Quotes about Belonging
I choose L'Arche; L'Arche chooses me. I would be dead if I weren't here. I need people to love me and care for me.
— Henri Nouwen
I found me a place where I can do good without doing any harm, and I can see I'm doing good, and them I'm doing good for know I'm doing it, and they love me, Unk, as best they can. I found me a home.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
We need others. We need others to love and we need to be loved by them.
— Leo Buscaglia
You are loved, and your purpose is to love.
— Marianne Williamson
The Holy Spirit lives inside you and repeatedly whispers, "Have confidence—you're part of God's family now.
— Bill Hybels
Jesus' mission is most affirmed when wanderers come home.
— Bill Hybels
They were truly new people. No longer Forest People, certainly not the Horde. They were outcasts. They were the chosen. Those who had died. Those who lived.
— Ted Dekker
When the world hates you, remember that it hated me first. If you belonged to the world, it would love you. But you do not belong to the world. I have brought you out of the world and that is why it hates you.
— Ted Dekker
Wherefore we be not only His by His buying, but also by the courteous gift of His Father we be His bliss, we be His meed, we be His worship, we be His crown. (And this was a singular marvel and a full delectable beholding, that we be His crown!)
— Julian of Norwich
Humans live best when each has a place to stand, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things and what he may achieve. Destroy the place and you destroy the person.
— Frank Herbert
Humans live best when each has his place, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things. Destroy the place and destroy the person.
— Frank Herbert
The grace of God means something like Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you. Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid. I am with you. Nothing can ever separate us. It's for you I created the universe. I love you. There's only one catch. Like any other gift, the gift of grace can be yours only if you'll reach out and take it. Maybe being able to reach out and take it is a gift too.
— Frederick Buechner