Joseph Joubert Quotes

Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.

Is not Jesus pointing to children even as models for grownups?

We take ourselves so seriously moment by moment, but India shows you a sense of eternity. You're one little ant on a hill. You're part of life, but you're not the whole thing.

Suffer little children and come unto me.

All children are born Atheists; they have no idea of God.

All spiritual things must have in them a childlike quality. The belief in immortality rests not very much on the hope of going on. Few of us want to do that, but we would like very much to begin again.

The child race is fresh, eager, interested, innocent, imaginative, healthy and full of faith, where the adult race, more often than not, is stale, spiritually debauched, unimaginative, unhealthy, and without faith.

I come to you defenses down with the trust of a child.

Let all children come unto me.

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.

To this day I always say my prayers on my knees 'cause I think maybe they get there sooner.

Eternity to a child offers goodness, and eternal life to a man is essentially corrupting because it involves a certain amount of vanity to embrace it.

Keep eternity before the children.

Prayer is simple, as simple as a child making known its wants to it parents.

It may be a movement towards becoming like little children to admit that we are generally nothing else.

Life is a mystery; that means it cannot be solved. And when all efforts to solve it prove futile, the mystery dawns upon you. Then the doors are open; then you are invited. As a knower, nobody enters the divine; as a child, ignorant, not knowing at all- the mystery embraces you. With a knowing mind you are clever, not innocent. Innocence is the door.

Let your old age be childlike, and your childhood like old age; that is, so that neither may your wisdom be with pride, nor your humility without wisdom.

Children know the grace of god better than most of us. They see the world the way the morning brings it back to them; new and born and fresh and wonderful.

People is themselves when they are children, and not again till they know they'm dying.

A child is a life that has not gone too far away from the Creator. Know a child to know life.

Our Lord needs from us neither great deeds nor profound thoughts. Neither intelligence nor talents. He cherishes simplicity.

We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so much taller than they are. We adults, on the other hand, have outgrown them and have to lower ourselves to stoop down to them. It seems to me that the grass hates us when we confess our love for it. Whoever would partake of all good things must understand how to be small at times.

He who shall teach the child to doubtThe rotting grave shall ne'er get out.

Young children give us glimpses of some things that are eternal.