Quotes About Belonging

I was trying to break out of the suburbs, and when I did break out, I don't think I took my whole self with me - I think I played a role of being too cool and hip.

The challenge these days, is to be somewhere, to belong to some particular place, invest oneself in it, draw strength and courage from it, to dwell in a community.

I wonder if we have a lot of sons running around saying, "I want a Dad." But you won't abide in anyone.

People in Finland have also adopted me because of my dad, and that's great, but it's the one language I can't speak.

My father was Catholic, my mother was Protestant, and because of that I got Christened in both churches, so I've got all these names... but my Dad always called me Mick.

My dad's half-Lebanese, my mom is full Lebanese. I'm three-quarters Lebanese. Irish-Lebanese.

Well, I'm sure you'll find someone somewhere who'll have you.

I must have been yearning for some Jewish content beyond my genetic makeup because soon after my 21st birthday, I noticed I was no longer dating WASPs.

Throughout evolution, ostracism was death indeed.

Here lies one from a distant star, but the soil is not alien to him, for in death he belongs to the universe.

Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.

Something was wrong with a world where people came and went so easily.

You don't have to revere your family, you don't have to revere your country, you don't have to revere where you live, but you have to know you have them, you have to know that you are part of them. Because if you don't, you are just out there on your own and I feel for you.

I'm nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody, too? Then there's a pair of us — don't tell! They'd banish us, you know.

I go to church as an expression of my need for God and for God's family.

grace means there is nothing I can do to make God love me more, and nothing I can do to make God love me less. It means that I, even I who deserve the opposite, am invited to take my place at the table in God's family.

I'm convinced that human beings instinctively seek two things. We long for meaning, a sense that our life somehow matters to the world around us. And we long for community, a sense of being loved.

Christianity is not a purely intellectual, internal faith. It can only be lived in community.

Novelist Reynolds Price said there is one sentence all humankind craves to hear: "The Maker of all things loves and wants me.

If God's kingdom had a "No Oddballs Allowed" sign posted, none of us could get in.

The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world…. The reason is obvious. In a large community we can choose our companions. In a small community our companions are chosen for us.

Have learned that the most precious thing is a place where you can be as you are, where someone can see you as your true self.

Another husband, another new house, another new country, but I never belong anywhere and I never own anything in my own right.

Look, you can't fight everyone... You have to choose where you belong and rest there.