Quotes About Belonging

Subtle persecution may happen to you in your office, school, or social gathering. You may not be "with it," or be "one of the crowd." No suffering that the Christian endures for Christ is ever in vain.

In some ways, Christians are homeless. Our true home is waiting for us, prepared by the Lord Jesus Christ.

The church isn't just a particular building or congregation but the spiritual fellowship of all who belong to Jesus Christ. If we belong to Christ, we also belong to each other.

As human beings, we need to know that we are not alone, that we are not crazy or completely out of our minds, that there are other people out there who feel as we do, live as we do, love as we do, who are like us.

Home is the place we love best and grumble the most.

We discussed the present, but what we really meant was our past. Both of us were living among the living, yet we didn't really belong with them- we were actually the dead, on stolen leave, accidental survivors who got left behind in life.

Has a world composed of "us" and "not us" been invaded at last?

At some point, I gave up on searching... but I've desperately needed to find... a place to belong.

I was never comfortable anywhere... but then...I realized... the world is a big place. So there must be a place for me somewhere.

Why should I be my aunt, or me, or anyone? What similarities boots, hands, the family voice I felt in my throat, or even the National Geographic and those awful hanging breasts held us all together or made us all just one?

I feel like the people from Iceland have a different relationship with their country than other places. Most Icelandic people are really proud to be from there, and we don't have embarrassments like World War II where we were cruel to other people.

Man was formed for society and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it.

All cell phones in the air 'cause I want to see you guys shine.

My father suggested in an early draft that the hipster "became a criminal because he was not allowed to become a citizen.

When you look closely at our small giants, one characteristic immediately jumps out at you. Like Righteous Babe, they were all so intimately connected to the place where they were located that it was hard to imagine them being anywhere else.

The land created me. I'm wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I'm more at home in the vacant lots.

Love would never leave us alone

As you take stock, ask yourself these similar questions: What is my passion? How am I wired? Where do I belong? What do I believe? What will I do about what I believe? Or, as Peter Drucker advised people who were looking for their life's task: What are my values, my aspirations, my directions, and what do I have to do, to learn, to change, in order to make myself capable of living up to my demands on myself and my expectations of life?

What is your passion? What have you achieved? What have you done uncommonly well? How are you wired? Where do you belong? What are the "shoulds" that have trailed you during the first half? These and other questions like them will direct you toward the self your heart longs for; they will help you discover the task for which you were especially made.

He is everything, and as we are joined to Him the poverty of our personal identity is lost in the fullness of His eternal greatness.

For the next hour, Joanne clung to Spence's back, comfortable now with the enforced physical intimacy, loving the wind on her face, the swoops and dizzying corners , the way other bikers saluted as if she and Spence belonged, with them, to a select club.

In the same way that there's a partner for every person, there's a place. All you have to do is find your own among the billions that belong to other people, you have to be awake, you have to choose.

I cannot live in the new time anyway, because I belong to the old time, which is dead.

Often we looked at each other, my husband and I, when we both thought of Ethan, and touched foreheads and gave each other a little kiss ... and those moments when we kissed gradually took on a greater significance than when we first kicked off this strange marriage of ours, wherein both of us knew that although we didn't much like each other, we did somehow belong together ..