{"id":9671,"date":"2026-02-28T23:18:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T03:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=9671"},"modified":"2026-02-28T23:18:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T03:18:20","slug":"believing-in-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=9671","title":{"rendered":"Believing in Love"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I don’t think I’m at death’s door, but I find myself assessing things I believe as I inch toward that door. I believe the following things:<\/p>\n

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  1. God is in the loving.<\/li>\n
  2. God IS inclusion.<\/li>\n
  3. Demonizing is always untruth<\/li>\n
  4. We belong to each other.<\/li>\n
  5. Separation is an illusion.<\/li>\n
  6. Tenderness is the highest form of spiritual maturity.<\/li>\n
  7. “Kindness is the only non-delusional response to everything” (George Saunders).<\/li>\n
  8. Love your neighbor as you love your child.<\/li>\n
  9. We are all unshakably good.<\/li>\n
  10. A community of cherished belonging is God’s dream come true.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    For what it’s worth, this book just wants to lure us to embracing God’s heart and punto de vista<\/em>. It proposes a mystical view that perhaps can lift us above those things that keep us apart. Nobody VS. Anybody. God’s dream come true.<\/p>\n

    — Gregory Boyle, Cherished Belonging<\/a><\/em>, p. 12<\/p>\n

    Photo: South Riding, Virginia, January 26, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I don’t think I’m at death’s door, but I find myself assessing things I believe as I inch toward that door. I believe the following things: God is in the loving. God IS inclusion. Demonizing is always untruth We belong to each other. Separation is an illusion. Tenderness is the highest form of spiritual maturity. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,25,13,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acceptance","category-core-value","category-god","category-love"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9671"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9673,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9671\/revisions\/9673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}