Quotes about Belonging

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.

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

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.

For," the outsider will say, "in fact, as a woman, I have no country. As a woman I want no country.

They'll not blame me. They'll not object to me. They'll not mind what I do, if it's wrong. I'm only Mr. Dick.

You are part of my existence, part of myself.

It is a most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home.

I'm wrong in these clothes. I'm wrong out of the forge, the kitchen, or off th' meshes.

"You must love this place very much," said Miss Fenn... "So many homes are like twenty others. But this is unique, and you seem to know every cranny of it. I dare say you could never love another home so well." "Oh, I carry it with me," said Deronda... "To most men their early home is no more than a memory of their early years... The image is never marred. There's no disappointment in memory, and one's exaggerations are always on the good side."

Having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night is a very old human need.