Quotes about Identity

The story of your life is the story of the long and brutal assault on your heart by the one who knows what you could be and fears it.

You must ask God what he thinks of you, and you must stay with the question until you have an answer. The battle will get fierce here. This is the last thing the Evil One wants you to know.

A man whose identity flows out of deep validation doesn't wilt under criticism. He enjoys applause when it comes but frankly isn't desperate for it. He can walk away from work at five o'clock; he doesn't measure his success by how much money he makes. We grow into this man, to be sure; I'm not setting a new standard of perfection. But what I am describing.

The whole, vast world was incomplete without me. Creation reached its finishing touch in me.

What have we to offer, really, other than who we are and what God has been pouring into our lives? It was not by accident that you were born; it was not by chance that you have the desires you do. The Victorious Trinity has planned on your being here now, "for such a time as this" (Esther 4:14). We need you.

You really won't understand your life as a woman until you understand this: You are passionately loved by the God of the universe. You are passionately hated by his Enemy.

The most essential gift you have to give is yourself.

And he wants you to be utterly yourself, with him.

A man's heart reflects the man... Proverbs 27:19

The nearest anyone can come to finding himself at any given age is to find a story that somehow tells him about himself.

Friend, Christ has bestowed on you an identity. The best thing you can do is ask him to reveal it to you.

And as for her beauty, she either hides it in fear and anger, or she uses it to secure her place in the world.