Quotes about Belonging

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.

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.

One of the deepest of all human longings is the longing to belong, to be a part of things, to be invited in. We want to be part of the fellowship. Where did that come from?

And he wants you to be utterly yourself, with him.

I was born an American, I live like an American, I will die an American.

In losing stewardship we lose fellowship; we become outcasts from the great neighborhood of creation.

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

The country in which I live is not my native country that lies elsewhere and it must always be the center of my longings.

She wasn't afraid. There had been so many more things to fear in life. Knowing she was loved by many people, even if they couldn't always be with her, was not one of them.

Everyone has a home but me.

People want to come home to the church of their childhood without having to leave their adult selves behind.

As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.