Quotes about Openness
Don't let your experience of God up to this point limit what you might enjoy with him in the coming years.
- John Eldredge
The trouble with steeling yourself against the harshness of reality is that the same steel that secures your life against being destroyed secures your life also against being opened up and transformed. (The Sacred Journey) Only when we enter our wound will we discover our true glory.
- John Eldredge
Remember to let her into your heart.
- John Lennon
You must feed your mind with reading material, thoughts, and ideas that open you to new possibilities.
- Oprah Winfrey
A faith that is afraid of other people is no faith at all.
- Thomas Merton
Faith is two empty hands held open to receive all of the Lord
- Alan Redpath
Faith in Jesus must be personal but it cannot be private.
- Rick Warren
If your faith is threatened by something that's true, then it wasn't much of a faith to begin with, was it?
- Rob Bell
But where this Spirit of liberty and boldness is, the heart is enlarged with a true, genuine openness and readiness to express all its concerns unto God as a child unto its father.
- John Owen
But if men will not forego all pre-imbibed opinions, prejudices, and conceptions of mind, however rivetted into them by traditions, custom, veneration of elders, and secular advantages, to hearken unto and receive whatever he shall speak unto them, and that with a humble, lowly frame of heart, they will never learn the truth, nor attain a "full assurance of understanding" in the mysteries of God.
- John Owen
Now I see a few campuses that are honest
- Gloria Steinem
We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality.
- Thich Nhat Hanh