Quotes about Identity

I know who I am, I know what I believe, that's all I need to know. From there, you do what you need to do.

Our confidence needs to come from within, not without. From the quality of our hearts, not the quantity of things we own. After all, he who dies with the most toys...still dies.

I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.

My greatest ambition is to have a career without becoming a career woman.

Every man has his own courage and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

I wonder if we have a lot of sons running around saying, "I want a Dad." But you won't abide in anyone.

After you die, you wear what you are.

Sociologists have a theory of the looking-glass self. You become what the most important person in your life (wife, father, boss, etc.) thinks you are. How would my life change if I truly believed the Bible's astounding words about God's love for me, if I looked in the mirror and saw what God sees?

On a trip to Russia I bought one of those Matryoshka "nested dolls" that break apart at the waist to reveal smaller and smaller dolls inside…it occurred to me to me later that each of us, like the nested dolls, contains multiple selves, making us a mysterious combination of good and evil, wisdom and folly, reason and instinct… (pp.80)

a sick person is not a sick person, but rather a person of worth and value who happens to have some bodily parts that are not functioning well.

My identity in Christ is more important than my identity as an American or as a Coloradan or as a white male or as a Protestant. Church is the place where I celebrate that new identity and work it out in the midst of people who have many differences but share this one thing in common. We are charged to live out a kind of alternative society before the eyes of the watching world, a world that is increasingly moving toward tribalism and division.

Grace teaches us that God loves because of who God is, not because of who we are.