open one's heart

Early into the 30-minute set, the 1978 exhortation by St. John Paul II to “not be afraid” to open one’s heart to Christ sounded out in Italian.

Mass, he preached of the need to open one’s heart to Jesus in these days before Christmas.

It always seemed the most natural thing in the world to open one's heart to him.

Save for Hammerfeldt, whose engagements did not allow him to be much in my company, and to whom it was possible to open one's heart only rarely, I had nobody with whom I was in sympathy.

A very small degree of merit indeed suffices to open one's heart towards a fellow-countryman in a strange land; a truth no doubt known and acted on by knights of industry, matrimonial speculators, and "Broken dandies lately on their travels."