Quotes about Identity

what matters for each of us is the adequacy and truth of what we come to believe is the meaning of life—and therefore the source from which we derive our sense of identity, purpose, ethics and community.

Being general, the categories never address us as individuals. At best our individuality is lost in the generality. At worst, it is contradicted and denied. Such categories force us to lie on their Procrustean bed, and anything about us that doesn't fit they lop off. They trim the picture of our personalities to fit their mass-produced frames.

The West is cutting off its Jewish and Christian roots and destroying the entire root system of its culture

Biography can overwhelm philosophy in the best of us.

Our life-purpose therefore comes from two sources at once—who we are created to be and who we are called to be. Not

As theologian N. T. Wright points out, trees behave as trees, rocks as rocks and the seas as the seas, but "Only humans, it seems, have the capacity to live as something other than what they are.

We are never more completely ourselves than when we make that decision to trust in God.

Calling is not only a matter of being and doing what we are but also of becoming what we are not yet but are called by God to be.

The age of the Internet, it is said, is the age of the self and the selfie. The world is full of people full of themselves. In such an age, "I post, therefore I am.

In other words, we are never freer than when we become most ourselves, most human, most just, most excellent, and the like.

Be you because everyone else is taken!

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.