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The Lord's questions always reveal the true me to myself.
- Oswald Chambers
Most of us fear that in growing old, we'll become a shell of ourselves. But, of course, it's the youthful versions of ourselves that are our shells; we must leave them behind like a snakeskin. We must grow out of ourselves to grow beyond our old limits, or else risk being suffocated by the sediment of our own history.
- Pamela Redmond Satran
Making peace with my past was the first step; being grateful for it was the second. Now, at last, I can appreciate the woman those experiences created: me.
- Pamela Redmond Satran
Human beings are always assigning to themselves some kind of identity. There are only two places to look. Either you will be getting your identity vertically, from who you are in Christ, or you will be shopping for it horizontally in the situations, experiences, and relationships of your daily life. This
- Paul David Tripp
Either you will be getting your identity vertically, from who you are in Christ, or you will be shopping for it horizontally in the situations, experiences, and relationships of your daily life.
- Paul David Tripp
We must be ourselves, we must decide where to go.
- Paul Tillich
Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible in us be found.
- Pema Chodron
I hear Aslan's words to Shasta: "'Child,' said the Lion, 'I am telling you your story. . . . I tell no one any story but his own.
- Peter Enns
“What is your name?” the man asked. “Jacob,” he replied.
- Genesis 32:27
What does it profit a man to gain the whole world, yet lose or forfeit his very self?
- Luke 9:25
You must be the person you have never had the courage to be. Gradually, you will discover that you are that person, but until you can see this clearly, you must pretend and invent.
- Paulo Coelho
I've been through all this before,' he says to his heart. " 'Yes, you have been through all this before,' replies his heart. 'But you have never been beyond it.
- Paulo Coelho