Quotes About Belonging

A Frenchman! Where did you pick up that expression? Are these Burgundians and Bretons and Picards and Gascons beginning to call themselves Frenchmen, just as our fellows are beginning to call themselves Englishmen? They actually talk of France and England as their countries. Theirs, if you please! What is to become of me and you if that way of thinking comes into fashion?

I care for life, for humanity; and you are a part of it that has come my way and been built into my house. What more can you or anyone ask?

Keegan: You feel at home in the world then? Broadbent: Of course. Don't you? Keegan ( from the very depths of his nature): No. John Bull's Other Island

Ser-se único é uma coisa, mas pertencer a um rebanho de pecadores não tem piada.

Still, not to be English is hardly regarded as a fatal deficiency even by the English, though grave enough to warrant sympathy.

I knew too little of Africa to leave it, and what I knew I loved too much.

if I were, even now, without either a dog or a horse in my keeping, I should feel I had lost contact with the earth.

There ought to be a home for children to come to,—and their children,—a central place, to which they could always bring their joys and sorrows,—an old familiar place for them to return to on Sundays and Christmases. An old home ought always to stand like a mother with open arms. It ought to be here waiting for the children to come to it,—like homing pigeons.

The LORD says … "Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by your name; you are Mine." Isaiah 43:1

Nothing haunts us more than our search for, finally, a sense of place. As it turns out, true belonging is found only in the sovereign palm of God. There alone we find our place, even amid the seasons of moving, planting, uprooting, and replanting. It's only when we find our place in Him that we find rest. David said it with beautiful simplicity: I am at rest in God alone. PSALM 62:1, CSB

If we walk in the light as He Himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another. 1 John 1:7

He replied to them, "My mother and My brothers are those who hear and do the word of God. "Luke 8:21

Who does God say we are? If we've received Jesus as our personal Savior, the sum of our identity is found in 1 John 3:1: "How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called the children of God! And that is what we are!

He has rescued us from the domain of darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of the Son He loves. Colossians 1:13

The Lord will not abandon His people, because of His great name and because He has determined to make you His own people. 1 Samuel 12:22

Look at how great a love the Father has given us, that we should be called God's children. And we are! 1 John 3:1

Me, my literary reputation is mostly abroad, but I am anchored here in New York. I can't think of any other place I'd rather die than here.

All the reasons which require the subjection of a believer to the brethren of a particular church, require his subjection to all his brethren in the Lord.

My faith did not require beauty or belonging - the deeper I went into my practice, the less it required at all.

I resent that I have to prove that I'm black.

I've never been from a certain group. I've always reserved a space for myself where I'm unattached to any group, but the part of Judaism that I really take away, that means something to me, is the part about community.

My Hyderabad home is an extension to my family's Delhi residence.

One day when I was 16, I rode my bike to the nearby DMV office to get my driver's permit. Some of my friends already had their licenses, so I figured it was time. But when I handed the clerk my green card as proof of U.S. residency, she flipped it around, examining it. 'This is fake,' she whispered. 'Don't come back here again.'

Becoming a resident of a state may confer the right to get a driver's license, but it does not and should not confer citizenship.