Quotes about Identity

We aren't only called to become Christians; we are also called to be Christians.

You will never know the peace with God, peace of conscience, peace of mind, and peace of soul until you stand at the foot of the cross and identify yourself with Christ by faith . . . this is peace with God.

Too many so-called Christians are like the little chameleon which adapts its coloration to that of its surroundings. Even a critical world is quick to recognize a real Christian and just as quick to detect a counterfeit.

There is a great identity crisis among students today. Who am I? What is the purpose of life? Where did I come from? Where am I going? The Bible has a direct answer to this great big philosophical question and unless God seals the vacuum among youth today, then some other ideology will, because young people must have a faith. They must believe in something to find fulfillment in their lives.

There are three of you. There is the person you think you are. There is the person others think you are. There is the person God knows you are and can be through Christ.

Our society has traded strength of character for makeovers that deceive.

Just because a person claims to be a Christian does not necessarily mean that he is one.

Those who believe [in Christ] are expected to be different from the world... they are members of a new society.

Christians are expected to carry the marks of the Lord Jesus, not adapt to the fashionable counterculture driven by marketing traps.

God is concerned with our imaginations, for they in a large measure determine what kind of persons we are to be.

Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car.

You have to be someone.