Quotes about Homecoming

‘Your brother has returned,’ he said, ‘and your father has killed the fattened calf, because he has him back safe and sound.’

But it was fitting to celebrate and be glad, because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’”

He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him.

It was time to lay his painful life upon the altar and let Jesus heal his hurt. It was time to come home.

When I enter that beautiful city, And the saints all around me appear, I hope that someone will tell me: it was you who invited me here.

God loves you so much that he's searching the wild, dark night to save you. He's moving all his furniture and tearing up the carpet simply to reach you. God is watching every moment of every day, waiting for you to return home, and when you're yet only a dot on the horizon, he'll sprint toward you, his arms flung wide and a joyous grin lighting his face.

In my lifelong study of the Bible I have looked for an overarching theme, a summary statement of what the whole sprawling book is about. I have settled on this: "God gets his family back." From the first book to the last the Bible tells of wayward children and the tortuous lengths to which God will go to bring them home. Indeed, the entire biblical drama ends with a huge family reunion in the book of Revelation.

God welcomes home anyone who will have him and, in fact, has made the first move already.

But disappointment isn't proof that God is withholding good things from us. Sometimes it's His way of leading us Home.

For the followers of Jesus, the real finish line is either the return of Jesus or our homecoming to him.

In the end, coming to faith remains for all a sense of homecoming, of picking up the threads of a lost life, of responding to a bell that had long been ringing, of taking a place at a table that had long been vacant.

Perhaps the most revolutionary act for a woman will be a self-willed journey—and to be welcomed when she comes home.