Quotes about Identity

Christianity is completed Judaism, or it is nothing.

Paul said, I am a man which am a Jew of Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, a citizen of no mean city.

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of everything.

The End of every maker is himself.

We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.

There goes a man made by the Lord Almighty and not by his tailor.

Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.

In the faces of men and women I see God and in my own face in the glass, I find letters from God dropt in the street, and every one is signed by God's name, and I leave them where they are, for I know that wheresoever I go others will punctually come for ever and ever.

"You are accepted!" ... accepted by that which is greater than you and the name of which you do not know. Do not ask the name now, perhaps you will know it later. Do not try to do anything, perhaps later you will do much. Do not seek for anything, do not perform anything, do not intend anything. Simply accept the fact that you are accepted.

The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.

It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.

A man's rootage is more important than his leafage.