Quotes about Openness

Receive it for the gift it is! Pause, and let the beauty minister to you. I receive this into my soul. Too often we just notice and go on, like a pedestrian who steps over a hundred-dollar bill lying on the sidewalk. Stop and pick it up! In these moments you open yourself and receive the beauty, the gift, the grace—receive it into your being. Let it bring to you God's love, his tenderness, his rich goodness.

Don't let your experience of God up to this point limit what you might enjoy with him in the coming years.

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.

Remember to let her into your heart.

You must feed your mind with reading material, thoughts, and ideas that open you to new possibilities.

A faith that is afraid of other people is no faith at all.

Faith is two empty hands held open to receive all of the Lord

Faith in Jesus must be personal but it cannot be private.

If your faith is threatened by something that's true, then it wasn't much of a faith to begin with, was it?

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.

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.

Now I see a few campuses that are honest