Quotes about Belonging

We talk about heaven being so far away. It is within speaking distance to those who belong there. Heaven is a prepared place for a prepared people.

People inside of belonging systems are very threatened by those who are not within that group. They are threatened by anyone who has found their citizenship in places they cannot control.

I'm starting to realise that there are certain themes that I return to, those being that there is no such thing as normal, and people finding their voice and living authentically. And also that you can be influenced and helped through an extended family.

There was a point in school when I was, like, thirteen, that I didn't feel comfortable at all.

If God wants [my] company, musn't we say that God wants the company of all those who have made [me] to be [me]?

God doesn't love "even" you; though God certainly loves "even" me. Above all, God loves us, as we are together.

Prodigals are not limited in gender, race, age or color. They do have one thing in common: They have left home, and they are missed.

I marvel again at the nakedness of men's lives: the showers right out in the open, the body exposed for inspection and comparison, the public display of privates. What is it for? What purposes of reassurance does it serve? The flashing of a badge, look, everyone, all is in order, I belong here. Why don't women have to prove to one another that they are women? Some form of unbuttoning, some split-crotch routine, just as casual. A doglike sniffing.

I've forgotten about these things all winter, but here they are again, and when I see them I remember them, I know them, I greet them as if they are home.

Having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night is a very old human need.

A person can be lonely even if he is loved by many people, because he is still not the One and Only to anyone.

Grace is the light or electricity or juice or breeze that takes you from that isolated place and puts you with others who are as startled and embarrassed and eventually grateful as you are to be there.