Quotes about Identity

deviant soccer moms in Minnesota.

All dressed up with nowhere to go. Walking with a dead man over my shoulder. Don't run away, it's only me.…

Weil ich keinen Bock habe, in einen übergewichtigen Kerl verknallt zu sein, der Chuck heißt und in irgendeinem Vorort von Detroit bei seiner Mutter im Keller lebt.

For me, growing up as a human being on the planet Earth in the twenty-first century was a real kick in the teeth.

Passion was passion and love was love, regardless of who the participants involved were, or what sort of body they were assigned at birth.

That's the first rule of online romances, pal. No one ever looks anything like their avatar.

The more isolated and disconnected we are, the more shattered and distorted our self-identity. We are not healthy when we are alone. We find ourselves when we connect to others. Without community we don't know who we are... When we live outside of healthy community, we not only lose others. We lose ourselves...Who we understand ourselves to be is dramatically affected for better or worse by those we hold closest to us.

I myself am made up of so many people.

Self is the soul minus God.

We care more for our possessions with which we hope to make our way in the world than with our thoughts and dreams which tell us who we are in the world.

My identity does not begin when I begin to understand myself. There is something previous to what I think about myself, and it is what God thinks of me. That means that everything I think and feel is by nature a response, and the one to whom I respond is God. I never speak the first word. I never make the first move.

Congregation is composed of people, who, upon entering a church, leave behind what people on the street name or call them. A church can never be reduced to a place where goods and services are exchanged. It must never be a place where a person is labeled. It can never be a place where gossip is perpetuated. Before anything else, it is a place where a person is named and greeted, whether implicitly or explicitly, in Jesus's name. A place where dignity is conferred.