Quotes About Openness

Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs.

One's mind once stretched by a new idea, never regains its orginal dimensions.

Ignorance breeds fear. Tell people the truth. Trust them to keep their heads.

People on the left are always asking me how I get people not on the left to talk to me and I always think it's such an odd question, because the assumption is that there must be some magic trick involved. The trick is I don't lie about my intentions or my thinking, which I consider basic respect I'd pay to anybody in any context, and in return people tend to offer me the basic respect of talking to me like a human being.

I am in favor of complete freedom of information and of free access to the new communication tools, in particular the Internet.

I want to know if you've touched the center of your own sorrow, if you've been opened by life's betrayals, or have become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain.

The world offers itself to me in a thousand ways, and I ache with an awareness of how infrequently I am able to receive more than a small fraction of what is offered, of how often I reject what is because I feel it is not good enough.

I believe in everything that seems true to me right now. I just refuse to be surprised when some of those things I believe in now turn out to be false later.

Culturally, one of the best arguments we can make is, wait and see.

far too much Christian evangelism and apologetics is based on the assumption that almost everyone is open, interested and needy—when most people most of the time are quite simply not.

He would never say something in the shadows that he cannot say directly to a person. If there is something he wants to say, he will always tell the person to their face. He was like that at the university, and he is like that now. That is why he is always losing out.

A free and open internet is vital for the freedom of expression.

Achieving world peace, or peace on Earth requires a strong emphasis on knowledge, openness, freedom of information and dialogue.

Democracy is never far from Transparency just like the term Democracy is not far away from explaining what the term Unity means.

Don't allow yourself to be satisfied with your success. Critique what you've achieved and ask what you can learn from others.

To enjoy living and appreciate it, just explore life without commitment and certain routes will become evident to you.

Zen says: be empty. Look without any idea. Look into the nature of things but with no idea, with no prejudice, with no presupposition.

Don't say this is good and that is bad. Drop all discrimination. Accept everything as it is.

When we lose sight of God we become hard and dogmatic. We hurl our own petitions at God's throne and dictate to Him as to what we wish Him to do. We do not worship God, nor do we seek to form the mind of Christ. If we are hard towards God, we will become hard towards other people.

It takes God a long time to get us to stop thinking that unless everyone sees things exactly as we do, they must be wrong.

As servants of God, we must learn to make room for Him—to give God "elbow room." We plan and figure and predict that this or that will happen, but we forget to make room for God to come in as He chooses.

The call of God is not just for a select few but for everyone. Whether I hear God's call or not depends on the condition of my ears, and exactly what I hear depends upon my spiritual attitude.

Jealously guard your relationship with God. Jesus prayed "that they may be one just as We are one"—with nothing in between (John 17:22). Keep your whole life continually open to Jesus Christ. Don't pretend to be open with Him. Are you drawing your life from any source other than God Himself? If you are depending on something else as your source of freshness and strength, you will not realize when His power is gone.

Is my ear sensitive enough to hear even the softest whisper of the Spirit, so that I know what I should do? "Do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God" (Ephesians 4:30). He does not speak with a voice like thunder—His voice is so gentle that it is easy for us to ignore. And the only thing that keeps our conscience sensitive to Him is the habit of being open to God on the inside.