Quotes About Belonging

For what are our faculties, but the extension of our personality? and what is property, but an extension of our faculties?

J'ai rêvé d'être un électron libre mais on ne peut pas se couper éternellement de ses racines.

Tôi không bi?t mình là ai, nh?ng tôi bi?t ?i?u mình không mu?n là: m?t ng??i cô ??c. M?t ng??i cô ??c thì ch?ng là ng??i nào c?.

Und ich dachte, ich will einzigartig sein! Ich will nicht einzigartig sein, das ist doch jeder.

Besides, woods made sense. Woods were home.

You don't have to stay if you don't want to,' said the girl called Makepeace. 'But you're welcome to travel with us as long as you like. We believe in second chances, for the people who don't usually get them. 'You're among friends, Hannah, You're home.

And in any case, he felt the strangest sense that this place was his. The sun had been waiting and keeping it warm for him.

Frances Hardinge

Where you are is who you are. The further inside you the place moves, the more your identity is intertwined with it. Never casual, the choice of place is the choice of something you crave.

We were given one country and we've set up in another.

Although I am a person who expected to be rooted in one spot forever, as it has turned out I love having the memories of living in many places.

Losers [...] gain psychic satisfaction from belonging to a winning cause.

You are in my blood. I can't help it. We can't be anywhere except together.

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.

Nationalism is a type of insanity in which the boundaries of a land replace God.

Churchgoers are like coals in a fire. When they cling together, they keep the flame aglow; when they separate, they die out.

Christianity is not a white man's religion and don't let anybody ever tell you that it's white or black. Christ belongs to all people; he belongs to the whole world.

When we are young and restless to be free, home is the place from which we long to escape. But if there is still a home intact when trouble arises and life becomes a battlefield, home is the place to which we yearn to return.

When we know God personally through faith in His Son, Jesus Christ, we can have confidence that the angels of God will watch over us and assist us because we belong to Him.

The church is far greater than [a building or denomination]. It includes the whole family of God—that vast unseen fellowship of men and women throughout the ages who belong to Christ. Paul wrote of "God's household, which is the church of the living God" [1 Timothy 3:15 NIV).

Not only does God give us a new relationship with Himself and make us citizens of His kingdom, but He also gives us a new family—the family of God.

Children respect discipline. They want to be guided. It gives them a sense of belonging, a sense of security.

Do not make the mistake of attaching yourself to a particular minister rather than to the body of the church itself. The ministry may change—it is healthy and stimulating that it should—but the tenets of the church remain the same

The kind of society we live in can contribute to loneliness. Mobility and constant change tend to make some individuals feel rootless and disconnected.