Quotes about Belonging

It seems that I always am and always have been an outsider. I've never really fit in. I was always too religious for my rowdy friends—they thought I was unbelievably hung up—and too rowdy for my religious friends—they were always praying for me.

Plain and simple, men need community with other men. Loving, you-before-me, dedicated relationship. If you have never had it, you don't really get it yet, and if you had that community and lost it, you know the cavity it leaves in your soul until you discover it again.

Church has to be about helping people discover what they can't get anywhere else.

Since a culture is not anything persons do, but anything they do with each other, we may say that a culture comes into being whenever persons choose to be a people. It is as a people that they arrange their rules with each other, their moralities, their modes of communication.

Then, with many false starts and blank feet, returning and filling and erasing painfully as she went, she began to write again, knowing with a deep inner certainty that somehow, after long and bitter wandering, she was once more in her own place. Here, then, at home …

And what do all the great words come to in the end, but that?—I love you—I am at rest with you—I have come home.

When you really are country, and you don't just wear it like a piece of clothing or something, you really can't get away from it. It just is who you are.

You don't need me or Gus to make you a princess. You are loved by God and that alone makes you royalty.

but leaving me out was like being kicked out of the family.

Family is the most valuable thing on earth, though Lord knows I didn't live my life with that conviction. Remember that family isn't just blood kin but anyone who fits into your heart.

Remember that family isn't just blood kin but anyone who fits into your heart.

Man created the checkerboard; God created the karass.