Win Butler Quotes

When we define ourselves, when I define myself, the place in which I am like you and the place in which I am not like you, I'm not excluding you from the joining - I'm broadening the joining.

Attending church is one thing, belonging is another.

My fans are honestly so unique and so similar. Wherever I travel, they are so, so different but so the same.

I never thought about it, but as an atheist, maybe Nascar is my church?

Every human being has to feel a part of a tribe. It's programmed into us. And you have to feel that you're contributing to something.

The black church will accept anybody.

The Jews know who they are as a people. The Christians have not come together as a people yet.

I believe having religion in your life creates the potential for long-lasting relationships.

I consider myself a human being, a Christian, a father, a husband, so many things, before being a black person.

I'm trying to make a case for those people who don't have a sense of belonging that they should have, that there is something really worthwhile in having a sense of belonging, and recasting and looking at our modern history.

The most basic human desire is to feel like you belong. Fitting in is important.

We don't see ourselves as just a place where we come to worship but as a beacon and a bearer of the culture and a bearer of what makes us a people. But I like to say that this is not necessarily unique to us. It is really what America is all about.

Consort with all the peoples, kindreds and religions of the world with the utmost truthfulness, uprightness, faithfulness, kindliness, good-will and friendliness

The highest result of education is tolerance. Long ago men fought and died for their faith; but it took ages to teach them the other kind of courage, — the courage to recognize the faiths of their brethren and their rights of conscience. Tolerance is the first principal of community; it is the spirit which conserves the best that all men think.

The more we can be in a relationship with those who might seem strange to us, the more we can feel like we're neighbors and all members of the human family.

Belonging has always been a fundamental driver of humankind.

Faith really should be a bridge, not a wall. Because at the end of the day, we should be focusing on what you believe, not what your religion is.

Too many of us still believe our differences define us.

The black community is my community - the LGBT community, too, and the female community. That is my community. That's me; it's who I am.

I don't want anybody to feel like they're different.

I went to the mosque one day, and it came to me, like, 'This is where I belong.'

When people come to my gigs, they feel accepted as they are and they feel part of this family.

I need to feel part of something.

There's such a thing as a tribe - and family of choice.

I want everyone to identify with my tracks and for all of us to be part of it in some way or another.