Quotes about Identity

He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.

We are all Judas. Even eighty generations later we are still Judas.

I wanted to go free, to be liberated once and for all from these two enemies, the body and the soul. I wanted to be a cloud. To be a stone on the surface of the moon.

I will always be the virgin-prostitute, the perverse angel, the two-faced sinister and saintly woman.

If I bear the name of another, I have given up my own name and my own independent life.

The image he bears decides his destiny.

That humility has taken up its abode in us; and become our very nature; that we actually, like Christ, have made ourselves of no reputation.

When feeling says, 'In myself, I am sinful; I am dark; I am weak; I am poor; I am sad;' let faith say. 'In Christ, I am holy; I am light; I am strong; I am rich; I am joyful.

Nisbet recognized that communities that serve important social functions in our lives, such as families and parishes and social clubs, give structure to our day-to-day living, and thus contribute to our identity. But when the functions of these communities fade or are replaced, such as by the government, their strength as identity-forming institutions fades as well.

Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.

Now, I was, as they said, become godly; now I was become a right honest man. But, oh! when I understood that these were their words and opinions of me, it pleased me mighty well. For though, as yet, I was nothing but a poor painted Hypocrite, yet I loved to be talked of as one that was truly godly. I was proud of my Godliness, and, indeed, I did all I did, ether to be seen of, or to be well spoken of, by Man.

My name is now Christian, but my name used to be Graceless.