Quotes About Openness

He just says out loud what other folk keep in the quiet of their hearts.

in such generous form tonight when it comes

Smile at a stranger. See what happens.

The mind of a child is like a kiss on the forehead — open and disinterested

Holding onto the naive belief that travel will open.

All doors are open to the believer. It is the lesson of the Samaritan woman at the well.

All doors are open to the believer. It is the lesson of the Samaritan woman at the well. In my sleepy state it occurred to me that if the well was a portal out, there must also be a portal in. There

All doors are open to the believer.

This open atmosphere was something I had not experienced, simple freedom that did not seem to be oppressive to anyone.

Give away everything you know, and more will come back to you.

Do not covet your ideas. Give away everything you know and more will come back to you.

Don't seek praise, seek criticism.

Anything was possible, and just because things happened in one way didn't mean they couldn' t happen in another.

By wandering aimlessly, all places became equal, and it no longer mattered where he was.

there were other ways of living in this world than the one he knew, that his parents' way was not the only way.

Anything was possible, and just because things happened in one way didn't mean they couldn't happen in another. Everything could be different.

If you're not ready for everything, you're not ready for anything.

Great harm comes when we keep our young people in a bubble in an effort to shield them from hard questions, or when we dismiss their struggles and exhort them to "pray harder," "read the Bible" or "just believe.

Any conditioned cat-hater can be won over by any cat who chooses to make the effort.

Facts, like people, want to be free — and when they're free, liberty is usually around the corner.

Prayer is not bringing your list and asking God to sign on the bottom. Prayer is handing God a blank sheet that you have already signed and trusting him to fill it out as he sees fit.

you and I need to be open and approachable in the midst of our discouragement. We'll never get the help we need if we first demand that people sign on to our view of things before we are willing to open up to them and listen to what they have to say to us.

If you are receptive and humble, mathematics will lead you by the hand.

My brain is open.