Quotes About Belonging

I'd feel equaly out of place anywhere

again, her singing was her only absolute, the only thing that was completely her. a thousand classes hadn't given her this concrete insight: her voice was her place in the world, the home she leaves in the morning and returns to at night, in which she can be herself in her entirety and hope to be loved for all that she is and in spite of all she is.

and suddenly I am washed over by a wave of happiness for it, for my little story, because it is a place, a home even, and I can go back to it from wherever I am

Because even after fifty-six years of independent sovereignty, still the earth trembles beneath Israel's feet. Israel has not yet managed to establish among its citizens the sense that this place is their home. They may feel that Israel is their fortress, but still not truly their home.

Alexander Hamilton, a native West Indian, naturalized New Yorker and extreme nationalist who had no roots in any regional culture.

It was the kind of country that made you feel better about yourself.

The church that worships will have many visitors who never come back, and a few who cannot stay away. Perhaps

I consider you mine, because Donna considered you hers.

Our lack of community is intensely painful. A TV talk show is not community. A couple of hours in a church pew each Sabbath is not community. A multinational corporation is neither a human nor a community, and in the sweatshops, defiled agribusiness fields, genetic mutation labs, ecological dead zones, the inhumanity is showing. Without genuine spiritual community, life becomes a struggle so lonely and grim that even Hillary Clinton has admitted "it takes a village".

The Israeli philosopher Avishai Margalit has suggested that the important thing is not a person's identity but his or her identifications. Tablet: A New Read on Jewish Life

You never feel more American than when you leave America.

Needless to say, it was inconceivable that I would be welome in, let alone invited to, their home. It was as well, then, that I did not limit myself only to those places where people might wish me to be.

Always remember that you belong to no one, and no one belongs to you. Reflect that some day you will suddenly have to leave everything in this world - so make the acquaintanceship of God now.

You either belong wholly to the world or wholly to God.

God made me an Indian.

The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you.

If you enroll as one of God's people, then heaven is your country and God your lawgiver.

The family of God is the choir, and God is their audience.

Child of God, you cost Christ too much for him to forget you.

In the kingdom of God there are no second-class citizens.

We each belong to and are needed in the family of God.

We belong to God. All in us is His.

How many people have you made homesick for God?

We must cease to think of the church as a gathering of institutions and organizations, and we must get back to the notion that we are the people of God.