Quotes about Identity
Something was withheld . . . We found it was ourselves.
— Robert Frost
Mrs. Hammon told me that God made my hair red on purpose and I haven't card for him since.
— LM Montgomery
A positive self-image has little relationship to our material circumstances.
— Ezra Taft Benson
But, you see, it's not what you do that matters really. It's only you.""Me what?""Just you here. Or you in the city. Or you somewhere in the world. I don't know. Just that.
— Ayn Rand
Religion: 'My identity is built on being a good person.' Gospel: 'My identity is not built on my record or my performance but on Christ's.'
— Timothy Keller
The important thing is neither your nationality nor the religion you professed, but how your faith translated itself in your life.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Beneath our clothes, our reputations, our pretensions, beneath our religion or lack of it, we are all vulnerable both to the storm without and the storm within.
— Frederick Buechner
I had given up practising my Jewish religion when I was a 14-year-old girl and did not begin to feel Jewish again until I had returned to God.
— Edith Stein
If it weren't for Christians, I'd be a Christian.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I need Christ, not something that resembles Him.
— CS Lewis
You don't bring glory or pleasure to God by hiding your abilities or by trying to be someone else. You only bring him enjoyment by being you.
— Rick Warren
When a dog barks at the moon, then it is religion; but when he barks at strangers, it is patriotism!
— David Starr Jordan