Quotes About Belonging

I'm going to stop flirting with the unstable things of this world so I can fall completely in love with You. I am loved. I am held. I am Yours. I am forever Yours.

I'm not who that guy says I am. I'm not who that girl says I am. I'm not who social media likes and comments say I am. I'm not who the grades, to-do lists, messes, and mess ups say I am. I'm not who the scale says I am or the sum total of what my flaws say I am. I'm going to stop flirting with the unstable things of this world so I can fall completely in love with You. I am loved. I am held. I am Yours. I am forever Yours.

who that guy says I am. I'm not who that girl says I am. I'm not who social media likes and comments say I am. I'm not who the grades, to-do lists, messes, and mess ups say I am. I'm not who the scale says I am or the sum total of what my flaws say I am. I'm going to stop flirting with the unstable things of this world so I can fall completely in love with You. I am loved. I am held. I am Yours. I am forever Yours.

The need to belong goes beyond the need for superficial social ties . . . it is a need for meaningful, profound bonding.

when someone of great significance in our lives makes us feel like our belonging is more of a question mark than a security blanket, we become very sensitive to even the slightest hints of rejection.

Now, rest in the security of My name and all that it means to your identity. (Isaiah 45:2 – 3)

We all lose dreams and cherished people, which could make life a continual experience in despair. But if we lean on the great two-thousand-year-old faith of the church, then life is a continual experience of the salvation of God, to whom we belong. In God's hands nothing, and no one, is ever lost. Our only comfort. According

There can be no vulnerability without risk there can be no community without vulnerability there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.

You need the noise of your friends in space.

One and whole, together, the loss and repair belonging to each other," Picasso said. "Over time, all paintings are damaged one way or another. A painting cannot survive a long time unscathed.

CLEARING OUT CLUTTER: "DOES THIS LOOK LIKE IT BELONGS TO THE PERSON I WANT TO BE?

Music hath its land of origin; and yet it is also its own country, its own sovereign power, and all may take refuge there, and all, once settled, may claim it as their own, and all may meet there in amity; and these instruments, as surely as instruments of torture, belong to all of us.

I know that war is very cruel and that life is harder when you aren't able to live in the place you called home.

We are all strangers in a strange land, longing for home, but not quite knowing what or where home is. We glimpse it sometimes in our dreams, or as we turn a corner, and suddenly there is a strange, sweet familiarity that vanishes almost as soon as it comes.

I like to think of home as a verb, something we keep recreating.

Money buys many things, but typically not a sense of either authenticity or meaning.

If I were valuable to anyone, I would not be allowed to live alone.

Of course my flesh reaches for the earth. That is where it belongs.

I did not mind the emptiness either. For a thousand years I had tried to fill the space between myself and my family

This, out of all of it, was perhaps the strangest: that he was their commander now. He would be expected to know them all, their names and armor and stories. He no longer belongs to me alone.

you dont like the stars in Old Glory Then go back to your land across the sea To the land from which you came Whatever be its name

Chrisfield looked straight ahead of him. He did not feel lonely any more now that he was marching in ranks again. His feet beat the ground in time with the other feet. He would not have to think whether to go to the right or to the left. He would do as the others did.

Jesus' disciples are not people lacking resources, but they are poor because they belong to this people under the oppressive and demoralizing dominion of a foreign power (e.g., Lk 6:20). They are indeed thus poor in spirit (Mt 5:3). Jesus does not focus on a concern for the poor in the sense of people who lacked resources. In

The whole, vast world was incomplete without me. Creation reached its finishing touch in me.