Quotes about Belonging

Humans live best when each has his own place, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things. Destroy the place and destroy the person. You and I, Thufir, of all those who love the Duke, are most ideally situated to destroy the other's place.

Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia.

God's love isn't based on me. It's simply placed on me. And it's the place from which I should live . . . loved.

Let's be exclusive' Charles Wallace said.

And as long as there are even a few who belong to the Old Music, you are still our brothers and sisters.

I felt so insufferably alone. I remembered Miss Myra Turnbull telling us once that this desperate need we have to belong to someone goes back to our earliest forebears, the lowest form of animal life, the amoeba, each individual particle of which has to be joined to other particles to make a whole. Then

You matter. You are. Be.

And if God approves of people like Alicia, he doesn't want me; and the devil does. It's nice to be wanted, Mrs. Franklin. I haven't been wanted for a long time now.

Find your uniqueness and embrace it with pride.

In communion with Christ, you and I are members of his body, his Church, together with our fellow Christians

Since he has so chosen us, we belong to him, more especially because he has bought us by the blood of his Son.

No one truly belongs to the church and is counted among God's children, unless he first becomes a new man.