Quotes about Identity
Then we have the Gospel of John, the odd man out. John's story of Jesus is so out of step with the others that it is sometimes hard to see how he could be talking about the same person.
- Peter Enns
The root of the conflict for many Christians is not scientific or even theological, but group identity and fear of losing what it offers.
- Peter Enns
This is the secret of life: the self lives only by dying, finds its identity (and its happiness) only by self-forgetfulness, self-giving, self-sacrifice, and agape love.
- Peter Kreeft
And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and He brought them to the man to see what he would name each one. And whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.
- Genesis 2:19
And the man said: “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for out of man she was taken.”
- Genesis 2:23
“Come,” they said, “let us build for ourselves a city with a tower that reaches to the heavens, that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of all the earth.”
- Genesis 11:4
and when the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ Then they will kill me but will let you live.
- Genesis 12:12
No longer will you be called Abram, but your name will be Abraham, for I have made you a father of many nations.
- Genesis 17:5
You are to circumcise the flesh of your foreskin, and this will be a sign of the covenant between Me and you.
- Genesis 17:11
But if any male is not circumcised, he will be cut off from his people; he has broken My covenant.”
- Genesis 17:14
She replied, “I am the daughter of Bethuel, the son that Milcah bore to Nahor.”
- Genesis 24:24
Then I asked her, ‘Whose daughter are you?’ She replied, ‘The daughter of Bethuel son of Nahor, whom Milcah bore to him.’ So I put the ring on her nose and the bracelets on her wrists.
- Genesis 24:47