Quotes about Identity

All of us respond to life based upon who we think we are and what we think we have.

The order is essential: I am a new creation, accepted, adopted, and free; therefore I want to please God.

The Bible reminds us that God wants—and deserves—to be the defining center of both these things. When I live out of a biblical sense of who I am (identity) and rest in who God is (worship), I will be able to build a healthy relationship with you. These are not abstract theological concepts. We're talking about the content and character of our hearts.

In God's plan, this quest for personal identity is meant to drive us back to him as Creator so that we find our meaning and purpose in him.

Who you tell yourself you are has a very powerful impact on the way you deal with the big and small issues of daily life. In the same way, where you find your identity will have everything to do with how you respond to the hard work of relationships with others. Either I get my identity vertically, out of my sense of who God is and worship who he has made me in Christ, or I will seek to get my identity horizontally, out of my circumstances, relationships, and successes.

Good relationships are always built on the foundation stones of identity and worship.

When I live out of a biblical sense of who I am (identity) and rest in who God is (worship), I will be able to build a healthy relationship with you.

Either I get my identity vertically, out of my sense of who God is and worship who he has made me in Christ, or I will seek to get my identity horizontally, out of my circumstances, relationships, and successes.

Your spouse, your friends, and your children cannot be the sources of your identity.

When you seek to define who you are through those relationships, you are actually asking another sinner to be your personal messiah

Is there evidence that you are looking to your relationships to give you things you have already been given in Christ?

Worship is first an identity before it becomes an activity.