CHILDLIKE

Quote for Today May 21, 2011

"The great person is the one who does not lose one's child's heart."

Mencius [372-289 B.C.] Works, 2:12 [Check out Jesus' version, Matthew 18:3.""The one who makes himself as little as this little child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven."  In Bartlett's Familiar Quotations where I found the quote from Mencius, a James Legge adds, "But Christ speaks of the child's heart as a thing to be regained. Mencius speaks of it as a thing not to be lost."