Who We Are Quotes - Page 8

Who we are looking for is who is looking.

When God's Word is deliberately internalized, it will be authentically externalized because it's no longer what we do - it's part of who we are.

There's a dream world that we visit sometimes and that's how we found out who we are.

We realize--often quite suddenly--that our sense of self, which has been formed and constructed out of our ideas, beliefs and images, is not really who we are. It doesn't define us, it has no center.

To say what or where we came from has nothing to do with what or where we came from. We do not come from there any more, but only from each word that proceeds out of the mouth of the unnamed. And yet sometimes it is our only way of pointing to who we are.

When the Christian faith becomes defined by who we are and what we do and not by who Christ is and what he did for us, we miss the gospel - and we, ironically, become more disobedient.

In a time of infirmity, the illness IS one's work. Taking care of all the disciplines that our health problems require IS the other part of the small daily fidelity to which we are called, beside the faithfulness of being attentive to God. We can be well simply by our diligence in being who we are at the moment.

When we deny what comes through us, it defines us. When we honestly face what comes through us, then who we are grows.

It's not where we've been that matters to God. It's who we are becoming in Him.

The family farm is the foundation for who we are as a Commonwealth. And for over a century, the family farm in Kentucky has centered around one crop: tobacco.

In times of adversity and change, we really discover who we are and what we're made of.

I think that we're all continually searching for who we are, and that's ever-evolving and changing.

I've always been a big believer in the power of place. I believe that where we are affects who we are when it comes to happiness, spirituality, economics and creative genius.

I'm not sure who's right, who's wrong, but it doesn't matter. Sometimes you just have to do what you're told. That's who we are!

We can't run from who we are; our destiny chooses us.

I think if we ever reach the point where we think we thoroughly understand who we are and where we came from, we will have failed.

Because we are not separate and we are a strand in the web of this existence, there is nothing about us - which includes who we are and what we do - that is not happening perfectly.

If we don't know where we are, we don't know who we are.

That non-attachment gives us the freedom to be exactly who we are.

So, I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them.

It's only ... when we're stripped of purpose that we know who we are.

Every thought, emotion, and action is a statement about who we are, and who we are becoming. Why not make this statement 'On Purpose'?

There are many ways that we hurt ourselves when we don't like who we are.

Attitude will always define who we are in life.

Your life has purpose as long as you dedicate it to love. It's not what we do but who we are that forms our biggest contribution.