Quotes About Identity

So that was Jack's passage into manhood. He was dishonest with the girl he loved. Manhood means learning who you are.

I believe what I believe is what makes me what I am

Would I be any less real if I lived only in your mind?

All nations teach their children to be "patriotic", and abuse the other nations for fostering nationalism.

My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.

We all perform. It's what we do for each other all the time, deliberately or unintionally. It's a way of telling about ourselves in the hope of being recognized as what we'd like to be.--PERFORMANCE

the church is to find its identity and vocation by recognizing its role within the cosmic drama of God's reconciliation of the world to himself.

When human beings engage in homosexual activity, they enact an outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual reality: the rejection of the Creator's design.

When the topic of pseudonymous composition arises, I like to ask my students whether all those albums issued under the name of Bob Dylan for the last fifteen years can possibly be the work of the same person who performed "Highway 61 Revisited.")

John Barclay has well summarized the ethical issue at stake: "The problem here is not legalism (in the sense of earning merit before God) but cultural imperialism—regarding Jewish identity and Jewish customs as the essential tokens of membership in the people of God.

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah.

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is . . . impossible.

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but that mark of a fake messiah.

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.

You have the freedom to be yourself, your true self, here and now, and nothing can stand in your way".

Jonathan sighed. The price of being misunderstood, he thought. They call you devil or they call you god.

Because if you don't have someone to run out of town once in a while, how are you going to know you yourself belong there?

If there is an after, I hope it's not dark. And I hope you can remember. I'd hate to wander around in the dark forever, not knowing who I was or what I was doin' here, or not even knowing that I'd ever had anything different.

Jensen var det enda svarta alter ego jag hade. Han föddes svart eftersom pappa hade fördomar mot svarta. Han föddes in i mig så att jag kunde utveckla uppskattning för alla möjliga sorters människor. Han gav mig perspektiv så att jag inte skulle bli fördomsfull som pappa. Jensen läste om sin ras och gav sig själv ett slavnamn från sjuttonhundratalet. Med kunskapen Jensen gav mig, har jag förståelse för rashistoria och kamp.

Why be your real self when you can be something really worthwhile?

The profoundest points of New Testament Christology occur when the inclusion of the exalted Christ in the divine identity entails the inclusion of the crucified Christ in the divine identity, and when the christological pattern of humiliation and exaltation is recognized as revelatory of God, indeed as the definitive revelation of who God is.

We can answer the question "Who is God?" only by attending to who God has revealed himself to be.

This means that "meeting the current toward elimination of names is the counter current of late development, which . . . gave to simplified matter the verisimilitude of proper names.

If Jacob is now to find himself apart from his family, if he is to find who he can be in this newly uncertain world in which he is alone, he must also now find God as his own God. Not that he thinks of this for himself. It is not Jacob who turns to God but God who turns to Jacob.