Chris Cruz

Simplicity is about trusting God to be enough and if that means we have to let go of some stuff, then so be it. The goal isn’t just to let go. It’s to be inwardly focussed on God and on his sufficiency for us. You will find sustained joy and contentment by intentionally letting go of secondary things, so the primary things can have their proper place.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The preacher must also be sure that he preaches Christ very simply. He must break up his big words and long sentences, and pray against the temptation to use them. It is usually the short, dagger-like sentence that does the work best. A true servant of Christ must never try to let the people see how well he can preach; he must never go out of his way to drag a pretty piece of poetry in his sermon, nor to introduce some fine quotations from the classics. He must employ a simple, homely style, or such a style as God has given him and he must preach Christ so plainly that his listeners cannot only understand him, but that they cannot misunderstand him even if they try to do so.