Quotes about Identity

I cannot be someone other than I am. How awful.

For it is God's business to create, and people's business to name.

Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface.

We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible.

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

In every aspect of our lives, we are always asking ourselves, How am I of value? What is my worth? Yet I believe that worthiness is our birthright.

Every time you suppress some part of yourself or allow others to play you small, you are in essence ignoring the owner's manual your creator gave you and destroying your design.

Though I am grateful for the blessings of wealth, it hasn't changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I'm just wearing better shoes.

You get to know who you really are in a crisis.

Calling is more than purely cultural, but it is also more than purely personal. Discover the meaning of calling and you discover the heart of the gospel itself.

Somehow we human beings are never happier than when we are expressing the deepest gifts that are truly us.

For at this juncture, the West has cut itself off from its own Jewish and Christian roots—the faith, the ideas, the ethics and the way of life that made it the West. It now stands deeply divided, uncertain of its post-Christian identity, and with its dominance waning in the global era.