Quotes About Identity

[T]hough of all poses a moral pose is the most offensive, still to have a pose at all is something.

I have never admitted that I am more than twenty-nine, or thirty at the most. Twenty-nine when there are pink shades, thirty when there are not.

Be you because everyone else is taken!

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

I can't find my mother

You become that which you think you are. Or, it is not that you become it, but that the idea gets very deeply rooted - and that's what all conditioning is.

a ship could be built entirely from foreign planks, but it must have its own form

The wolfhound century leaps at my shoulders, But I am no wolf by blood.

I find, in being black, a thing of beauty: a joy a strength a secret cup of gladness.

Si pudiera me gustaría escribir con amor; pero si pudiera escribir con amor sería un hombre distinto al que soy.

The touchstone of the Holy Spirit's work in us is the answer to our Lord's question: "Who do men say that the Son of Man is?" Our Lord makes human destiny depend on that one thing, Who men say He is, because the revelation of Who Jesus is is only given by the Holy Spirit.

But the most impossible thing for you is to be so closely identified with the Lord that there is literally nothing of your old life remaining.

The transfiguration was completed on the Mount of Ascension. If Jesus had gone to heaven directly from the Mount of Transfiguration, He would have gone alone. He would have been nothing more to us than a glorious Figure. But He turned His back on the glory, and came down from the mountain to identify Himself with fallen humanity.

The Lord's questions always reveal the true me to myself.

Am I continually in touch with the reality of God, or do I pray only when things have gone wrong—when there is some disturbance in my life? I must learn to identify myself closely with my Lord in ways of holy fellowship and oneness that some of us have not yet even begun to learn. "I must be about My Father's business"—and I must learn to live every moment of my life in my Father's house.

Being a disciple means deliberately identifying yourself with God's interests in other people. Jesus says, "A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another" (John 13:34–35). The true expression of Christian character is not in good- doing, but in God-likeness.

God does not tell you what He is going to do--He reveals to you who He is.

Sanctification is not something Jesus puts in me—it is Himself in me (see 1 Corinthians 1:30).

I must take time to worship the One whose name I bear.

Substitution is always twofold—not only is Jesus Christ identified with my sin, but I am so identified with Him that the disposition which ruled Him is in me.

Remember whose you are and whom you serve.