Our Identity Quotes

#1. What we have in life that we can count on is who we are and where we come from, she thought absently. For better or worse, that is what we have to sustain us in our endevors, to buttress us in our darker moments, and to remind us of our identity. Without those things, we are adrift.

Terry Brooks

#2. But while God speaks truth to our hearts day by day, the enemy speaks lies to our minds constantly. And the way we manage our daily thoughts, determines which father we get our identity from.

Carlos A. Rodriguez

#3. Our identity is affected less and less by what we produce and more and more by what we consume.

Pete Sanders

#4. But sin should never consume our focus at the expense of our confidence in the power and sufficiency of Christ. There is little danger in thinking lowly of ourselves. The ever-present danger faced by the Christian is thinking too lowly of Christ. Christ is our identity, not indwelling sin.

Tony Reinke

#5. We should not center our lives on receiving praise and admiration. If we are secure in our faith, our identity will be based on the love of God, not the opinion of others.

Patti J. Smith

#6. When we fight back with joy, we awaken to the deepest reality of our identity as beloved, delightful children of God.

Margaret Feinberg

#7. Our identity is like that of an onion; with each experience we endure, a layer is peeled away, finally revealing who we really are at the core.

Afnan Ahmad Mia

#8. When we are willing to let God shape our identity, He will take whatever we have to offer and multiply it in ways and for a purpose that we cannot even begin to imagine.

Tim Tebow

#9. Our heart mends as our inner self - the central or innermost part of our identity - is wrapped around the Light inside of us, rather than around the people who have harmed us. This one small step changes the way we see things.

Suzanne Eller

#10. I said, yet again, for Germany, Europe is not only indispensable, it is part and parcel of our identity. We've always said German unity, European unity and integration, that's two parts of one and the same coin. But we want, obviously, to boost our competitiveness.

Angela Merkel

#11. Without Christ, every woman has intense insecurities. Unless we find our identity in Him, we Christian women can be just as prone to insecurities about our appearance as unbelievers. To Christ, the most beautiful person on earth is the one making preparation to meet the Groom.

Beth Moore

#12. E may value foreign elements not only because they are new but because they seem to accord more faithfully with our identity and commitments than anything our homeland can provide.

Alain De Botton

#13. It is one thing to understand the gospel but is quite another to experience the gospel in such a way that it fundamentally changes us and becomes the source of our identity and security.

J.D. Greear

#14. I've always been interested in how fast-moving our identity is and that I've never been able to pin down who I truly am. That inspires me to write, because I feel like that cements me a bit, in that I find my identity in being an artist.

Marina And The Diamonds

#15. Strengthening our identity is one way of reinforcing people's confidence and sense of citizenship and well-being.

David Blunkett

#16. Today, the Ravens answered: What is our identity? 'We are the same old team. We can play the same style of football.

Marshall Faulk

#17. We do not behave out of our identity, we behave out of our understanding of our identity in Christ.

Shelley Hendrix

#18. Yoga practices shift our identity away from the ego-personality and its struggles so that we can begin to reconnect with the essential nature of our being, which is bliss.

Sharon Gannon

#19. I know so many women in their fifties, sixties and seventies who delight in being on their own. It's amazing. They don't see any stigma attached to it. We don't need a man to prove our identity anymore.

Erica Jong

#20. Religion and culture are two important ways in which we as humans find our identity. That's certainly true for me.

Gene Luen Yang

#21. Our identity is not in our joy, and our identity is not in our suffering. Our identity is in Christ, whether we have joy or are suffering.

Mark Driscoll

#22. Remember, Resistance wants us to cede sovereignty to others. It wants us to stake our self-worth, our identity, our reason-for-being, on the response of others to our work. Resistance knows we can't take this. No one can.

Steven Pressfield

#23. The Bible says that our real problem is that every one of us is building our identity on something besides Jesus.

Timothy Keller

#24. We become full human agents, capable of understanding ourselves, and hence of defining our identity, through our acquisition of rich human languages of expression.

Charles Taylor

#25. We were very poor and my family lost everything during the war - our home and our identity. But I'm a believer in luck and think the social conditions you're born into provide the opportunity for you to prove your luck. And I suppose I've been lucky.

Sigmar Polke

#26. When we have sold our identity to the judges of this world, we are bound to become restless, because of a growing need for affirmation and praise.

Henri Nouwen

#27. Proclaiming the gospel to a lost world cannot be just another activity to add to the church's crowded agenda. It must be central to who we are. It forms our identity.

Francis Chan

#28. Often we lose our identity trying to please or placate others.

Mary Manin Morrissey

#29. And we should be a welcoming nation. Our identity is not based on race or ethnicity, it's based on a set of shared values. That's American citizenship.

Jeb Bush

#30. I think we carry around the idea of being a Kid in the Hall as part of our identity. It's a big part of how we see ourselves now.

Dave Foley

#31. Our identity has already been chosen for us; but it is up to us to accept it, or fight and change it.

Afnan Ahmad Mia

#32. When we remember our identity in Christ, it changes the way we see these relationships because we no longer base our worth on the approval of others but the approval we have already received from our Father through the work of His son.

Amy E. Spiegel

#33. I see the world as a temporary site-specific installation, structures, infrastructures, the foundation of our sense of belonging and our identity, seen from afar, as a great scale model: the city as an avatar of itself.

Olivo Barbieri

#34. I, too, have made many mistakes, but one valuable lesson that I have learned is that we cannot allow our mistakes to become our identity.

Asa Don Brown

#35. Our job, as souls on this mortal journey, is to shift the seat of our identity from the lower realm to the upper, from the ego to the Self. Art

Steven Pressfield

#36. Our identity in the world is like a wave from the Ocean.

Kishore Bansal

#37. We lose peace of mind when we indulge in the materialistic things. We see our reflections in these possessions and properties and attach ourselves to the point of becoming saddened by them. These possessions gradually become our identity and these identities start disturbing us with time.

Ryan Foret

#38. Being the beloved is our identity, the core of our existence. It is not merely a lofty thought, an inspiring idea, or one name among many. It is the name by which God knows us and the way He relates to us

Brennan Manning

#39. Our love of home is in turn an acknowledgement of the degree to which our identity is not self.

Alain De Botton

#40. Today Saint Paul has told us that in Christ we have become God's adopted children, brothers and sisters in Christ. This is who we are. This is our identity.

Pope Francis

#41. When you get into the third or fourth generation of Latino immigrants to the United States, you see the kids speaking more English than Spanish, and it's important that we don't lose our identity, our language.

Thalia

#42. By attaching our identity to things only a few can have, we ignore the intrinsic preciousness of all human life.

Parker J. Palmer

#43. We all see the world through the prism of our identity.

Ethan Hawke

#44. Our identity should be about what sphere of life we ought to bring to light as Christians

Sunday Adelaja

#45. That which we remember is, more often than not, that which we would like to have been; or that which we hope to be. Thus our memory and our identity are ever at odds; our history ever a tale told by inattentive idealists.

Ralph Ellison

#46. Our identity rests in God's relentless tenderness for us revealed in Jesus Christ.

Brennan Manning

#47. Mexican immigration poses challenges to our policies and to our identity in a way nothing else has in the past.

Samuel P. Huntington

#48. When our identity expands to include everything, we find a peace with the dance of the world. The ocean of life rises and falls within us - birth and death, joy and pain, it is all ours, and our heart is full and empty, large enough to embrace it all.

Jack Kornfield

#49. The language we share is at the core of our identity as citizens, and our ticket to full participation in American political life. We can speak any language we want at the dinner table, but English is the language of public discourse, or the marketplace and of the voting booth.

S.I. Hayakawa

#50. Hearing God's voice is not about something we do. Rather, hearing God is about someone we are. Hearing God is not primarily a behavior. It's a reflection of our identity. We hear God because of who we are and because of whose we are. In

Robert Morris

#51. Silence is victory and patience is glory.
Let silence speak our identity
and let patience keep our dignity.

Aram Seriteratai

#52. When our identity comes from the self, then we keep our energy to ourselves. We feel energetic, we feel powerful, and we experience youthful vigor.

Deepak Chopra

#53. We usually don't realize the thing that is defining our identity until that thing is taken away.

Tim Hiller

#54. We're more than the sum total of our choices, that all the paths we might have taken factor somehow into the math of our identity.

Blake Crouch

#55. At some point we must achieve our identity -we can't be always in adolescence seeking who we are ...

John Geddes

#56. The structure of our identity determines how we show up as a leader, how we deploy ourselves into circumstances.

William A. Adams

#57. It is only in God that we discover our origin, our identity, our meaning, our purpose, our significance, and our destiny. Every other path leads to a dead end.

Rick Warren

#58. Because Jesus paid it all, we are free from the need to do it all. Our identity, worth, and value, are not anchored in what we can accomplish but in what Jesus accomplished for us.

Tullian Tchividjian

#59. An awareness of our past is essential to the establishment of our personality and our identity as Africans.

Haile Selassie

#60. The origin of our identity is love.

Vanessa Diffenbaugh

#61. The suffering that started off challenging our being and our ideas of what life is and should be ends up opening our heart, expanding our identity, and connecting us forever to the human family and life.

John P. Schuster

#62. Memory, of course, is unreliable, often evil, but it is the source of our identity."--Tennessee Williams

James Grissom

#63. Today there are millions of people making stuff and putting it into the world: that's become part of our identity and it shouldn't be limited to people who fancy themselves writers, or who are particularly witty or talented.

David Karp

#64. Our diversity is not something that is on paper. It is the manifestation of our strength. It is not only our identity but also our tradition.

Narendra Modi

#65. Our identity is anchored in Christ's accomplishment, not our own; Christ's strength, not ours; Christ's pedigree and track record, not ours; Christ's victory, not ours. Who we really are has nothing to do with us at all - rather, it has everything to do with what Jesus has done for us.

Tullian Tchividjian

#66. God can desire to enter into a relationship with us; he can be drawn to some aspect of our identity.

Meir Soloveichik

#67. Our identity includes our natural world, how we move through it, how we interact with it and how it sustains us.

David Suzuki

#68. When our identity is found in Christ, we are free to be honest (James 5:16). If you have faith in Christ, your new identity is secure and robust. Your new identity in Christ is deeper than any of your wounds, sins, suffering, trials, and failures.

Anonymous

#69. Performancism is the mindset that equates our identity and value directly with our performance and accomplishments.

Tullian Tchividjian

#70. Our identity as the people of God is marked primarily by our faithfulness in obedience to Him.

Max Anders

#71. Selfless giving changes our concept of our identity. When we give to others our unselfishness removes the spot of "self" that stained our awareness.

Frederick Lenz

#72. Nothing in the Bible encourages us to give sex the exalted status it has in our culture, as if finding our purpose, our identity, and our fulfillment all rest with what we can or cannot do with our private parts.

Kevin DeYoung

#73. Our vocation is not simply to be, but to work together with God in the creation of our own life, our own identity, our own destiny ... To work out our identity in God.

Thomas Merton

#74. The marvelous thing about a good question is that it shapes our identity as much by the asking as it does by the answering.

David Whyte

#75. If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.

Timothy Keller

#76. Symbols give us our identity, our self image, our way of explaining ourselves to ourselves and to others. Symbols in turn determine the kinds of stories we tell, and the stories we tell determine the kind of history we make and remake.

Mary Robinson

#77. My bat mitzvah portion is about many things, but I think it is primarily about who we are wholly there for, and how that, more than anything else, defines our identity.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#78. Having more and newer things each year has become not just something we want but something we need. The idea of more, of ever increasing wealth, has become the center of our identity and our security, and we are caught up by it as the addict by his drugs.

Paul L Wachtel

#79. Battling evil, cruelty, and injustice allows us to retain our identity, a sense of meaning, and ultimately our freedom.

Chris Hedges

#80. To the degree that we embrace the truth that our identity is not rooted in our success, power, or popularity, but in God's infinite love, to that degree can we let go of our need to judge.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#81. How do we identify ourselves, and how do we settle into other people's expectations for our identity?

Tilda Swinton

#82. The arts give us our identity as a community; they also draw new people, fresh visions, and renewable economic opportunity to our community.

Gavin Newsom

#83. We walked back from dinner through the cold vestibules, unutterably aware of our identity with this country for one strange hour, before we melted indistinguishably into it again.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#84. Our identity sets the tone for all we do and become. Christians who live out of who they really are cannot be crippled by the opinions of others. They don't work to fit into other people's expectations, but burn with the realization of who the Father. says they are.

Bill Johnson

#85. What people don't get is that hair is such a big part of our identity.

Melissa Etheridge

#86. Apperance gave no clue to our identity, and neither did our behavior.

Carol Fuery

#87. When we fight back with joy, we embrace a reality that is more real than what we're enduring and we awaken to the deepest reality of our identity as beloved, joyful children of God.

Margaret Feinberg

#88. Culture has become one of the last elements of our identity. We have to act in favor of cultural diversity abroad as well as at home, we need strong cultural diplomacy but we have to create it.

Frederic Martel?

#89. When we own our beliefs, we have clear boundaries. We know what we believe and we know what others believe. There is no confusion. Our identity is strong to us and everyone else.

Patty Houser

#90. In many ways, being honest about 'Huckleberry Finn' goes right to the heart of whether we can be honest about our heritage and our identity as Americans.

Jane Smiley

#91. Our identity is fictional, written by parents, relatives, education, society.

Genesis P-Orridge

#92. The first step that leads to our identity in life is usually not 'I know who I am,' but rather 'I know who I am not.'

Matthew McConaughey

#93. We are therefore constantly on the road, straying from one mental image to the next, and identify with these images, and derive our identity from the images.

Frank M. Wanderer

#94. Our identity in the world must change from Scam India to Skill India.

Narendra Modi

#95. sometimes we wear masks so long
to hide what we truly feel
that those layers become
an extra skin, a part of our identity

R H Sin

#96. Here is the major life question: Does our experience create our identity ... or does our identity create our experience?

Steve Backlund

#97. It is place, permanent position in both the social and topographical sense, that gives us our identity.

J. B. Jackson

#98. The major strategy of Satan is to distort the character of God and the truth of who we are. He can't change God and he can't do anything to change our identity and position in Christ. If, however, he can get us to believe a lie, we will live as though our identity in Christ isn't true.

Neil T. Anderson

#99. This is why Indians are thought to be stupid. They can't think, they don't know anything, they say. But we have hidden our identity because we needed to resist, we wanted to protect what governments have wanted to take away from us.

Rigoberta Menchu

#100. We don't exist unless there is someone who can see us existing, what we say has no meaning until someone can understand, while to be surrounded by friends is constantly to have our identity confirmed; their knowledge and care for us have the power to pull us from our numbness.

Alain De Botton