A Quote by Gregory Skovoroda
Give thanks to God, who made necessary things simple, and complicated things unnecessary.
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How my eyes see, perspective, is my key to enter into His gates. I can only do so with thanksgiving. If my inner eye has God seeping up through all things, then can't I give thanks for anything? And if I can give thanks for the good things, the hard things, the absolute everything, I can enter the gates to glory. Living in His presence is fullness of joy- and seeing shows the way in.
I admire writers who can make complicated things simple, but my own talent has been to make simple things complicated.
What makes life complicated is the things that are on me and it is very hard to keep things simple. I see it as I am complicated and there is innocence to this.
In all created things discern the providence and wisdom of God, and in all things give Him thanks.
Thanks be to blessed Nature that she has made what is necessary easy to obtain, and what is not easy unnecessary.
I had forgotten this about love: how the simple things- the turn away, the turn towards- could be so complicated, and how the complicated things- the stolen night, the right words- could be so simple.
We are ignorant of things necessary, because we learn things superfluous and unnecessary
Unity in things Necessary, Liberty in things Unnecessary, and Charity in all.
For the power Thou hast given me to lay hold of things unseen: For the strong sense I have that this is not my home:For my restless heart which nothing finite can satisfy: I give Thee thanks, O God. For the invasion of my soul by Thy Holy Spirit: For all human love and goodness that speak to me of Thee: For the fullness of Thy glory outpoured in Jesus Christ: I give Thee thanks, O God.
Have you ever realized that you can give things to God that are of value to Him? Or are you just sitting around daydreaming about the greatness of His redemption, while neglecting all the things you could be doing for Him? I'm not referring to works which could be regarded as divine and miraculous, but ordinary, simple human things - things which would be evidence to God that you are totally surrendered to Him.
What is style? For many people, a very complicated way of saying very simple things. According to us, a very simple way of saying very complicated things.
Life is sometimes very complicated, but we can purposely learn to enjoy the simple yet powerful and beautiful things God has created!
If a man does not work at necessary and good things, then he will work at unnecessary and stupid things
Simple things have greater power than the complicated things!
In mathematics the complicated things are reduced to simple things. So it is in painting.
..things are never as complicated as they seem. It is only our arrogance that prompts us to find unnecessarily complicated answers to simple problems.
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