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The brethren sometimes err in measuring the Divine love by the sinner's knowledge. — George Eliot

I don't like the idea of [having] a thick skin. I think we [should] be more childlike. — Arianna Huffington

There is small chance of truth at the goal, where there is not childlike humility at the starting-post. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

We need to remain childlike. Children don't dream of being insignificant. — Bill Johnson

He bent close to me, and suddenly kissed me, in a manner that seemed entirely childlike and also a bit European. — Anne Rice

Grow in a way without losing much of our inner childlike deep senses embracing truthful, pure, simple relief of appreciation and gratitude. — Angelica Hopes

I am a child who is getting on. — Marc Chagall

Faith walks simply, childlike, between the darkness of human life and the hope of what is to come. — Catherine Doherty

I think there's a part, just a part of comedians, that is still childlike. — Bob Newhart

I quite like childlike songs, which sometimes cross over. — Alan Price

A simple, childlike faith in a Divine Friend solves all the problems that come to us by land or sea — Helen Keller

221. "Great is the man who has not lost his childlike heart."~ — Mencius

The best teacher of children, in brief, is one who is essentially childlike. — H.L. Mencken

Even the most stoic of men will be childlike at least once in a day. — Claire Bloom

It is the childlike mind that finds the kingdom. — Charles Fillmore

I have repeatedly said that in my opinion the idea of a personal God is a childlike one. — Albert Einstein

Woman understands children better than man does, but man is more childlike than woman. — Friedrich Nietzsche

He's not a child but he's childlike, he's not a grown up, he's not a kid, maybe he sounds like an elf on helium, we'll play with it. — Tom Kenny

To me, 'Ace Ventura' is as scriptural and sacred as any movie I've ever done because it's childlike. — Tom Shadyac

As you get older you're told to be sensible, but it's important for writing if you're a comic that you're able to still access that childlike thing. — Tim Vine

Whatever you choose, do it fully-with passion and childlike enthusiasm. — Mehmet Oz

Teacher, as he was called, looked tiny, childlike, and deceptively vulnerable. — Tan Twan Eng

Be like children , Not childish BUT childlike. — Michael Jackson

Perhaps, people of our kind can't love. The childlike people can; that's their secret. — Hermann Hesse

God's realm belongs to the childlike." - Jesus — Kent Smith

A novelist must preserve a childlike belief in the importance of things which common sense considers of no great consequence. — W. Somerset Maugham

I hope there's always at least a small part of me that's always surprised, always taken aback, always childlike or innocent. — Zachary Levi

I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. — Bill Bryson

Keep the childlike vision and remain true to your ideas. — Wolf Kahn

I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record. — Beck

Ask God to give you childlike faith, removing any barriers to having a closer walk with him. — Anonymous

Don't grow up to fast, darling. Age is inevitable, but if you nuture a childlike heart, you'll never ever grow old. — Beth Hoffman

I have lived a great deal among grown-ups. I have seen them intimately, close at hand. And that hasn't much improved my opinion of them. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

I have heard show business characterized as a refuge for childlike persons in flight from all things harsh and real. — Carroll O'Connor

Christmas; silence breathed childlike anticipation in your heart. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Because in the end to learn a language, to feel connected to it, you have to have a dialogue, however childlike, however imperfect. — Jhumpa Lahiri

There is nothing more pure and beautiful than a person who always speaks truthfully with a childlike heart. — Suzy Kassem

To tap into that natural creative spirit, recapture your childlike enthusiasm for everything around you. Work with the reckless delight of a child. — Nita Leland

The world was beautiful when looked at in this way - without any seeking, so simple, so childlike. — Hermann Hesse

Ripe in wisdom was he, but patient, and simple, and childlike. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Develop a childlike fascination with life and people. — Jim Rohn

At the root of Japanese manufacturing lies a feminine delicacy and shyness as well as a childlike curiosity and fantasy-filled worldview. — Morinosuke Kawaguchi

Out of every difficulty Omnipotence can bring us, only let us in childlike confidence cast our burden upon the Lord. — Charles Spurgeon

I'm very curious and being childlike
is vital in our industry — Paul Smith

I am too childlike to be immature. — Lee Siegel

Always allow your childlike wonder, joy, gratitude, love and laughter to serve as your own soul's tool kit for life's most difficult challenges. — Jan Porter

I love the excitement, the childlike spirit of innocence and just about everything that goes along with Christmas. — Hillary Scott

Childlike in faith means the daily acknowledgment of utter dependence and that I owe my life and being to another. — Brennan Manning

Experience each moment as if it were the first sensation of its kind ever. Bring childlike interest and curiosity to your present-time experience. — Noah Levine

The great person never loses a childlike spirit. — Mencius

Betrayals during war are childlike compared with our betrayals during peace. — Anthony Minghella

A childlike mind in its simplicity practises that science of good to which the wise may be blind. — Friedrich Schiller

He experiences everything with a childlike pleasure that she deems the essential element of a good traveler. — Jennie Fields

Teach me. Lord, my true condition; Bring me childlike to Thy knee; Stripped of every low ambition, Willing to be led by Thee. — Henry Francis Lyte

A kind of childlike purity to her repose that made the thought of kissing her seem vile. — Jessica Khoury

Christmas
Silence in the time
The first snow fell in your laughter
Childlike anticipation
Christmas is in your heart — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

I love how everyone thinks it's so quaint and childlike of me to expect a modicum of privacy around here.
-Remy "Thirteen" Hadley — House

You can't confuse childlike faith with childish thinking. — John F. MacArthur Jr.

Psychic beings are childlike, delicate and easily destroyed. — Frederick Lenz

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

Creativity is a combination of discipline and childlike spirit. — Robert Greene

It's fun telling you tall Texas tales. You always look like a little girl who's hearing Cinderella for the first time. — Edna Ferber

There is a down-and-outness under true knowledge and a childlike happy arising from it. — Franz Kafka

Don't grow up too fast, darling. Age is inevitalbe but if you nurture a childlike heart you'll never grow old. — Beth Hoffman

I try to get as close to a childlike level as possible because we were all artists back then. — Kanye West

I do not write for children, but for the childlike, whether of five, or fifty, or seventy-five. — George MacDonald

[In old age] there is a childlike innocence, often, that has nothing to do with the childishness of senility. The moments become precious ... — May Sarton

My childlike qualities sometimes lead me to jump into projects without thinking of the consequences. — Howie Mandel

The great geniuses are those who have kept their childlike spirit and have added to it breadth of vision and experience. — Alfred Stieglitz

I'm going to miss his childlike laugh. I'll forget the goals but I'll never forget that laugh. — Gordon Strachan

I do have a childlike enthusiasm at times. I certainly enjoy life and get pleasure sometimes in childish things. — Brian Baumgartner

Childlike does not mean shallow. — Jennifer L. Lane

The most creative people have this childlike facility to play. — John Cleese

The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical. — Maya Lin

I have a very childlike rage, and a very childlike loneliness. — Richey Edwards

I have a lot of things [in me] that are childlike and innocent and sweet. — George Carlin

Become more and more innocent, less knowledgeable and more childlike. Take life as fun - because that's precisely what it is! — Rajneesh

Childlike surrender and trust, I believe, is the defining spirit of authentic discipleship. — Brennan Manning

Things involved with a computer fill me with a childlike terror. Now, if it were a nice ogre or some such I'd be more in my element. — Rupert Giles

Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five. — John Updike

Writers who drew, they all seemed to draw the same way. They managed to keep that childlike creativity in their line. — Al Hirschfeld

You can be childlike without being childish. A child always wants to have fun. Ask yourself, 'Am I having fun?' — Christopher Meloni

I like crazy, childlike, candy bar-filled cakes with gooey caramel, chocolate-covered nuts, marshmallows, and the like. — Ron Ben-Israel

To stimulate creativity, one must develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition — Albert Einstein

(While it's lovely to be childlike in your pursuit of creativity, in other words, it's dangerous to be childish.) — Elizabeth Gilbert

Enter the writing process with a childlike sense of wonder and discovery. Let it surprise you. — Charles Ghigna

Those who say that having childlike faith means not asking questions haven't met too many children. — Rachel Held Evans

Never lose the childlike wonder. Show gratitude ... Don't complain; just work harder ... Never give up. — Randy Pausch