Openness To God Quotes

#1. Contemplative prayer is natural, unprogrammed; it is perpetual openness to God, so that in the openness his concerns can flow in and out of our minds as he wills.

Ray Simpson

#2. Openness to God demands our growing acceptance that we cannot create blueprints for our own lives. Though God's character is unchanging, the ways of God are unpredictable, and there is a difference between arbitrariness and unpredictability.

Enuma Okoro

#3. Not even God can teach a man who comes to the Bible with his mind made up.

William Barclay

#4. Every blossoming flower warns you that it is time to seek the Lord; be not out of tune with nature, but let your heart bud and bloom with holy desires.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#5. The language of art is a 'parabolic' language, with a special openness to the universal: the 'Way of Beauty' is a way capable of leading the mind and heart to the Lord, to elevate them to the heights of God.

Pope Benedict XVI

#6. No matter where your lot may be cast, no power on earth can keep you from making a man of yourself, a superb character, a masterpiece.

Orison Swett Marden

#7. In brokenness comes beauty, divine fragility.

MercyMe

#8. The life-changing encounters that John Quincy Adams made as an adolescent on his own in Stockholm began with a friendship he struck up at a bookstore.

Paul C. Nagel

#9. He wrote as a young man that God's noblest gift was the gift of an inquiring mind.

John Adams

#10. God gave us feelings to feel them, not to judge them. He is the Judge.

Jason Gray

#11. ...God is not located in some far-off celestial abode but is met in the embrace of daily life; that spirituality is, quite simply, about vulnerability and openness and falling in love with solid ground.

Marilyn Lacey

#12. The Word of God bares weight on all ages always.

Matt Chandler

#13. God of wilderness, God of wildness, lead me to the quiet places of my soul. In stillness, in openness, may I find my strength.

Jan L. Richardson

#14. Don't get hung up on the size. If you feel bad about yourself because a 12 is what fits, take a Sharpie, and write '6' on the label.

Stacy London

#15. You can only make money doing what you love.

James Altucher

#16. If you didn't watch 'The Shield,' you should stop everything you are doing and go back and watch 'The Shield.'

Timothy Simons

#17. Faith is a state of constant examination and openness. In faith we must be vulnerable. Only in this seeming weakness do we live with God.

Max Gladstone

#18. She traversed the spectrum of human emotion, and found herself to be flawed, but trusted God to accept all of her. Her vulnerability and openness led to her empowerment.

Helen LaKelly Hunt

#19. It would be very difficult to draw a line between holy wonder and real worship; for when the soul is overwhelmed with the majesty of God's glory, though it may not express itself in song, or even utter its voice with bowed head in humble prayer, yet it silently adores.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#20. Faith, it seems to me, is not the holding of certain dogmas; it is simply openness and readiness of heart to believe any truth which God may show.

Margaret Deland

#21. When the mind grasps the universe, the senses retreat.

Subhash Kak

#22. May spending time with You be my first priority, may listening and obeying mark my life, may extravagant childlike joy and amazement mark my demeanor, may an openness to share your grace quickly and easily flow from me, may I seek your forgiveness and excitedly accept it.

Katie Kiesler

#23. Wonder at God's merciful love is a very practical emotion. Holy wonder will lead you to grateful worship and heartfelt thanksgiving. It will cause within you godly watchfulness; you will be afraid to sin against such a love as this.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#24. Resignation is the better part of wisdom.

Philip Zaleski

#25. In the pages of a book, we find greatest solitude.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#26. Winelibrary.tv was about building personal brand equity. It was a business move. Now, it was totally surrounded by a passion for wine, but I very much gave a lot of thought to doing a sports-video blog instead.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#27. When her daughter was frightened of a thunderstorm, the author pointed out the verse which declares the Heavens reveal the glory of God. When another storm occurred, her daughter ran to the window. Mommy, God's really showing off today!

Beth Moore

#28. I did not practice hours a day for eighteen years to have my success attributed to a myth.

Josh Groban

#29. Augustine in City of God pictures a resurrection in which the bodily systems we no longer need to protect ourselves can use energy to praise God.

Matt Chandler

#30. Life produces a different taste each time you take it.

Frank Herbert

#31. The work is its own reward

Arthur Conan Doyle

#32. There is nothing noble about suffering except the love and forgiveness with which we meet it. Many believe that if they are suffering they are closer to God, but I have met very few who could keep their heart open to their suffering enough for that to be true. (124)

Stephen Levine

#33. In nature, golden illustrations lie upon the surface.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon