It seems to me, then, that vulnerability and and self-disclosure are at the heart of what we understand about the nature of God. And the reason I believe gay and lesbian people are spiritual people is that we too have participated in vulnerability and self-disclosure, especially in the process of coming-out. When someone shares with you who they really, really are, it is a special offering. To do so when it risks rejection is a profound, holy gift.
- Gene Robinson
source: Gene Robinson (2012). “God Believes in Love: Straight Talk About Gay Marriage”, p.109, Vintage
topic: Spiritual, Believe, Heart, Self Disclosure
Confidentiality refers to the boundaries surrounding shared secrets and to the process of guarding these boundaries. While confidentiality protects much that is not in fact secret, personal secrets lie at its core. The innermost, the vulnerable, often the shameful: these aspects of self-disclosure help explain why one name for professional confidentiality has been "the professional secret." Such secrecy is sometimes mistakenly confused with privacy; yet it can concern many matters in no way private, but that someone wishes to keep from the knowledge of third parties.
- Sissela Bok
source: Sissela Bok (2011). “Secrets: On the Ethics of Concealment and Revelation”, p.119, Vintage
topic: Confused, Lying, Party, Confidentiality, Self Disclosure
In Christ and by Christ, God effects complete self-disclosure , although He shows Himself not to reason but to faith and love. Faith is an organ of knowledge, and love an organ of experience. God came to us in the incarnation; in atonement He reconciled us to Himself, and by faith and love we enter and lay hold on Him.
- Aiden Wilson Tozer
source: Aiden Wilson Tozer (1965). “The Knowledge of the Holy”, p.12, Fig
topic: Self, And Love, Atonement, Disclosure, Faith And Love