Quotes about Openness

If one wishes to be a lover he must start by saying 'YES' to love.

I open my heart, knowing that love guides my every decision. All is well.

Every day can be like Christmas in its love and its peace if our hearts open up and make room for love. The holy child is waiting to be born in every instant, not just once a year.

The day is brimming with freedom. He took another draw of the air. There's nothing like the clean smell of freedom, wouldn't you say Eden?

We become so used to the familiar that we begin to doubt the unfamiliar, until our eyes are opened and we see .

The only barrier to apprehending the truth is our own unwillingness to see the world as it is instead of how we prefer it to be.

Let go of all that you think you know about Me, so that you can KNOW Me.

We must realize that it is not Satan who defeats us; it is our openness to him. To perfectly subdue the devil we must walk in the "shelter of the Most High" (Ps. 91:1).

Insecurity not only paralyzes our relationship with the living God but has a devastating effect on interpersonal relationships. It is the starting point of all social estrangement. It breaks down openness, which is the bridge to the existential world of the other. It undermines real communication and causes a kind of rupture in the evolution of authentic personality.

The kingdom is not an exclusive, well-trimmed suburb with snobbish rules about who can live there.

To open yourself to another person, to stop lying about your loneliness and your fears, to be honest about your affections, and to tell others how much they mean to you—this openness is the triumph of the child over the pharisee and a sign of the dynamic presence of the Holy Spirit. "Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom" (2 Corinthians 3:17).

The cardinal rule in prayer remains the dictum of Don Chapman: "Pray as you can; don't pray as you can't.