Quotes about Identity

What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us." —A. W. Tozer

Sometimes in the shadows of one's self lie the problems, and in the shadows of one's shaping lie the answers.

Are we really ever completely our own person or have we been conditioned in ways beyond our own imagination?

Accepting and celebrating the thread of your own personality is the first grasp of the Grand Weaver's design in your life. You are not a number. He knows you by name.

A worshiping community should be the fountain from which life flows and the ocean into which your efforts are merged. That is where identity is defined, refined, and consolidated and where continuity remains.

We are neither just brains floating around nor just hearts bouncing about.

A society that hates laws that guard the soul despises not so much the laws as much as it despises the very thought of a soul. Those who belong to such a society consider the flesh the totality of their being.

The day that each person willingly accepts himself or herself for who he or she is and acknowledges the uniqueness of God's framing process marks the beginning of a journey to seeing the handiwork of God in each life.

We became less than what we were meant to be.

The whole teaching of Islam in its inception rested upon the creation of an identity of a people in contradistinction to Judaism and Christianity. A failure to understand the implications of all this leads to enormous misunderstandings when all religions are grouped together.

What suffering teaches us is that three blessings flow from its tutelage: (1) the blessing of an amplified testimony, (2) the blessing of a fulfilled identity, and (3) the blessing of unshakable faith and strength that never drains away.

To be a human being is to be one who is fashioned in the image of God, who is the point of reference in all relationships.