Israel Zangwill Quotes

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

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

I'm trying to imitate Jesus in the fact that he said to be like children, to love children, to be as pure as children and to make yourself as innocent and to see the world through eyes of wonderment and the whole magical quality of it all.

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.

And that's what innocence is. It's simple and trusting like a child, not judgmental and committed to one narrow point of view. If you are locked into a pattern of thinking and responding, your creativity gets blocked. You miss the freshness and magic of the moment. Learn to be innocent again, and that freshness never fades.

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

There are no tricks in plain and simple faith.

We're children. We're supposed to be childish.

To write for children at all is an act of faith.

Stay a child while you can be a child.

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

I try to believe like I believed when I was five...when your heart tells you everything you need to know.

Miss the present and you live in boredom. BE in the present and you will be surprised that there is no boredom at all. Start by looking around a little more like a child. Be a child again! That's what meditation is all about: being a child again - a rebirth, being innocent again, not-knowing.

I find children inspiring. The way they look at the world. The magical world they live in, to me, is inspiring.

Jessica stopped beside him, said: 'What delicious abandon in the sleep of a child.' He spoke mechanically: 'If only adults could relax like that.' 'Yes.' 'Where do we lose it?' he murmured. 'We do, indeed, lose something,' she said.

Wasn't it beautiful when you believed in everything?

We start out in our lives as little children, full of light and the clearest vision.

We need a childlike trust that God is good... ultimately we are OK. That is a simple, beautiful pure thing that can be complicated ferociously by all sorts of intellectual categories.

All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.

See the world as if for the first time; see it through the eyes of a child, and you will suddenly find that you are free.

We should go into His presence as a child goes to his father. We do it with reverence and godly fear, of course, but we should go with a childlike confidence and 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.

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.

Children ask better questions than adults. "May I have a cookie?" "Why is the sky blue?" and "What does a cow say?" are far more likely to elicit a cheerful response than "Where's your manuscript?" "Why haven't you called?" and "Who's your lawyer?"

In the true man there is a child concealed who wants to play.