Quotes about Belonging

It matters a great deal that I come from a Jewish background.

Here and there a cygnet is reared uneasily among the ducklings in the brown pond, and never finds the living stream in fellowship with its own oary-footed kind.

No child was afraid of approaching Silas when Eppie was near him: there was no repulsion around him now, either for young or old; for the little child had come to link him once more with the whole world. There was love between him and the child that blent them into one, and there was love between the child and the world

He who does not have the church as his mother does not have God as his Father.

People can live in other spheres (cf. 2:1-3), but Christians live in Christ.

It is suicide to be abroad. But what it is to be at home, ... what it is to be at home? A lingering dissolution.

If you were not strangers here, the dogs of the world would not bark at you.

There are many heads lying in Christ's bosom, but there is room for yours among the rest.

If you're not looking forward to church this morning perhaps it's time to look for a church.

You are loved, and your purpose is to love.

America's higher purpose is not just to allow you to have what you want, or to allow me to have what I want. Our higher purpose is to give everyone a fair shot at making their dreams come true. Anything that stands in the way of that will ultimately deprive all of us of the opportunities we hold most dear. For America doesn't belong to any one of us; America belongs to all of us.

You've learned something about yourself from all of this: you do not function well outside the circle of God's love.