Quotes about Identity
Shame is the deep sense that you are unacceptable because of something you did, something done to you, or something associated with you. You feel exposed and humiliated. Or, to strengthen the language, You are disgraced because you acted less than human, you were treated as if you were less than human, or you were associated with something less than human, and there are witnesses.
— Edward Welch
What is most important is that you look away from yourself to the true God. No matter who you are or where you are from, you will be able to know him and worship him. And when you worship him, it means you are accepted into his presence.
— Edward Welch
What is shame? God identifies it. God experienced it. You are not alone.
— Edward Welch
A lingering sense that something was very wrong with him. That sense is called shame.
— Edward Welch
If you feel ugly you will experience shame. The two are bound together.
— Edward Welch
Shame can be removed, and you can still be you. Despite your feeling that your destiny and shame's destiny are identical—that if shame no longer exists, you won't either—the reality is that you will be more you without shame.
— Edward Welch
When you have to manage the world, please everyone, earn more than you did last year, and work off five pounds, you will be driven. If not, you run the risk of being un-American or even un-Christian because our economy and churches rely on such people. Even when paralyzed by circumstances, a stressed person is a driven person.
— Edward Welch
If you want to know more about yourself, turn to Jesus.
— Edward Welch
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
— Albert Camus
The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.
— Aldous Huxley
I am I, and I wish I weren't.
— Aldous Huxley
No, we are not anti-white. But we don't have time for the white man. The white man is on top already, the white man is the boss already... He has first-class citizenship already. So you are wasting your time talking to the white man. We are working on our own people.
— Malcolm X