Quotes about Identity

If you don't know where to start, remember that every single thing that happened to you is yours and you get to tell it.

Remember that you own what happened to you.

Will call him a she when the pee-pee is gone. Says Brave is to endure stares, jeers, prejudice. He won't.

I started to get found, to discover who I had been born to be, instead of the impossibly small package, all tied up tightly in myself, that I had agreed to be.

Goodness and courage are how the divine presents itself so often—whether in drag, as close friends, or as EMTs.

It's human nature to be weird, but also human to be lonely. This conflict between fitting in and standing out is at the core of who we are.

Sooner or later, each of us becomes (for a while) the kind of person who believes in the reptile people that control the earth. We're seeking our own little pocket of uniqueness.

We've gone from all of us being everyone to all of us being no one.

It should be called "a culture" or "this culture," because there is no universal culture, no "us" that defines all of us.

We can be frozen by the chaos we feel inside instead of choosing to stand on the truth of who God's Word says we are. We must not give our enemy such advantages. We must not live that way one moment longer. It's time to trade what we feel for the powerful truth of who we are. How we feel can change in a moment, but who we are is eternal.

It almost seems as though some very intentional, finely tuned plot against us intends to rob us of who we are in Christ.

He who lives in us is greater! Sometimes we forget that we do not fight against flesh and blood, but against principalities and evil powers (Ephesians 6:12). We desperately need to remember whose we are and how to fight.