Quotes about Identity

The church becomes a community called atonement every time it reads the story of Jesus and every time it identifies itself with that story and every time it invites others to listen in to hear that story. Reading Scripture and listening to Scripture and letting Scripture incorporate us into its story is atoning.

Let your life speak.

David Brooks, commenting on the workplace, once said, "Never underestimate the power of the environment you work in to gradually transform who you are. When you choose to work at a certain company, you are turning yourself into the sort of person who works in that company

All of this leads us to one central question for our own lives today: How much of our faith is tied to our own nation and its power?

Not only that, Jesus finds all the "wrong" people on God's side and all the "right" people against God.

The test results also suggest that, even though we like to think we are becoming more like Jesus, the reverse is probably more the case: we try to make Jesus like ourselves. Which means, to one degree or another, we are all Rorschachers; we all project onto Jesus our own image.

Babylon will never be the new Jerusalem; it cannot be Christianized.

It takes time to become myself every morning.

In the acting game, you spend a long time fighting against what the director perceives you to be. And half the time the directors don't know.

I hope people'll find out pretty quickly that the guy they saw for 10 years was my sense of humor the whole time.

I met my father for the first time when I was 28 years old. I made up my mind that when I had children, my children were going to know who their father was.

Now the white man's time is over. Tokenism will not help him, and it will doom us. Complete separation will save us - and who knows, it might make God decide to give the white devil a few more years.