Quotes About Identity

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.

Ask Jesus to show you your beauty. Ask him what he thinks of you as a woman. His words to us let us rest and unveil our beauty.

El problema de la propia identidad no es exclusivo de los jóvenes. Es permanente. Es tal vez el problema por excelencia. Puede perseguirnos en la vejez y, cuando ya no lo hace, es que nos está indicando que estamos muertos.

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.

We're all living in the shadow of that infamous icon, "The Proverbs 31 Woman," whose life is so busy I wonder, when does she have time for friendships, for taking walks, or reading good books? Her light never goes out at night? When does she have sex? Somehow she has sanctified the shame most women live under, biblical proof that yet again we don't measure up. Is that supposed to be godly—that sense that you are a failure as a woman?

Femininity can never bestow masculinity.

The wilderness trial of Christ is, at its core, a test of his identity. "If you are who you think you are . . ." If a man is ever to find out who he is and what he's here for, he has got to take that journey for himself. He has got to get his heart back.

This is why, if you want to get to know someone, you need to know their story. Their life is a story. It, too, has a past and a future. It, too, unfolds in a series of scenes over the course of time.

When we begin to offer not merely our gifts but our true selves, that is when we become powerful.

This is every man's deepest fear: to be exposed, to be found out, to be discovered as an impostor, and not really a man.

The problem of self-identity is not just a problem for the young. It is a problem all the time. Perhaps the problem. It should haunt old age, and when it no longer does it should tell you that you are dead.

your heart is made for the kingdom of God. This might be the most important thing anyone will ever tell you about yourself: your heart only thrives in one habitat, and that safe place is called the kingdom of God.

If a man is ever to find out who he is and what he's here for, he has got to take that journey for himself. He has got to get his heart back.

aún así, hay una esencia que Dios le ha dado a cada mujer.

Let people feel the weight of who you are, and let them deal with it.

En el caso de padres silenciosos, pasivos o ausentes, la pregunta queda sin respuesta. «¿Tengo lo que se requiere? Papá, ¿soy un hombre?» Su silencio es la respuesta: «No lo sé…

By now, he was also a 'Protestant Atheist', which he remained all his life.

I was born an American, I live like an American, I will die an American.

The life of the arts, far from being an interruption, a distraction, in the life of the nation, is close to the center of a nation's purpose - and is a test to the quality of a nation's civilization.