Quotes About Identity

God is the collective ego of the world

When we choose a god we choose one as much like ourselves as possible, or even more so!

Without my airplane I am an ordinary man, and a useless one - a trainer without a horse, a sculptor without marble, a priest without a god. Without an airplane I am a lonely consumer of hamburgers.

I looked around at us all: me in my nightgown, Kiyo bare-chested, Dorian in his extravagant robes, and Tim in his Native getup. God, I muttered, standing up, we all look like the village people.

Apollo?" I guessed… He put a finger to his lips. "I'm incognito. Call me Fred." A god named Fred?

God is far more interested in what you are than who you are.

Many people confuse religion with God and walk away from them both. The point isn't Christianity, the point is being a Christian.

We shape our God, and then our God shapes us.

A man is what he is on his knees before God, and nothing more.

Although we have not assigned God a sexual orientation, a height, or eye color, we have thought nothing of assigning a gender and a religion (God always belongs to the same one we do).

To me, the Virgen de Guadalupe is just a vessel for me to recognize my own God within myself.

If my Catholic boyfriend and I ever have a kid, we'll just be honest with it. We'll say that Mommy is one of God's chosen people, and Daddy believes that Jesus is magic!

The Self is you. It is everything. It is God. That is who you really are.

You are God. You are not the ego. You are God!

I do believe in Jesus as wholly God and wholly human, and I believe the human part was human.

I look at my hands and go, 'Hmm...what happened? Whose hands are those? Oh my God, they're mine'

My first record had just broken, and these guys wanted my autograph. I thought, Oh, god, they recognize me. Turns out they thought I was Heidi Fleiss.

(Kiara sees Carlos' bleeding face)"Carlos! Oh my God, what happened?" "You still recognize me with a busted-up face. That's a good sign, right?

No human on God's earth is a nobody.

Let us shun everything, which might tend to efface the primitive lineaments of our individuality. Let us reflect that each one of us is a thought of God.

I just wish that God or my parents or Sam or my sister or someone would just tell me what's wrong with me. Just tell me how to be different in a way that makes sense. To make this all go away.

I was born Jewish, but I am an atheist. I dont believe in God.

As image-bearers of God, human beings likewise create in ways that reflect our identity.

Who God is and what Christ did have huge implications for who we are personally and what we desire sexually.