Quotes about Belonging

I desire only Him and to be wholly His.

If our deepest desires cannot be satisfied in this world, then we must have been made for another world.

Our community belongs to us and whether it is mean or majestic, whether arrayed in glory or covered in shame, we cannot but share its character and destiny.

It is important to be in the 'we' of the Church, in the 'we' of the life of the Liturgy.

If I have a hope, it's that God sat over the dark nothing and wrote you and me, specifically, into the story, and put us in with the sunset and the rainstorm as though to say, enjoy your place in my story. The beauty of it means you matter, and you can create within it even as I have created you.

THINGS JESUS NEVER SAID: You should come with me to church.

I listened so hard because it felt like, while she was telling me stories, she was massaging my soul, letting me know that I was not alone, that I will never have to be alone, that there are friends and family and churches and coffee shops. I was not going to be cast into space.

When a person has no other persons he invents them because he was not designed to be alone, because it isn't good for a person to be alone.

God made me, He knows me, He understands me, and He wants community.

People want to be involved in a story that is larger than themselves.

In the churches I used to go to, I felt like I didn't fit in... I was accepted but not understood. There was room at the table for me, but I was not part of the family.

Acceptance is like an antibiotic that prevents past rejections from turning into present-day infections. The need for belonging runs deep.