Quotes about Openness
When one heart opens to another heart, it usually results in love.
— Robin Jones Gunn
Often a good starting point when trying to help those who do not believe in God or accept Christ as Lord is to get them to deal honestly with the question: Would I like for there to be a God? Or, would I like it if Jesus turned out to be Lord? This may help them realize the extent to which what they want to be the case is controlling their ability to see what is the case.
— Dallas Willard
We have to make ourselves available to one another, or we can't experience goodness. It's not so much us seeking God, tracking Her down with a butterfly net; it's agreeing to be found. The Old Girl reaches out to everyone and wants to include us in this beautiful, weird, sometimes anguished life. All people: go figure.
— Anne Lamott
If one wishes to be a lover he must start by saying 'YES' to love.
— Leo Buscaglia
An open mind is not an end in itself but a means to the end of finding truth.
— Peter Kreeft
It is setting aside our own ideas as supreme and our own will as ultimate, freeing us from the burden of having our own way and of being all-wise in our own eyes.
— Dallas Willard
Giving jump starts our relationship with God. It opens our fists so we can receive what God has for us.
— Randy Alcorn
Paul was terribly personal. The books I like are the ones that make you feel like you are with a person who is being quite vulnerable, telling you all sorts of stuff that is personal, and that's the thing Paul did that makes me like him.
— Donald Miller
People pour themselves into their own doctrines, and God has to blast them out of their preconceived ideas before they can become devoted to Jesus Christ.
— Oswald Chambers
Kingdom praying and its efficacy is entirely a matter of the innermost heart's being totally open and honest before God. It is a matter of what we are saying with our whole being, moving with resolute intent and clarity of mind into the flow of God's action.
— Dallas Willard
Hold everything in your hands lightly, otherwise it hurts when God pries your fingers open.
— Corrie Ten Boom
This is the shade of meaning: the door of a physician should never be closed; the door of a priest should always be open.
— Victor Hugo