Quotes about Openness

Any place where we have hardened our hearts or refused to let truth touch and transform that part of us, there will be confusion.

Prayer is such an intimate act, a place of vulnerability. It is, hopefully, when we are our least guarded, our most honest selves. And this is good, of course; this is as it ought to be. When we come to God, we certainly want to come as honestly and openly as we can; we want to be our truest selves before him. Prayer lets us be in a place of need.

Wildness, open spaces, and animals living in utter freedom are all good for our humanity. Sometimes we need geography to usher soul into spaciousness, lightheartedness.

The spirit of our day is a soft acceptance of everything—except deep conviction in anything.

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.