Quotes about Belonging

Being part of a crowd and not standing out is way more frightening than being the person that stands out.

We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.

Prosperity knits a man to the world. He feels that he is finding his place in it, while really it is finding its place in him.

Man, by definition, is born a stranger: coming from nowhere, he is thrust into an alien world which existed before him-a world which didn't need him. And which will survive him.

Wherever a man goes, men will pursue him and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can, constrain him to belong to their desperate odd-fellow society.

Whether your Christian life began yesterday or thirty years ago, the Lord's intent is that you play an active and vital part in his body, the local church. He intends for you to experience the local church as a home more profoundly wonderful and meaningful than any other place on earth. He intends for his churches to be healthy places and for the members of those churches to be healthy as well.

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism…. The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.

There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only 100 % Americanism, only for those who are Americans and nothing else.

As soon as I heard the term 'comedy nerd,' I'd hoped there was a lot of them.

The Church exists to connect people at the level of their hunger for a new world.

I was always a little unsteady in my self-belief. Then there was the Jewish thing. I love being Jewish, I have no problem with it at all. But it did become like a scar, with all these people saying you don't look it.

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.