Quotes about Belonging

It is religion's job to teach us and guide us on this discovery of our True Self, but it usually makes the mistake of turning this into a worthiness contest of some sort, a private performance, or some kind of religious achievement on our part, through our belonging to the right group, practicing the right rituals, or believing the right things.

Maturity is produced through relationships and community.

What are you doing personally to make your church family more warm and loving? There are many people in your community who are looking for love and a place to belong. The truth is, everyone needs and wants to be loved, and when people find a church where members genuinely love and care for each other, you would have to lock the doors to keep them away.

He wants to be included in every activity, every conversation, every problem, and even every thought.

Only Christ could have brought us all together, in this place, doing such absurd but necessary things.

Jesus taught us a prayer of community and reconciliation, belonging to a new people who have left the land of 'me'.

Home is ultimately not about a place to live but about the people with whom you are most fully alive. Home is about love, relationship, community, and belonging, and we are all searching for home.

My relationship with Northeast Ohio is bigger than basketball. I didn't realize that four years ago. I do now.

What else do we all want, each one of us, except to love and be loved, in our families, in our work, in all our relationships?

Everybody's friend is nobody's.

Some Americans need hyphens in their names, because only part of them has come over; but when the whole man has come over, heart and thought and all, the hyphen drops of its own weight out of his name.

Don't chase people. Be yourself, do your own thing and work hard. The right people - the ones who really belong in your life - will come to your. And stay.