Quotes about Identity

People change,' she said 'Oh, no they don't. Look at me. I've never changed. It's like those sticks of rock: bite it all the way down, you'll still read Brighton. That's human nature.

He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness - the sense that is where we really belong.

I had seen the flowers on her dress beside the canals in the north, she was indigenous like a herb, and I never wanted to go home.

Christ had died for this man too: how could he pretend with his pride and lust and cowardice to be any more worthy of that death than the half-caste

If I eliminate everything, how will I exist?

To be in love is to see yourself as someone else sees you, it is to be in love with the falsified and exalted image of yourself. In love we are incapable of honour—the courageous act is no more than playing a part to an audience of two.

Hatred is in my brain, not in my stomach or my skin. It can't be removed like a rash or an ache. Didn't I hate you as well as love you? And don't I hate myself?

Jesus asked, "But what about you? … Who do you say I am?" (Matt. 16:15 NIV).

Far too often, unbelievers know Christians only for what we stand against, not what we stand for.

Jesus never allowed himself to be defined by the political conflicts of his day, and neither should we.

We tend to become the decisions we make. The more we choose something, the more we become that something. We are all in the process of solidifying our identities by the decisions we make. With each decision we make, we pick up momentum in the direction of that decision.

At that moment they ceased being human beings and began to be human doings.