Quotes about Identity
We do not know ourselves aright, Until we have the Father's light. We think we know ourselves and groan, Until we know as we are known
— John Piper
When you are the majority ethnicity, nothing you do is ethnic. It's just the way it's done. When you are a minority, everything you do has color.
— John Piper
What you love determines what you feel shame about. If you love for men to make much of you, you will feel shame when they don't. But if you love for men to make much of Christ, then you will feel shame if he is belittled on your account.
— John Piper
We weren't meant to be somebody--we were meant to know Somebody
— John Piper
I went to America to convert the Indians; but oh! who shall convert me?
— John Wesley
What you are as a person is far more important that what you are as a basketball player.
— John Wooden
Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.
— John Wooden
It's worth pointing out that Renate didn't just marry a gay drug addict. That would have been bad enough. But she married a gay drug addict whose life was about to go haywire in ways he hadn't previously thought possible.
— Elton John
Nelly, I am Heathcliff - he's always, always in my mind - not as a pleasure, any more then I am always a pleasure to myself - but, as my own being.
— Emily Bronte
One of the great strengths of the United States is... we have a very large Christian population - we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.
— Barack Obama
And I will do everything that I can as long as I am President of the United States to remind the American people that we are one nation under God, and we may call that God different names but we remain one nation.
— Barack Obama
The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.
— Barack Obama