Quotes about Identity

Why Am I Afraid To Tell You Who I Am?

According to Earnie Larsen and others, the two deepest desires most people have are: to love and be loved, and to believe they are worthwhile and know someone else believes that also.1

Enough is enough. It's time to stop running. I miss myself. I want to get comfortable in my own skin. I want my soul back. I want to go home.

Who we are right now is okay.

I think we all need to learn to like ourselves-just the way we are. And if there are moderate ways to improve our looks and if we're doing it for the right reasons (not to impress our friends!), then maybe it's just fine. Beauty is very subjective-meaning that it all depends on your personal taste. I think that's why God made us all different. So instead of turning ourselves into cookie-cutter images of the latest fashion icon, why not take a moment to enjoy our differences?

God will put you in a position to wrestle with your identity and choose whom you believe: Him or you.

God is who He says He is. God can do what He says He can do. I am who God says I am. I can do all things through Christ. God's Word is alive and active in me.

Without Christ, every woman has intense insecurities. Unless we find our identity in Him, we Christian women can be just as prone to insecurities about our appearance as unbelievers. To Christ, the most beautiful person on earth is the one making preparation to meet the Groom.

More than any other faith challenge I face, believing that I am who God says I am necessitates choosing what God says over what I feel.

Jesus is the only outsider who truly knows the insider our skin keeps veiled.

When God's Word is deliberately internalized, it will be authentically externalized because it's no longer what we do—it's part of who we are.

God does not save us to make us forget our heritage, but to complete it.