Spiritual Simplicity Quotes

#1. To become a happy person have a clean soul, eyes that see romance in the commonplace, a child's heart, and spiritual simplicity.

Norman Vincent Peale

#2. Dependence, humility, simplicity, cooperation, and a sense of abandon are qualities greatly prized in the spiritual life, but extremely elusive for people who live in comfort.

Philip Yancey

#3. Parents begin by loving their children; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Sol Stein

#4. While the impostor draws his identity from past achievements and the adulation of others, the true self claims identity in its belovedness. We encounter God in the ordinariness of life: not in the search for spiritual highs and extraordinary, mystical experiences but in our simple presence in life.

Brennan Manning

#5. We must not only aim to make a living but to live life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#6. When you have enough, there is no need for excessiveness.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#7. Keep it simple and keep it real. The more basic we see our connection to God and Spirit, the easier it is to feel like you're a part of it.

Jim Fargiano

#8. If you deal obstinacy with obstinacy in this world; resolution will not come. Simplicity against obstinacy will bring about resolution.

Dada Bhagwan

#9. As my spiritual growth expanded and developed, voluntary simplicity was a natural outgrowth. I came to realize the cost of material accumulation was too high and offered fewer and fewer real rewards, psychological and spiritual.

Duane Elgin

#10. Simplify your life. You don't grow spiritual, you shrink spiritual.

Steve Maraboli

#11. Contentment is joy of life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#12. Love sticks around even when it has a lot to put up with.

Chip Ingram

#13. The question is: do you want suffering or do you want peace? It's that simple.

Donna Goddard

#14. Civility must be a natural thing; all the rest is considered etiquette. The path of moksha [ultimate liberation] means there must be simplicity. There should be no 'ghosts of etiquette' there.

Dada Bhagwan

#15. Grownups can be such fakes, I thought. They are always acting like they are trying to help you, and like they want to take care of you, but really they just want something from you.

Ava Dellaira

#16. Supernatural simplicity viewed and perceived with complexity, naturally; many suffer from an outside-in misunderstanding.

T.F. Hodge

#17. As an individual, I think you have to find your own path. I like the simplicity and purity of Hinduism and many elements of Buddhism. These are all means of accessing spiritual energy.

Dave Davies

#18. I'm not that bothered about press nights as an actor or, particularly, by what people say about me, because I see myself as a reasonably small cog.

Rory Kinnear

#19. [The 10-Second Rule's] power is in its simplicity, and yet it gets straight to the heart of what it means to actually follow Jesus.

Clare De Graaf

#20. You can be creative only when there is abandonment-which means, really, there is no sense of compulsion, no fear of not being, of not gaining, of not arriving. Then there is great austerity, simplicity, and with it there is love.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#21. Cleverness is egocentric, dramatic, gives you an illusion of success. We are always running behind it and ultimately suffer. Whereas simplicity is spiritual, blissful, not dramatic, simple but joyful and gives inner peace. Which is our ultimate goal.

Debasish Mridha

#22. Go in all simplicity; do not be anxious to win a quiet mind, and it will be all the quieter. Do not examine so closely into the progress of your soul. Do not crave too much to be perfect, but let your spiritual life beformed by your duties, and by the actions which are called forth by circumstances.

Saint Francis De Sales

#23. Women and people of color and young people especially are about to have this amazing opportunity to shift the political conversation in this country for the good of all of us, toward more progressive policies, and it's a really amazing and important time to be part of that.

Sandra Fluke

#24. If you simplify your life, quit chasing the wind, and be quiet before Him, He'll show up.

Chip Ingram

#25. The spiritual discipline of simplicity is not a lost dream, but a recurrent version throughout history. It can be recaptured today. It must be.

Richard J. Foster

#26. If writers only wrote about things everybody knew, what the hell would be the point of writing?

Haruki Murakami

#27. I don't like changing with the wind; I like sticking to my own self.

Nicole Kidman

#28. Hopeless situations are never hopeless to God.

Chip Ingram

#29. Love says, "I'm with you, let's deal with it.

Chip Ingram