Quotes about Belonging
As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
- Virginia Woolf
As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.
- Virginia Woolf
I wonder if we have a lot of sons running around saying, "I want a Dad." But you won't abide in anyone.
- Judah Smith
Throughout evolution, ostracism was death indeed.
- Helen Fisher
I go to church as an expression of my need for God and for God's family.
- Philip Yancey
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.
- Philip Yancey
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.
- Philip Yancey
Christianity is not a purely intellectual, internal faith. It can only be lived in community.
- Philip Yancey
Christians behave like spies, living in one world while our deepest allegiance belongs to another.
- Philip Yancey
Novelist Reynolds Price said there is one sentence all humankind craves to hear: "The Maker of all things loves and wants me.
- Philip Yancey
If God's kingdom had a "No Oddballs Allowed" sign posted, none of us could get in.
- Philip Yancey
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.
- Philip Yancey