Quotes about your identity
Do I know my own real identity? My own real destiny?
I am a child of God. God is my Father; heaven is my home; every
day is one day nearer. My Saviour is my brother; every Christian is
my brother too'. Say it over and over to yourself first thing in the morning, last thing at night, as you wait for the bus, any time that your mind is free, and ask that you may be enabled to live as one who knows it is all utterly and completely true.
Jim Packer in Knowing God
In our western world fantastic technical skills are wedded to an extreme emotional childishness and immaturity which bogs us all down deeper in sin's legacy of self-centredness, self-absorbtion and self-pity than any generation has ever sunk since Christianity entered the world.
" This is the true joy of life, the being used up
for a purpose recognised by yourself as a mighty one;
being a force of nature instead of a feverish,
selfish little clot of ailments and grievances,
complaining that the world will not devote itself
to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my
life belongs to the community, and as long as I live,
it is my privilege to do for it what I can. "
God is first. That's the breath of life. For me, that's why I'm here. I've been blessed with these abilities. I believe that it's not what you're given, it's what you do with what you have. I learned that from the Bible. What are you doing with what you have? Everybody has gifts to give. Who did you lift today? Who did you make better today?
My secret is that I need God - that I am sick and can no longer make it alone. I need God to help me give, because I am no longer capable of giving; to help me be kind as I no longer seem capable of kindness; to help me love as I seem beyond being able to love.
I'm not the King. Christ is the King. I'm just a singer.
You never loose your roots, not if you come from Sunderland. From Sarajevo to Beijing, I've been greeted with the words - you're from Sunderland - and to the puzzlement of my friends and colleagues discussed streets and schools and the state of the football team with complete strangers. Except they're not strangers, because they're from Sunderland.
Kate Adie