Quotes about Identity

A lot of jobs don't allow you to be who you are. There is dignity in work only when it is work freely accepted.

The child of God works not for life, but from life; he does not work to be saved, but works because he is saved

You are both a work of art and an artist at work.

What we are is much more important to Him than what we do for Him. We mean far more to God than the work we do.

I still close my eyes and go home - I can always draw from that.

We've stood by who we are and we didn't listen to anyone else.

I could never give up athletics. Running is what I will always do. Even if, maybe, the authorities could have stopped me from running in 2009, they could not have stopped me in the fields. I would have carried on with my running; it doesn't matter. When I run I feel free, my mind is free.

I remember trying to turn one of my Barbies into Storm, and I melted her hair off.

I was asked by an NPR reporter once why don't I talk about race that often. I said, 'It's because I'm a neurosurgeon.' And she thought that was a strange response... I said, 'You see, when I take someone to the operating room, I'm actually operating on the thing that makes them who they are. The skin doesn't make them who they are.'

When you seek to define who you are through those relationships, you are actually asking another sinner to be your personal messiah, to give you the inward rest of soul that only God can give. Only when I have sought my identity in the proper place (in my relationship with God) am I able to put you in the proper place as well. When I relate to you knowing that I am God's child and the recipient of his grace, I am able to serve and love you.

Christ gives us all we need to draw nearer to him and enjoy him amid difficulties and blessings. We may get tired, but not despondent. We will be sad, but not hopeless. We will endure pain, but we will not give up. We will enjoy blessings, but not grow proud. We see that our lives do not consist only in what we have, how we feel, or what we have accomplished, but in who we are in Christ. This enables us to stand where we would once have fallen down.

Words separate you from the rest of creation, making you more like God than like animals.