Quotes about Simplicity
When you come to Jesus, you don't come to get health, wealth and prosperity. You come to Jesus to get Jesus.
- David Platt
Perhaps I am the turtle, able to live simply anywhere, even underwater for short periods, with my home on my back.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The outside of any building may now come inside and the inside go outside, each seems as part of the other. Continuity, plasticity, and all the new simplicity the imply have at last come home.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Apelles used to paint a good housewife on a snail, to import that she home-keeping.
- James Howell
I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
- Graham Greene
The purifying influence of public confession springs from the fact, that by it the hope in lies is forever swept away, and the soul recovers the noble attitude of simplicity.
- George Eliot
I sought neither preeminence, glory, nor riches; my honor was that Jesus Christ should reign.
- John Knox
When we hear people talk of riches, honors and amusements of the world, let us remember that all things have an end, and let us then say: My God, I wish for You alone and nothing more.
- Alphonsus Liguori
Some simple dishes recommend themselves to our imaginations as well as palates.
- Henry David Thoreau
The Indian's intercourse with Nature is at least such as admits of the greatest independence of each.
- Henry David Thoreau
True beauty lies in purity of the heart.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- Albert Einstein