Quotes about Belonging

We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.

The more I come to recognize my story's place in God's grander Story, my once-bewildered questions are turning to psalms of thanksgiving at the wonder that I have been included in what He is doing.

People just want to know that they matter.

We are Americans, speaking the same language, adopting the same customs, holding the same general opinions... and shall rise and fall with Americans.

You don't need to do anything to be loved by the right people.

When you show up with nothing and discover that you're loved because of who you are—that's when you realize what it means to be a son of God... It's pretty breathtaking...

We are Marshalls. We are not alone.

Never go to war without God, Riley. Only when you belong completely to him can he truly use you.

I don't even know what intimacy is, Pastor." "It's belonging and believing and being loving to each other. It's vulnerability to the one person you trust most. It's saying, 'Here's my ugly, battered, wounded heart. I'm going to let you see it and trust you with it.' Did you ever let her see your grief?

Maybe that's why her flat in New York City had never felt like home. Because deep down, Vivien longed to be somewhere where people knew her. Somewhere she belonged.

Somewhere around the fifth or seventh grade I figured out that I could ingratiate myself to people by making them laugh. Essentially, I was just trying to make them like me. But after a while it became part of my identity.

If New York has just become a mall for the world, then what's the difference between being here and somewhere else?