Quotes about Belonging

I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.

If the pretties were expected to make the supreme sacrifice in order to 'belong,' what could the unattractive female do?

The Gay, the Straight, the Preacher, The privileged, the homeless, the Teacher. They all hear The speaking of the Tree. They hear the first and last of every Tree Speak to humankind today. Come to me, here beside the River. Plant yourself beside the River.

I believe that there lives a burning desire in the most sequestered private heart of every American, a desire to belong to a great country. I believe that every citizen wants to stand on the world stage and represent a noble country where the mighty do not always crush the weak and the dream of a democracy is not the sole possession of the strong.

The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.

The unquestioning acceptance by my peers had dislodged the familiar insecurity.

In the church, we think of ourselves as all part of God's family. That means that we think of the people of where we worship as brothers and sister--part of our family. The church people have been treating us as the family members we are.

The LORD says … "Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by your name; you are Mine." Isaiah 43:1

Nothing haunts us more than our search for, finally, a sense of place. As it turns out, true belonging is found only in the sovereign palm of God. There alone we find our place, even amid the seasons of moving, planting, uprooting, and replanting. It's only when we find our place in Him that we find rest. David said it with beautiful simplicity: I am at rest in God alone. PSALM 62:1, CSB

We must not be defined by anything that has happened to us or anything we have done. We are defined by who we are in Christ.

Who does God say we are? If we've received Jesus as our personal Savior, the sum of our identity is found in 1 John 3:1: "How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called the children of God! And that is what we are!

Acknowledge that the LORD is God. He made us, and we are His— His people, the sheep of His pasture. Psalm 100:3