Quotes about Identity

It is all one continuum of Incarnation. Who we are in God is who we all are. Everything else is changing and passing away.

The True Self always has something good to say. The False Self babbles on, largely about itself.

Whenever we get defensive or go emotionally up and down, this is a sign that we are attached to a self-image.

Christians, you are Christ…for there is but One Son of God.

Your True Self is that part of you that knows who you are and whose you are, although largely unconsciously.

You are who you are in the eyes of God, nothing more and nothing less," he often said.12

There is nothing wrong with or bad about your False Self; it's simply "the identity you created for yourself

Self-worth is not created; it is discovered.

The first-half-of-life container, nevertheless, is constructed through impulse controls; traditions; group symbols; family loyalties; basic respect for authority; civil and church laws; and a sense of the goodness, value, and special importance of your country, ethnicity, and religion (as for example, the Jews' sense of their "chosenness").

People who know who they are find it the easiest to know who they aren't.

Up to now, we have not been carrying history too well, because "there stood among us one we did not recognize," "one who came after me, because he existed before me" (John 1:26, 30). He came in mid-tone skin, from the underclass, a male body with a female soul, from an often hated religion, and living on the very cusp between East and West. No one owns him, and no one ever will.

Unless and until we can enjoy this, so much of what passes for Christianity will amount to little more than well-disguised narcissism and self-referential politics. We see this phenomenon playing out in the de facto values of people who strongly identify as Christian. Often they are more racist, classist, and sexist than non-Christians. "Others can carry the burden and the pain of injustice, but not my group," they seem to say.