Quotes About Belonging

I am left speechless—overwhelmed at the beauty, Jesus, of belonging to you, being desired by you, being "known" by you in the most intimate of all ways.

And you also are among those Gentiles who are called to belong to Jesus Christ. (Rom. 1:6 NIV)

The healthiest relationships we enjoy are good gifts to be treasured, but they are only a scent and symbol of what it means to belong to you. And our most painful and disconnected relationships don't have to define us. We can grieve the loss and bring the wounds to you.

Like most Alaska immigrants, my roots continue to petition for equal time.

I learned a long time ago that place matters to me, on many levels, and maybe more than it should, but it is generally counter-productive for me to resist it.

The first time I saw you,' he says, 'I knew we belonged together.

But for the first time, I had a religious identity. I had come home. And so I called myself a Zen Buddhist at the age of 18.

This was all he wanted now. Some signs that the immense world would accept him and give him the long time he needed to think all the things that must be thought.

While I enjoy spending time in L.A., Britain is my home.

I do a lot of different things, sometimes at the same time, and it's very difficult to figure out where I fit.

It is not hard to feel like an outsider. I think we have all felt like that at one time or another.

... I suppose that it is not so easy to go home and it takes a bit of time to make a son out of a stranger.

We Scots have a fierce pride in the things we do that others can never appreciate. I am the British No. 1, but I would prefer to be the British No. 1 from Scotland every time.

In a volunteer organization there has to be time for community.

I mean, I'm 6-foot-11, I've got red hair, freckles, I'm a goofy, nerdy-looking guy, I've got a speech impediment-I stutter and stammer all the time-and I'm a Deadhead.

You're not going to see people like this again for a long time, he said and I said I always saw people like this & he looked at me for a moment and said, You're not from around here, are you?

I had a tough time fitting in, as I guess most kids do. I felt like school was kind of a grand opportunity to figure yourself out and to figure out what you wanted.

Socially I never was an outsider. I have never thought of the conflict element before frankly, but perhaps it was wanting to belong, and at the same time wanting to retain one's own personality.

I decided it was well past time to take him home and place him in bosom of his family. If you had rather I put him in an orphanage, I fully understand.

I'll be a Quebecker-Canadian. I'm from Quebec, and every time I go to a country, I say that. It's my roots, my origins, and it's the most important thing to me.

I think being an outcast is what sort of strengthens the nerd movement, because you're isolated, so you have time.

To speak from a particular place and time is not provincialism but part of a writer's identity.

Canadians still spend so much time discussing what it means to be Canadian.

Any time I get to go home is a joyous occasion.