Quotes about Belonging
Because we are what we love, our identity and our dignity depend on what we love and the depth and passion with which we love.
— Mark Buchanan
Being united to Christ means being united to every Christian. But that universal union must be given a living, breathing existence in a local church.
— Mark Dever
Everyone is in a tribe, and the sooner we realize we are not each unique, like a snowflake—a special, one-of-a-kind person, just like Mama said—the sooner we will make sense of ourselves and the spiritual cul-de-sac we call home. You are likely not unique, particularly special
— Mark Driscoll
Many modern Christians will take the best programs from every church while committing to no church. They even have a name for it: "church shopping.
— Mark Driscoll
Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.
— Aristotle
A family spirit is not always synonymous with family life. Bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh makes for brothers, sisters and relatives, who may be as distant as strangers in a foreign land.
— Mother Angelica
In solitude we discover that community is not a common ideology, but a response to a common call.
— Henri Nouwen
There is no condition of life in which we cannot abide in Jesus. We have to learn to abide in Him wherever we are placed. Our Brilliant Heritage, 946 R
— Oswald Chambers
What defines us as Christians is not most profoundly that we have come to know him but that he took note of us and made us his own.
— John Piper
To belong to Jesus is to embrace the nations with Him.
— John Piper
The Bible knows nothing of solitary religion.
— John Wesley
There is no such thing as a solitary Christian.
— John Wesley