed among the youths, a young man lacking judgment,
- Proverbs 7:7
O simple ones, learn to be shrewd; O fools, gain understanding.
- Proverbs 8:5
“Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!” she says to him who lacks judgment.
- Proverbs 9:4
“Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!” she says to him who lacks judgment.
- Proverbs 9:16
The simple inherit folly, but the prudent are crowned with knowledge.
- Proverbs 14:18
Keep falsehood and deceitful words far from me. Give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the bread that is my portion.
- Proverbs 30:8
Better one handful with tranquility than two handfuls with toil and pursuit of the wind.
- Ecclesiastes 4:6
He grew up before Him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no stately form or majesty to attract us, no beauty that we should desire Him.
- Isaiah 53:2
Nor are you ever to build a house or sow seed or plant a vineyard. Those things are not for you. Instead, you must live in tents all your lives, so that you may live a long time in the land where you wander.’
- Jeremiah 35:7