Quotes about Identity
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
The heart of religion lies in its personal pronouns.
— Martin Luther
Spirituality is meant to take us beyond our tribal identity into a domain of awareness that is more universal.
— Deepak Chopra
What looks like politics, and imagines itself to be political, will one day unmask itself as a religious movement.
— Soren Kierkegaard
All I ever have to be is what you made me.
— Amy Grant
Does a person have a right to change his or her own religion? This is a fundamental human right, just like a right to freedom of speech.
— Miroslav Volf