Childlike Quotes

143 Childlike quotes by 122 unique authors

I think that's the true litmus test for someone who has become closer to Jesus: their heart is more loving, accepting, childlike, less believing that… — Donald Miller
You can be childlike without being childish. — Christopher Meloni
Pray a little each day in a childlike way for the Spirit of prayer. If you feel that you know, as yet, very little concerning… — Ole Hallesby
The slow-witted approach to the HIV epidemic was the result of a thousand years of Christian malpractice and the childlike approach of the church to… — Derek Jarman
The best actors, I think, have a childlike quality. They have a sort of an ability to lose themselves. There's still some silliness. — Kenneth Branagh
I do have a childlike enthusiasm at times. I certainly enjoy life and get pleasure sometimes in childish things. — Brian Baumgartner
Beautiful was this world, looking at it thus, without searching, thus simply, thus childlike. — Hermann Hesse
It is regrettable that a Dostoyevsky did not live near this most interesting of all decadents (Jesus Christ) - I mean someone who would have… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Whether seventy or sixteen, there is in every being's heart a love of wonder; the sweet amazement at the stars and starlike things and thoughts;… — Samuel Ullman
I became disconnected from the childlike play that art could be. I spent so much time fearing I wasn't good enough that I lost the… — Elisabeth Shue
It seems to me, as time goes on, that the only thing that is worth seeking for is to know and to be known by… — Charles Brent
I think I still keep my sense of wonder, which I call childlike, not childish, childlike. I still have a vivid imagination, and I like… — Iris Apfel
What is childlike humility? Itâ€™s not the lack of intelligence, but the lack of guile. The lack of an agenda. — Todd Burpo
I mean, I'm just speaking of my own experiences and my own desires, and it's a kind of a childlike wonder that could really possibly… — Shirley MacLaine
You can be childlike without being childish. A child always wants to have fun. Ask yourself, 'Am I having fun?' — Christopher Meloni
I think there's a part, just a part of comedians, that is still childlike. — Bob Newhart
I have heard show business characterized as a refuge for childlike persons in flight from all things harsh and real. — Carroll O'Connor
Once you realize that everyone is in the same boat, that everyone is just as insecure and childlike as everyone else, that all these jokers… — Conor Oberst
Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
It is only from the people I've had the good fortune to meet that I am learning the lessons to guide me. Baz Luhrmann, director… — Simon Sinek

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