Quotes about Identity
I've been an evangelistic Baptist all my life and still am to some degree.
— Jimmy Carter
You may have failed, but you are not a failure. That's what you did. That's not who you are.
— Joel Osteen
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
— Mark Twain
An awful realization that I have been fooling myself all my life thinking there was a next thing to do to keep the show going and actually I'm just a sick clown and so is everybody else...
— Jack Kerouac
Our state cannot be sever'd; we are one, one flesh; to lose thee were to lose myself.
— John Milton
Christ has taken our nature into heaven to represent us, and has left us on earth with his nature to represent him.
— John Newton
I am disappointed with myself. I am disappointed not so much with the particular things I have done as with the aspects of who I have become. I have a nagging sense that all is not as it should be.
— John Ortberg
When asked to identify what the law is about, Jesus' response was simply "Love God, love people." He named a fundamentally different way of identifying who are the children of God: "Do they love God, and do they love the people who mean so much to him?
— John Ortberg
We are all worms. But I do believe that I am a glowworm. WINSTON CHURCHILL
— John Ortberg
The choices we make within the boundaries of the twists of fate determines who we are
— John Perkins
What defines us as Christians is not most profoundly that we have come to know him but that he took note of us and made us his own.
— John Piper
We are more than a collection of appetites - we are of God.
— John Piper