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Simplicity: Quotations from Burning Words

The greatest truths are the simplest, And so are the greatest men. Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed to be simple is to be great.— R. W. EMERSON

"Blessed are the poor in spirit." Blessed are they who are stripped of every thing, even of their own wills, that they may no longer belong to themselves.— FENELON

God would behold in you a simplicity which will contain so much the more of His wisdom as it contains less of your own.— FENELON

- True simplicity regards God alone ; it has its eye fixed upon Him, and is not drawn toward self; and it is as pleased to say humble as great things. All our uneasy feelings and reflections arise from self-love, whatever appearance of piety they may assume. The lack of simplicity inflicts many wounds. Go where we will, if we remain in ourselves, we shall carry everywhere our sins and our distresses. If we would live in peace, we must lose sight of self, and rest in the infinite and unchangeable God.— MADAME GUYON

He sows June fields with clover, and the world Broadcasts with little common kindnesses. The plain good souls He sends us, who fulfill Life's homely duties in the daily path With cheerful heart, ambitious of no more Than to supply the wants of friend and kin, Yet serve God's higher love to human hearts; Giving a secret sweetness to the home, The hidden fragrance of a kindly heart, The simple beauty of a useful life, That never dazzles, and that never tires.— SAMUEL LONGFELLOw

Simpler manners, purer lives; more self-denial; more earnest sympathy with the classes that lie below us, nothing short of that can lay the foundations of the Christianity which is to be hereafter, deep and broad.— F. W. ROBERTSON

Simplicity and purity are the two wings by which a man is lifted above all earthly things. Simplicity is in the intention - purity in the affection. Simplicity tends to God,- purity apprehends and tastes Him.— THOMAS À KEMPIS

As to our friend, I pray God to bestow upon him a simplicity that shall give him peace. Happy are they indeed who can bear their sufferings in the enjoyment of this simple peace and perfect acquiesence in the will of God. If our love were but more simple, We should take Him at His word; And our lives would be all sunshine In the sweetness of the Lord. -— FENELON

If you wish to be like a little child, study what a little child could understand-nature; and do what a little child could do -- love.