Quotes about Identity

As such, we should pray, as Macrina Weiderkehr prayed so eloquently, "O God, help me to believe the truth about myself, no matter how beautiful.

the grace of what makes him different, is what enables him to "stand up.

What people think about God, Jesus Christ, and the Church cannot be separated from their own social and political status in a given society.

Do you fall in love with someone because you understand them? Not at nineteen. It's their otherness that draws you in. At nineteen you're collecting people. Trying on different ways of being.

At the end of life, each of us must answer the question, Whose story captured my soul?

When we experience God for who He really is, we suddenly see ourselves for who we are.

Who we are is not a question we can ask without seeking to understand the context in which we live. Biblical counselors seek to understand the influences that shape the responses of the human heart.

Paternity is a long way from fatherhood.

Wake up, dude! It's not about who you are. It's all about who God is.

Properly speaking, a culture does not have a tradition; it is a tradition.

A culture can be no stronger than its strongest myths.

Our speculations about Shakespeare are almost as multifarious and foolish as our speculations about the maker of the universe, and, like those, are frequently concerned to establish that his works were not made by him but by another person of the same name.