Quotes about Belonging

God's house is now in the people of God wherever they are, whether it's in the parking lot, in a bowling alley, or in an office cubicle.

But when we understand that we are called to be the church, not just go to church, it changes our identity. No longer do we go to a building where religious activities happen and that is "church." We now are the church all week long.

I am His. My struggles are His. My future is His. My reputation is His. My needs are His. Everything is His!

A person who cannot sacrifice will never belong to himself; he belongs to whatever he was unwilling to give up. If you want to develop maturity and gain the value of learning, you need to learn to give up some things today for greater gains tomorrow.

Most people want to feel a part of the experience

No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a part of a continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were . . .

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

For the two of us, home isn't a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.

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.