Quotes about Identity
God had no problem with the man's separateness, his uniqueness, or his wholeness.
— Myles Munroe
The machine unmakes the man. Now that the machine is so perfect, the engineer is nobody.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The consciousness in each man is a sliding scale, which identifies him now with the First Cause, and now with the flesh of his body; life above life, in infinite degrees.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The man who renounces himself, comes to himself.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Where all of the man is what property he owns, it does not take long to annihilate him.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Man is that name of power which rises above them all, and gives to every one the right to be that which God meant he should be.
— Henry Ward Beecher
A boy is a piece of existence quite separate from all things else, and deserves separate chapters in the natural history of men.
— Henry Ward Beecher
I clearly saw the skeleton underneath all this show of personality what is left of a man and all his pride but bones?
— Jack Kerouac
Am I really a man? Have I got what it takeswhen it counts?
— John Eldredge
Christianity has basically communicated to men that the reason God put you on this Earth is to be a good boy. Mind your manners, be a nice guy. That's soul killing!
— John Eldredge
Real question is not who was this man (Jesus), but who is this man?
— John Ortberg
We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground.
— Mark Twain