Quotes about Identity

Often after years of deep investment into others we are shocked and disappointed that they simply didn't get who we really are.

It's miserable living someone else's life, and it is downright suffocating to live beneath your potential.

The very key to knowing your purpose is discovering and celebrating your personal identity.

Our instincts may have even guided us to hide parts of ourselves in order to keep them alive when we were younger.

Do you have any idea who you have the capacity to become? If you were not bound by the confines of your mind, who might you become?

One of his main targets is your identity.

Actually, isn't that what we want to know—our purpose? Then we can use the power to become who we really are. Life has chiseled many of us into mere fragments of who we were meant to be. To all who receive Him, Christ gives the power to slip out of who they were forced into being so they can transform into the individual they each were created to be.

It can be frightening to own your authentic self.

His absence leaves us desperately looking for someone else to "fill in the blank." If the church doesn't do it, the gay community will. If the church doesn't do it, the gangs and drug lords will. If the church doesn't do it, the pornographers will. Empty sons will always look for someone to fill in the blank left by the father who isn't there.

Let no-one define how you see yourself...save God alone. See yourself through His eyes and His strength, and you'll see who you can be despite being who you are. But see yourself through your own eyes, and you'll be left to question, and to doubt, subject to the whims and wishes of others who will not have your best at heart.

The best way to beat somebody is to show them who you are, and to succeed by doin' what they say you can't.

Once born into childlike faith, brimming with belief, typical people begin to lose their faith. Society mocks them. Their friends smirk. They come to change the world, but over time the world changes them. Soon they forget who they were; they forget the faith they once had. Then one day someone tells them the truth, but they don't want to go back, because they're comfortable in their new skin. Being a stranger in this world is never easy.