#childlike

A friend of ours, the wife of a pastor at a church in Colorado, had once told me about something her daughter, Hannah, said when she was three years old. After the morning service was over one Sunday, Hannah tugged on her mom's skirt and asked. "Mommy, why do some people in church have lights over their heads and some don't?" At the time, I remember thinking two things: First, I would've knelt down and asked Hannah, "Did I have a light over my head? Please say yes!" I also wondered what Hannah had seen, and whether she had seen it because, like my son, she had a childlike faith. ↗

— Todd Burpo

#childlike-faith #colton #heaven-is-for-real #todd-burpo #faith

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

#appeals #become #child #childlike #count

Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike becomes a little sad. You've got to be careful. ↗

— Rowan Atkinson

#also #apart #be careful #becomes #being

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

— Ron Ben-Israel

#candy #childlike #crazy #i #like

It is the childlike mind that finds the kingdom. ↗

— Charles Fillmore

#finds #kingdom #mind

You can be childlike without being childish. A child always wants to have fun. Ask yourself, "Am I having fun?" ↗

— Christopher Meloni

#childish #childlike #have fun #having fun #without

Boyishness—by which I mean animal life in its fullest measure, good nature and honest impulses, hatred of injustice and meanness, and thoughtlessness enough to sink a three-decker. ↗

— Thomas Hughes

#romanticism #life

Who are you?" "I am Death," said the creature. "I thought that was obvious." "But you're so small!" "Only because you are small. You are young and far from your Death, September, so I seem as anything would seem if you saw it from a long way off-very small, very harmless. But I am always closer than I appear. As you grow, I shall grow with you, until at the end, I shall loom huge and dark over your bed, and you will shut your eyes so as not to see me. ↗

— Catherynne M. Valente

#ominous #touching #death

...childish, selfish, immature - that's right, I am. But do you know how much money I make for thinking this way? ↗

— Tom Hanks

#money

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

#best #childlike #i #i think #lose