Life is a succession of crises and moments when we have to rediscover who we are and what we really want.
St. Augustine wrote that basically it is not possible to understand what was being described in Genesis. It was not intended as a science textbook. It was intended as a description of who God was, who we are and what our relationship is supposed to be with God.
What has to be forgiven is not just what we do but who we are, not just our sinning but our sinfulness, not just our choices but what we have chosen in place of God.
Our lives teach us who we are.
Disconnect your identity from what you produce, and that’s a hard thing for us because we think of our significance, worth and value based on what we do instead of who we are.
Our democracy is the centerpiece of who we are as a nation. And it is the fondest hope of all Americans that we can help bring democracy to every corner of the world.
We should draw on our story, we should draw on our history. If we don't know who we are, if we don't know how we became what we are, we're going to start suffering from all the obvious detrimental effects of amnesia.
We all have our flaws. But we overcome them. And sometimes, it's our flaws that make us who we are.
Did you ever wonder if the person in the picture is the same one you see when you look in the mirror?" - "That's the eternal question, isn't it? Are we born who we are, or do we make ourselves that way?
The poor tell us who we are, the prophets tell us who we could be, so we hide the poor, and kill the prophets.
We don't have two lives-a "spiritual" life here and a "regular" life there. Our life in Christ is one unified lifestyle, and it is who we are wherever we are.
We all have some ideological quotient in ourselves. And I think it does guide who we are.
Language is our way of communicating what we want and who we are.
It doesn’t matter who we are or where we’ve been, God sent His Son for us – that’s the beauty of the Gospel.
Our future will be shaped by the assumptions we make about who we are and what we can be.
Whoever our students may be, whatever the subject we teach, ultimately we teach who we are.
Debt has become a part of who we are.
We can't run from who we are; our destiny chooses us.
As we free ourselves from the suffering of 'something is wrong with me, 'we trust and express the fullness of who we are. '
When we realize that we are children of the covenant, we know who we are and what God expects of us.