Quotes About Belonging

The truest form of wealth is social, not material.

away from ambition and toward connection.

she lived from fellowship to fellowship,

In thinking about religion and society in the 21st century, we should broaden the conversation about faith from doctrinal debates to the larger question of how it might inspire us to strengthen the bonds of belonging that redeem us from our solitude, helping us to construct together a gracious and generous social order.

Dreams are where we visit the many lands and landscapes of human possibility and discover the one where we feel at home. The great religious leaders were all dreamers.

S]ocial life cannot be reduced to a series of market exchanges. We need covenants as well as contracts; meanings as well as preferences; loyalties, not just temporary associations for mutual gain. These things go to the heart of who we are. They are the 'signals of transcendence' in the midst of a fast-paced world. For life to have personal meaning, there must be people who matter to us, and for whom we matter, unconditionally and nonsubstitutably.

Religion' comes from the Latin ligare, meaning to join or bind. Religion binds people within the group – Christian to Christian, Muslim to Muslim, Jew to Jew.

The stories that bind us, Halli. The stories we live by, that dictate what we do and where we go. The stories that give us our names, our identities, the places we belong, the people we hate.

Rest stops have always made him strangely happy. He couldn't say why. Just the idea of everyone on their way somewhere, united by wanderlust, no one belonging more than anyone else.

Being an official divorce brought late-night channel-surfing up to a staggering new level of depressing. I just wanted to belong to someone already.

You know who you belong to, Jack?" "Yeah." "Yourself." He's wrong, actually, I belong to Ma.

Are you mine?" Yes. "Are you mine?" Yes. "Are you mine?" No. "No?" No. I loved being yours. But now I'm mine, which is all I ever was, in the end.

In the true sense one's native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscences and other things dear to one, is not enough to make sensitive human beings feel at home.

I understand what it's like to come with your family, and to uproot yourself and come to another culture. You need a lot of support. People say, 'She's got her daughter she's got her husband.' Yeah, but she hasn't got anyone else.

The church's primary purpose is not to make America more Christian, but to make American Christians less American and Rwandan Christians less Rwandan. We are no longer Rwandans or Americans, neither Hutu nor Tutsi. If we are in Christ, we have become part of a new creation.

poi, c'è la ferita che riguarda continuamente il cristiano nel mondo, quella della solitudine.

presto sarebbe volato via pure quello stupido febbraio e il vecchio Alex si sentiva profondamente infelice ma in modo distaccato, come se la sua vita appartenesse - sensazione fin troppo tipica e cruda ne convengo - a qualcun altro

Y uno entonces fácilmente podía imaginárselo titubeando durante horas ante el viejo caserón y al final no entrando y dedicándose a proseguir con tenacidad su búsqueda de un lugar, de un hogar que quizás no encontraría nunca al volver a casa, pero que podía encontrar un día en medio del camino.

imagina que no es un vagabundo como todos los otros, debido a que tiene casa, un hogar estable, donde, eso sí, también vagabundea.

the 'non-Jewish Jew'. The implosion of the traditional

of German-Jewish writers as 'a marvellous nationality that they claimed when reminded of their Jewish origin, which somewhat resembles those modern passports that grant the bearer the right of sojourn in every country expect the one that issued it'.27

El futuro no es ni del todo nuestro ni del todo ajeno.

We all know, either implicitly or explicitly, that all we really have is our place in the memories of others. We exist to the degree that we know and remember one another. Even the most isolated among us. We share a collective understanding that we are all part of a greater whole. Perhaps

A home is crucial, the foundation of a stable family.