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Live simply so that others may simply live.  

- Mahatma Gandhi

As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.

- Henry David Thoreau

I believe we would be happier to have a personal revolution in our individual lives and go back to simpler living and more direct thinking. It is the simple things of life that make living worthwhile, the sweet fundamental things such as love and duty, work and rest, and living close to nature.

- Laura Ingalls Wilder

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

- Lau Tzu

The ordinary arts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.

- Thomas More

There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.

- Leo Tolstoy

How does the thief on the cross fit into your theology? No baptism, no communion, no confirmation, no speaking in tongues, no mission trip, no volunteerism, and no church clothes. He couldn't even bend his knees to pray.  He didn't say the sinner's prayer and among other things, he was a thief.  Jesus didn't take away his pain, heal his body, or smite the scoffers.  Yet it was the thief who walked into heaven the same hour as Jesus simply by believing.  He had nothing more to offer other than his belief that Jesus was who he said he was. No spin from theologians. No ego of arrogance. No shiny lights, skinny jeans, or crafty words. No haze machine, donuts, or coffee in the entrance. Just a naked dying man on a cross unable to even fold his hands to pray.

- Andrew Snow

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