Quotes About Transparency

In the United States, serious and damaging public corruption is not getting punished. That means, by default, that we deem it to be just fine.

All innocent mechanisms are muddied up with experience. Children become less and less translucent. Layers of guile and suspicion grow. It's the law of paternal disenchantments.

please open the curtains

and tell you the worst of me and try to give you the best of me...

I've learned to trust myself, to listen to truth, to not be afraid of it and to not try and hide it.

I'm not what you might call a mystery. I'm pretty much an open book – Jake says I'm an audio book, because everything I'm thinking comes out of my mouth.

Part of peace-making is acknowledging that we can't know everything about ourselves, and sometimes we reveal things to others that we are not ready to accept.

The newsletter contributes to the illusion of transparency," he admits. "People are overinformed and undereducated. They have this veneer of knowledge.

It is easy to touch up your outward appearance, to look as if you have it all together. Your attempts to look good can fool most people. But I see straight through you, into the depths of your being. There is no place for pretense in your relationship with Me. Rejoice in the relief of being fully understood. Talk with Me about your struggles and feelings of inadequacy.

You should never let secrets fester.

Secrets aren´t the same as lying.

Be simple and sincere.

Learn to speak what you feel, and act what you speak.

A man may say, "From now on I'm going to speak the truth." But the truth hears him and runs away and hides before he's even done speaking.

NÄ›kdy si ráda pÃ…â"¢edstavuju, že bydlím s pÃ…â"¢ízraky. Ne s tÄ›mi ze své minulosti - v takové nev??ím -, ale s pr?hlednými kusy myÅ¡lenek a knih visícími ve vzduchu jako hedvábné loutky.

Yes, the church is part of the good news of Jesus. And the church proclaims the good news of Jesus. But when men and women have only seen churches formed by unhealthy power, celebrity, competitiveness, secrecy, and self-protection, our corporate ecclesial life belies the truth of the gospel. The church can only witness to the truth of Jesus by seeking justice, serving with humility, operating transparently, and confessing and lamenting failures.

What about the poor? How many poor people, unemployed people, financially struggling people are in your church? Are they even willing to let those facts be known? If not, why not?

The bottleneck is never code or creativity; it's lack of clarity.

People in glass houses shouldn't get stoned

Never apologize for saying what/how you feel. Cuz' that's like saying, "Sorry for being real".

I'm someone who believes the truth needs to be heard. And if I'm empowered with the truth, I'm not going to shut up.

The secrets of their hearts are laid bare. So they will fall down and worship God, exclaiming, "God is really among you!" (1 Cor. 14:25 NIV)

The freer we are in acknowledging our messes, the louder our cry will be for God's mercies.

I've never made any effort to hide what happened. I served my time, I've tried to learn and move on.