Quotes about Identity

Life is not a thing, an essence, or a concept, but a person—more specifically, a particular and unique person.

You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.

To be loved means to be recognized as existing.

I believe that everyone, regardless of their beliefs, deserves the dignity of being called by their name.

God has shaped and crafted us internally—with a unique personality, thoughts, dreams, temperament, feelings, talents, gifts, and desires. He has planted "true seeds of self" inside of us. They make up the authentic "us." We are also deeply loved. We are a treasure.

If you are born in America with a black skin, you're in prison

For we are not pure spirits who happen to be trapped in bodies. We are not even spirits who only have bodies, for we do not have bodies as we have possessions. We are bodies as well as souls.

This understanding of God provides the key to understanding what the Bible means when it declares that humans are made "in the image of God." The imago Dei means that humans, like God, are essentially beings who exist in relationship. We are created to exist in relationship with God and with each other. To the extent that we live in isolation from God and from each other, we are not fully human.

Am I cured?" "No. You're someone who is different, but who wants to be the same as everyone else. And that, in my view, is a serious illness.

We are deeply loved by God for who we are, not for what we do.

When you can really be who you are and find out where you fit and function from a place of comfort, then you stop working. You stop wrestling.

The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.