Quotes About Identity

Only when I focus on the holiness and glory of God am I able to see myself with accuracy.

When the thing you have been trusting (whether you knew it or not) is laid to waste, you don't suffer just the loss of that thing; you also suffer the loss of the identity and security that it provided.

Either you will be getting your identity vertically, from who you are in Christ, or you will be shopping for it horizontally in the situations, experiences, and relationships of your daily life.

We are hardwired for glory because we are hardwired for God.

I am designed to appreciate beautiful things, but I must not attach my identity to how many of those things I possess, and I must not let my heart be ruled by

You are always looking for something to which you can attach your identity, your hopes and dreams, and your inner peace.

Midlife doesn't introduce you to a new you; it forces you to admit who you have been all along.

the struggle of midlife is fundamentally rooted in the idolatries of the heart.

in these moments of challenge the people of God would panic because they were identity amnesiacs. They would forget who they were as the children of God and they would forget who God is in all his almighty power and glory.

Without knowing it, we put our identity and inner peace in the hands of the people around us. We look to them for what no flawed human being will ever be able to deliver. We ride the roller coaster of their views of us. We begin to do things not because they are right, but because we know they will please those whose opinion of us and acceptance of us mean more than they should.

Usted es un hijo del Rey de Reyes y vive bajo la sombra de Sus alas. Usted es parte de Su plan. Eso significa que el ejercicio de Su poder y autoridad es para bendición suya.

You were put here for the purpose of the glory of another. This is not a lifestyle option; it is in the very nature of your humanity. To live for yourself is to rob yourself of your own humanity. It is only in living for Christ that we actually begin to become what we were meant to be.

Being a worshiper means that you attach your identity, your meaning and purpose, and your inner sense of well-being to something. You either get these things vertically (from the Creator) or you look to get them horizontally (from the creation). This insight has everything to do with how a marriage becomes what it is. No marriage will be unaffected when the people in the marriage are seeking to get from the creation what they were only ever meant to get from the Creator.

Here it is: if you are God's child, the life force that energizes your thoughts, desires, words, and actions is no longer you; it's Christ! God didn't just forgive you. No, he has come to live inside of you so you will have the power to desire and do what he calls you to do.

It's only when my heart is captured by the awe of God that I will view my identity rightly.

The gospel of Jesus Christ must not be just an aspect of your theology. It must not be relegated to the "religious" dimension of your life. Your relationship with God through Jesus Christ is your life. It touches and alters every aspect of your existence; it redefines your identity. It infuses your life with new meaning and purpose, and it completely reshapes your destiny.

When we say that God designed human beings to be interpreters, we are getting to the heart of why human beings do what they do. Our thinking conditions our emotions, our sense of identity, our view of others, our agenda for the solution of our problems, and our willingness to receive counsel from others. That is why we need a framework for generating valid interpretations that help us respond to life appropriately. Only the words of the Creator can give us that framework.

Pastor, no tienes que tener miedo de lo que está en tu corazón y no tienes que tener miedo a que te conozcan porque no hay nada en ti, que pudiera salir a la luz, que no haya ya sido cubierto por la preciosa sangre de tu rey Salvador, Jesús.

Nuestros pensamientos condicionan nuestras emociones, nuestro sentido de identidad, nuestro punto de vista de los demás, nuestra agenda para la solución de nuestros problemas, y nuestra disposición para recibir consejo de otros.

the identity we assign to ourselves shapes and defines the way that we live our lives.

la gracia del evangelio no busca cambiar los aspectos religiosos de nuestras vidas; más bien busca cambiar todas las cosas que nos definen y nos motivan

If you have been freed from needing success and acclaim to feel good about yourself, you know grace has visited you.

your acceptance is based on Christ's righteousness and not yours.

Every year thousands of supposedly Christian young people go off to residential universities and forsake the faith. I would propose to you that they are not forsaking the faith at all. They never had it in the first place. They grew up under a system of control that forced the faith upon them, but when they get to college and the system vanishes, their true hearts reveal themselves.