Quotes About Openness

When we know something and rest in that knowing we limit our vision. We will only see what our knowing will allow us to see. In this way experience can be our enemy.

I think vulnerable is something you should always be. [It] makes you open to each experience. I try not to see vulnerability as a negative.

The more you plan and the more rigid you are, it takes away from your experience

We are doomed to failure without a daily destruction of our various preconceptions.

People often remain in the dark, not due to lack of light but of failure to open their eyes.

Being convinced one knows the whole story is the surest way to fail.

Be willing to absorb some risk and failures to allow people freedom to express themselves.

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

And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.

Closed minds do not inspire faith, courage, and belief

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

We have no desire to convince anyone that there is only one way by which faith can be acquired.

Tolerance grows only when faith loses certainty; certainty is murderous.

I call myself a Possibilian: I'm open to...ideas that we don't have any way of testing right now.

The Christian faith, I am proposing, should become (in the name of Jesus Christ) a welcome friend to other religions of the world, not a threat

I feel like a big thing is faith - to never lose my faith and to always stay true to who I am and to never be afraid to show who I am. I think the biggest thing is: Don't ever hide anything.

Faith in people is an a priori requirement for dialogue.

The only way faith can be relevant is by preparing the mind to receive it.

Faith, the least exclusive club on Earth, has the craftiest doorman. Every time I've stepped through its wide-open doorway, I find myself stepping out on the street again.

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

Faith can take many different forms and expressions.

Things would be much easier if you are brave enough to say how you feel.

I don't like being confused, I wish you would just tell me how you feel.