Back-to-Basics.....Faith and Simplicity

For our Spiritual Night (FHE) this year, I will be using the topics from the chapters in the "Gospel Principles" manual...they are really "back-to-basics" topics and the material in the manual is not more than can be covered nicely by the Relief Society/Priesthood teachers on Sunday.  That leaves me with the challenge of finding enrichment material on the topic of the week for our Monday night hour.  As I was gathering thoughts for an introductory "lesson", I opened my old journal of thoughts and found the following quotes on "Simplicity" and "Faith"...I think I shall be able to develope these thoughts quite nicely for those who have complained that "We've heard all of this [the basics] before!"

from Albert Einstein:  "When the solution is simple, God is answering."

from Neal A. Maxwell: "The wold wants the gospel to be complex, and then not understanding it, have an excuse for not living it."

from Rainer Maria Rilke:  "Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart, and learn to love the questions themselves."

and...George Santayana:
                              "O world, thou choosest not the better part!
                               It is not wisdom to be only wise,
                               And on the inward vision close the eyes,
                                But it is wisdom to believe the heart.
                                Columbus found a world but had no chart,
                                Save one that faith deciphered in the skies;
                                To trust the soul's invinsible surmise
                                Was all hiis science and his only art.
                                Our knowledge is a torch of smokey pine
                                That lights the pathway but one step ahead
                                Across a void of mystery and dread.
                                Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine
                                By which alone the mortal heart is led
                                Unto the thinking of the thought devine."

and finally, from some source unknown to me:  "Faith allows us to benefit without complete understanding."

and especially for me..."I was led by the Spirit, not knowing beforehand the things which I should do."
                                                                                                                               1 Nephi 4:6