Quotes about Identity

You are not," said Norman Vincent Peale, "you are not what you think you are; but what you think, you are.

Give a dog a bad name and you may as well hang him." But give him a good name—and see what happens!

There is an old saying: 'Give a dog a bad name and you may as well hang him.' But give him a good name — and see what happens!

An obsession merely with doing all God commands may be the very thing that rules out being the kind of person that he calls us to be.

Love is not God, but God is love. It is who he is, his very identity.

Christ was not crucified so that we wouldn't have to be. He was crucified so we could be crucified with him.

Let us now be perfectly clear. Your life is not something from which you can stand aside and consider what it would have been like had you had a different one. There is no "you" apart from your actual life. You are not separate from your life, and in that life you must find the goodness of God. Otherwise, you will not believe that he has done well by you, and you will not truly be at peace with him.

We will never have the easy, unhesitating love of God that makes obedience to Jesus our natural response unless we are absolutely sure that it is good for us to be, and to be who we are. This means we must have no doubt that the path appointed for us by when and where and to whom we were born is good, and that nothing irredeemable has happened to us or can happen to us on our way to our destiny in God's full world.

Fact 1: It is okay to be who you are wherever you are.

Fact 2: What is true about you as a person is also true about your work.

it is good that you are alive: your life is good, it is good that you are who you are, and it is good that you do the work you do.

Indeed, all human troubles come from thinking of God wrongly, which then means, thinking about ourselves wrongly.