Quotes about Identity

Never consider whether or not you are of use—but always consider that "you are not your own" (1 Corinthians 6:19). You are His.

Be marked and identified with God's nature, and His blessing will flow through you all the time.

Most of us fear that in growing old, we'll become a shell of ourselves. But, of course, it's the youthful versions of ourselves that are our shells; we must leave them behind like a snakeskin. We must grow out of ourselves to grow beyond our old limits, or else risk being suffocated by the sediment of our own history.

It's not right to spend money you don't have to perpetuate a lie about who you are.

The world can't decide what's beautiful. So you decide, okay?

From first days in school, we are taught to listen to everything and everyone but ourselves, to take in all our clues about living from the people and powers around us.

Europe got over the loss of its colonies much more quickly than the colonies got over their loss of Europe.

Human beings by their very nature are worshipers. Worship is not something we do; it defines who we are. You cannot divide human beings into those who worship and those who don't. Everybody worships; it's just a matter of what, or whom, we serve.

Every day you preach to yourself a gospel of your loneliness, inability, and lack of resources or you faithfully preach to yourself the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ.

In a fallen world there is a powerful pressure to constrict your life to the shape and size of your life. There is a compelling tendency to forget who you are and what you were made for. There is a tendency to be shortsighted, myopic, and easily distracted. There is a tendency to settle for less when you have been created for more. There is something expansive, glorious, and eternal that is meant to give direction to everything you do.

you become like the treasure that you seek.

Our deepest problem is that we seek to find our identity outside the story of redemption.