Quotes about Identity

Mine': what does this word mean? Not what belongs to me, but what I belong to, what contains my whole being, which is mine only so far as I belong to it. My God is not the God that belongs to me, but the God to whom I belong; and so, too, when I say my native land, my home, my calling, my longing, my hope. If there had been no immortality before, this thought that I am yours would be a breach of the normal course of nature." —Johannes the Seducer, from_Either/Or_

Your identity is firmly anchored in Christ's accomplishment, not yours; his strength, not yours; his performance, not yours; his victory, not yours.

True beauty is knowing who you are and believing in yourself. Happy people know their purpose, have courage to fight for it and strength to keep going.

...and that visibility which makes us most vulnerable is that which also is the source of our greatest strength.

Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves.

Security represents your sense of worth, your identity, your emotional anchorage, your self-esteem, your basic personal strength or lack of it.

Let me tell your something. I'm from Chicago. I don't break.

The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals. Strength enters just as much as the moral element prevails.

No matter what you've been through, no matter what others might have thought about you...you are who God says you are. You are talented, you are a success, and you are an overcomer!

We will be ourselves and free, or die in the attempt. Harriet Tubman was not our great-grandmother for nothing.

You know some of the people in The Strokes, yeah, their parents had success - but we didn't live like yuppies.

Whoever knows you when you are young can look inside you and see the person you once were, and maybe still are at certain times.