Quotes about Home

he gave up the idea that there is a better place somewhere else. There is no better place than this, not in this world. And it is by the place we've got, and our love for it and our keeping of it, that this world is joined to Heaven.

Kindness is not a word much at home in current political and religious speech, but it is a rich word and a necessary one.

He turned to his own place then . . . and began to ask what might be the best use of it. How might a family live there without reducing it?

I began to take for granted that I was somewhere, and somewhere that I knew, but I never quite felt that I was somewhere I wanted to be.

Surely heaven must have something of the color and shape of whatever village or hill or cottage of which the believer says, This is my own.

Your outside is just what you live in, sleep in, and has little connection with who you are and even less with what you do.

And you came home? To die. Yes. To die? Yes. To die.

When you walk in the light, you will feel some of the warmth and the happiness that will finally be yours when you are welcomed home again with the hundreds and perhaps thousands of others whom you will bring with you, who have walked in the light because you did.

Carrying a grudge is a heavy burden. As you forgive, you will feel the joy of being forgiven. At this Christmastime you can give and receive the gift of forgiveness. The feeling of happiness that will come will be a glimpse of what we can feel at home together in the eternal home for which we yearn.

What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on

Books are not made for furniture,but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

Our sweetest experiences of affection are meant to point us to that realm which is the real and endless home of the heart.