Quotes about Belonging

I am a Christian. He who answers thus has declared everything at once-his country, profession, family; the believer belongs to no city on earth but to the heavenly Jerusalem.

The universe is my country and the human family is my tribe.

Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.

We are created for community, fashioned for fellowship, and formed for a family, and none of us can fulfill God's purposes by ourselves.

The most important thing is family.

Once you've left the concept of family, you've left the concept of kingdom

Home is the place when you have to go there they have to take you in.

Do as Socrates did, never replying to the question of where he was from with, 'I am Athenian,' or 'I am from Corinth,' but always, 'I am a citizen of the world.'

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

...A community needs a soul if it is to become a true home for human beings. You, the people must git it this soul.

Men are free when they are in a living homeland, not when they are straying and breaking away. Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, be