Quotes about Identity

What we do is not as important as what we are. Our functionalistic modern society tends to reduce our being to our function. What is the first question we ask about someone? "What does he do?" But love never asks that question first. The first question for love is always "Who are you?" rather than "What do you do?" Being is prior to doing, and love's realism refuses to reverse that real order.

are more like Dog and Cat and Bird than like Lassie and Fido and Spot. Therefore

For we are not pure spirits who happen to be trapped in bodies. We are not even spirits who only have bodies, for we do not have bodies as we have possessions. We are bodies as well as souls.

Between 50 and 75% of entering freshmen at large Catholic universities typically identify themselves as believing and practicing Catholics. Only 25-50% of graduating seniors do the same.

When God changed someone's name in Scripture, He changed their destiny: Abram to Abraham, Jacob to Israel, Simon to Peter.

angelism, confusing man with an angel by denying his likeness to animals, and animalism, confusing man with an animal by denying his likeness to angels.

Even today, we must choose. Will we be marked as God's own in our hearts and in our actions? Or will we be marked as Satan's own? Will we stand for Christ, His Son, no matter the personal cost?

It reminds us of a statement attributed to Voltaire: "God created man in His own image, and man has been trying to return the favor ever since".

Britannia became the land of the Angles or Ængla Land.

When I've been asked what should be on my gravestone, I've said: 'Here lies Gandalf. He came out.' Two big achievements.

I'm black. I've been black all my life, and as far as I know, I'll die black.

You can't be all things to all people.