Quotes about Identity

If people in this country think of Africa as a place with kids and flies swarming around their heads, then they won't understand that these people are you and you are them.

Every school that I have ever attended, except for kindergarten, I went to a Catholic institution.

I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.

I have the words 'love' and 'life' on my knuckles, and I would half like those removed.

I don't really remember much about Kosovo. I only remember growing up in London, where my parents had to basically start from scratch.

Christianity is a lifestyle. And being a Christian is more than a label.

Faith is never identical with "piety" even if it were the purest and finest.

It would be all right if I could pray in this way, or in that other way, if I were just able to give You the only thing You want: not my thoughts and feelings and resolutions, but myself. But that is just what I am unable to do, because in the superficiality of the ordinary routine into which my life is cast, I am a stranger to myself. And how can I seek You, being so distant, how can I give myself up to You, when I haven't been able as yet to find myself?

it may feel as if they just want you to stop being you.

A mask partially conceals, but it also tells us that something is behind the mask.

I no longer call you servants,…I have called you friends."14 Servants is a "doing" word; friends is a "being" word. What do servants do? They cook, clean, et cetera. A friend, however, is something you are, not something you do. A servant is Martha, a friend is Mary.

The marriage relationship allows us to experientially identify with God and his relationship with Israel.