Quotes about Belonging
Remember, then, that the real thing in your experience is what your will decides, and not the verdict of your emotions; and that you are far more in danger of hypocrisy and untruth in yielding to the assertions of your feelings, than in holding fast to the decision of your will. So that, if your will is on God's side, you are no hypocrite at this moment in claiming as your own the blessed reality of belonging altogether to Him, even though your emotions may all declare the contrary.
— Hannah Whitall Smith
I think there are people who really love the comfort of their small town, and there are people who feel stuck by it.
— Melissa McCarthy
Only the traveling is good which reveals to me the value of home and enables me to enjoy it better.
— Henry David Thoreau
... a man leaves much when he leaves his own country.
— Cormac McCarthy
The moment someone chooses to trust in Jesus Christ, his sins are wiped away, and he is adopted into God's family. That individual is set apart as a child of God, with a sacred purpose.
— Charles Stanley
We honor the heritage of all who come here, no matter where they come from, because we trust in our country's genius for making us all Americans - one nation under God.
— George W. Bush
You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it's all right.
— Maya Angelou
Somebody loves us, too - God Himself. We have been created to love and to be loved
— Mother Teresa
Love is ownership. We own whom we love. The universe is God's because He loves.
— Henry Ward Beecher
We are the sum of the Father's love for us
— Pope John Paul II
God hates loneliness, and community is God's answer to loneliness. When we walk alongside other people, we find a community where we learn how to love.
— Rick Warren
The third discipline is community. Whom do you choose as your companions? Whom do you choose to be friends with, to live with? Are they people who love you, and care for you, and nurture you?
— Henri Nouwen