Quotes about Displacement

A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person.

The gospels were all about God becoming king, but the creeds are focused on Jesus being God. It would be truly remarkable if one great truth of early Christian faith and life were actually to displace another, to displace it indeed so thoroughly that people forgot it even existed. But that's what I think has happened.

To someone from nowhere, every movement turns into a return.

But as a mountain erodes and crumbles and a rock is dislodged from its place,

The east wind carries him away, and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place.

It claps its hands at him and hisses him out of his place.

Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to foreigners.

Since you shove with flank and shoulder, butting all the weak ones with your horns until you have scattered them abroad,

The prince must not take any of the inheritance of the people by evicting them from their property. He is to provide an inheritance for his sons from his own property, so that none of My people will be displaced from his property.’”

You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, to send them far from their homeland.

Arise and depart, for this is not your place of rest, because its defilement brings destruction—a grievous destruction!

I know that war is very cruel and that life is harder when you aren't able to live in the place you called home.