Quotes about Belonging
I was born an American, I live like an American, I will die an American.
— John F. Kennedy
In losing stewardship we lose fellowship; we become outcasts from the great neighborhood of creation.
— Wendell Berry
Christianity is not a purely intellectual, internal faith. It can only be lived in community.
— Philip Yancey
The country in which I live is not my native country that lies elsewhere and it must always be the center of my longings.
— St. Therese of Lisieux
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.
— Cathy Gohlke
Everyone has a home but me.
— Gloria Steinem
People want to come home to the church of their childhood without having to leave their adult selves behind.
— Gloria Steinem
As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
— Virginia Woolf
We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.
— Cicero
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.
— CS Lewis
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.
— Elie Wiesel
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.
— Henry David Thoreau