Quotes about Belonging

Everything finally belongs, and you are a part of it. This knowing and this enjoying are a good description of salvation.

On a man's journey, everything has its place. Our failures, heartbreaks, defeats, and victories; our wounds, dreams, and passions; our stops and our starts-all have a place in our story, and all have a place in our transformation from shadow men to real men. Everything has meaning, and everything belongs.

Your True Self is that part of you that knows who you are and whose you are, although largely unconsciously.

Up to now, we have not been carrying history too well, because "there stood among us one we did not recognize," "one who came after me, because he existed before me" (John 1:26, 30). He came in mid-tone skin, from the underclass, a male body with a female soul, from an often hated religion, and living on the very cusp between East and West. No one owns him, and no one ever will.

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.