Quotes about Openness
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
Lord, when we are wrong, make us willing to change, and when we are right, make us easy to live with!
— Dallas Willard
Invite Jesus into each new situation or interaction.
— Dallas Willard
They presume on their justification in being whatever they are—unlike a thought, which by nature is open to challenge and invites the question "Why?
— Dallas Willard
Defensiveness often reveals an area of our lives where we're in denial.
— Kyle Idleman
Innocence is innocent not because it rejects but because it accepts; is innocent not because it is impervious and invulnerable to everything, but because it is capable of accepting anything and still remaining innocent; innocent because it foreknows all and therefore doesn't have to fear and be afraid.
— William Faulkner
We ought to view ourselves with the same curiosity and openness with which we study a tree, the sky or a thought, because we too are linked to the entire universe.
— Henri Matisse
To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.
— Henry David Thoreau
Some people are so dry that you might soak them in a joke for a month and it would not get through their skins.
— Henry Ward Beecher
You must give yourself love and open yourself to the possibilities of life. Whatever your dream, know that is possible to change your life and go after it. March Aurelius said, "The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
— Les Brown
Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.
— Wayne Dyer
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
— John F. Kennedy