Jewel Quotes

God is not found in the soul by adding anything but by a process of subtraction.

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.

I don't argue when people say that my message is simple, but I believe Jesus' message was simple.

I don't let my religious world get too complicated.

Whatever science and philosophy may do for mankind, the world can never outgrow its need of the simplicity that is in Christ.

Leanness of body and soul may go together.

To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.

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

Doing things like playing music, something that's so natural and basic to human function, running around in nature, eating delicious food. These things are intrinsic in basic, primordial to human beings, so that's sort of a way to return to a blank canvas, allowing my true personality to return.

Pure, holy simplicity confounds all the wisdom of this world and the wisdom of the flesh.

When you're a kid, you lay in the grass and watch the clouds going over, and you literally don't have a thought in your mind. It's purely meditation, and we lose that.

The ultimate truth is so simple; it is nothing more than being in one’s natural, original state.

When we are truly in this interior simplicity our whole appearance is franker, more natural. This true simplicity. . . makes us conscious of a certain openness, gentleness, innocence, gaiety, and serenity. O, how amiable this simplicity is! Who will give it to me? I leave all for this. It is the pearl of the Gospel.

A condition of complete simplicity (Costing not less than everything)

How desirable is this simplicity! Who will give it to me? I will quit all else; it is the pearl of great price.

To rise above treeline is to go above thought, and after, the descent back into bird song, bog orchids, willows, and firs is to sink into the preliterate parts of ourselves.

O God... make me a child again, even before I die; give me back the simple faith, the clear vision of the child that holds its father's hand.

Silence of the heart is necessary so you can hear God everywhere - in the closing of the door, in the person who needs you, in the birds that sing, in the flowers, in the animals.

Daily absorption in the physical actualities of nature is life as I need it to be: it means I am connected to such large things - sky, sea, hill, the vagaries of weather, the undeniable needs of animals - that I can disappear as a subject of interest, I can exist without self-consciousness. The city is a challenge for me, however thrilling a few days prove, for its insatiable overstimulation and the rarity of quiet. The city makes people bigger than they need to be.

I live in a state of grace, where I don't have to know.

In dwelling, be close to the land. In meditation, go deep in the heart.

If you will cling to Nature, to the simple in Nature, to the little things that hardly anyone sees, and that can so unexpectedly become big and beyond measuring; if you have this love of inconsiderable things and seek quite simply, as one who serves, to win the confidence of what seems poor: then everything will become easier, more coherent and somehow more conciliatory for you, not in your intellect, perhaps, which lags marveling behind, but in your inmost consciousness, waking and cognizance.

The ordinary is the divine.

God oft hath a great share in a little house.

If we would find God amid all the religious externals we must first determine to find Him, and then proceed in the way of simplicity. Now as always God discovers Himself to "babes" and hides Himself in thick darkness from the wise and the prudent. We must simplify our approach to Him. We must strip down to essentials (and they will be found to be blessedly few). We must put away all effort to impress, and come with the guileless candor of childhood. If we do this, without doubt God will quickly respond.