Quotes about Belonging

are deeply loved by God for who we are, not for what we do.

Scripture Reading: Mark 3:31—35 Then Jesus' mother and brothers arrived. Standing outside, they sent someone in to call him. A crowd was sitting around him, and they told him, "Your mother and brothers are outside looking for you." "Who are my mother and my brothers?" he asked. Then he looked at those seated in a circle around him and said, "Here are my mother and my brothers! Whoever does God's will is my brother and sister and mother.

We are deeply loved by God for who we are, not for what we do.

Few of us know the experience of being loved for being just who we are.

We belong to Jesus Christ, because we have all been baptized into His body. Now the powerful presence of the Holy Spirit gives us a spiritual unity that overcomes our differences, enabling us to live together in a caring community that stands out like a city on a hill.

The place where we most belong is not our neighborhood, our nation, our company, or even our family, but our church—the city of God—that caring community where we are known and loved, and where we find deeply supportive faith-building relationships.

Sometimes I feel like the most liberal person among conservatives, and sometimes like the most conservative among liberals.

I'm not out to save the world, just to be part of it.

It's good to have people in your life around whom you can be yourself.

I went to Los Angeles for acting, and I thought that's where I wanted to go, and I found out that I didn't belong there.

I want to show who I am, show my best tennis, show why I'm there, why I belong.

The efficacy of prayer consists in a cognitive-spiritual catharsis, which purifies man of the most hideous untruth and deception, namely, the pretension that he belongs to himself and that he is his own lord.