Quotes about Identity

As you search for your calling, do you attempt to find someone He is using in exactly the same way? Stop! Of the six billion people on this planet, that person may not exist—because God is creative.

Even if we have known Christ in a purely human way, yet now we no longer know Him like that. 2 Corinthians 5:16

For you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry out, "Abba, Father!" Romans 8:15

All the nouns—the people, places, and things—I've believed were inseparable from who I was have been strategically targeted by God. Over the years, He has sought to supplant them with Christ alone. They weren't cast aside as worthless any more than the land was relegated to meaninglessness for the people of God. They had their role, but they simply weren't Jesus.

These were the names of the men Moses sent to scout out the land, and Moses renamed Hoshea son of Nun, Joshua. Numbers 13:16

How has Paul kept his wonder? He never forgot who he had been.

Who are you— anyone who talks back to God? Romans 9:20

You do matter, already. Without making one single change.

I like how it presented this contradiction because traditionally gay people have been shut out from the church, so 'Sanctify' was claiming a bit of that back and saying, 'My sexuality is holy.'

By its birth, and for all time, Christianity is pledged to the Cross and dominated by the sign of the Cross. It cannot remain its own self except by identifying itself ever more intensely with the essence of the Cross.

Scales always lie. They don't make a scale that ever told the truth about value, about worth, about significance.

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.