Who We Are Quotes - Page 39

• Who we listen to determines what we hear. Where we stand determines what we see. What we do determines who we are.

  Robert McAfee Brown

  Determine

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• We oft know little of who we were, only something of who we are, and nothing of who we may be.

  Charlie Fletcher

  May, Littles, Knows

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• Ultimately there is light and love and intelligence in this universe. And we are it, we carry that within us, it’s not just something out there, it is within us and this is what we are trying to re-connect with, our original light and love and intelligence, which is who we are, so do not get so distracted by all this other stuff, you know, really remember what we are here on this planet for.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Love, Spiritual, Buddhist

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• 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.

  David F. Wells

  Choices, Sinfulness, Forgiven

  David F. Wells (2008). “The Courage to Be Protestant: Truth-lovers, Marketers, and Emergents in the Postmodern World”, p.167, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• But pain is hard to put into words and in life there is always pain. It’s as natural as birth or death. Pain makes us who we are, it teaches us and tames us, it can destroy and it can save.

  Anna McPartlin

  Pain, Birth, Natural

  Anna McPartlin (2008). “Pack Up the Moon”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• At the root of all our disobedience are particular ways in which we continue to seek control of our lives through systems of works-righteousness. The way to progress as a Christian is to continually repent and uproot these systems the same way we become Christians, namely by the vivid depiction (and re-depiction) of Christ’s saving work for us, and the abandoning of self-trusting efforts to complete ourselves. We must go back again and again to the gospel of Christ-crucified, so that our hearts are more deeply gripped by the reality of what he did and who we are in him.

  Timothy Keller

  Christian, Heart, Reality

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• There are so many noises and pulls and competing demands in our lives that many of us never find out who we are. Learn to be quiet enough to hear the sound of the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in other people.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  People, Sound, Demand

  Marian Wright Edelman (2013). “The Measure of our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours”, p.61, Beacon Press

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• How we survive, is what makes us who we are.

  Tim McIlrath

  Rise Against

  "Song: 'Survive'". 2006.

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• In spite of how things may appear to us, we are never trapped by where we are. The trap is always who we are

  Guy Finley

  May, Traps, Spite

  FaceBook post by Guy Finley from Dec 05, 2013

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• Obama likes to quote great men but will never be a great man himself. I can't stand it when our leader goes around apologizing for who we are.

  Samuel J. Wurzelbacher

  Apology, Men, Usa

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• A true understanding of who God is, who we are, and the missionary task should drive us to our knees and keep us there.

  Kevin Baggett

  Understanding, Missionary, Tasks

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• The basics teachings of Buddha are about understanding what we are, who we are, why we are. When we begin to realize what we are, who we are, why we are, then we begin to realize what we are not, who we are not, why we are not. We begin to realize that we don't have basic, substantial, solid, fundamental ground that we can exert anymore. We begin to realize that our ideas of security and our concept of freedom have been purely phantom experiences.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Freedom, Teaching, Ideas

  Chogyam Trungpa (2009). “The Mishap Lineage: Transforming Confusion into Wisdom”, p.4, Shambhala Publications

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• Let's start to have a grown up debate in this country about who we are and where we want to go and what kind of country we want to leave for our kids.

  Ed Miliband

  Country, Want, Kind

  "Labour conference: Ed Miliband speech in full". www.theguardian.com. September 28, 2010.

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• No disability or dictionary out there, is capable of clearly defining who we are as a person.

  Robert M. Hensel

  Defining, Disability, Dictionary

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• I have made a film about jazz that tries to look through jazz to see what it tells us about who we are as a people. I think that jazz is a spectacularly accurate model of democracy and a kind of look into our redemptive future possibilities.

  Ken Burns

  Thinking, People, Democracy

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• We create an image of who we are inside our self. The image then becomes very deeply entrenched, and it becomes the thing that we attribute responsibility to - we say "I", "I" did this because "I" wanted to, because "I" am a good person or because "I" am a bad person. The loop is the fact that we represent our selves, our desires, hopes, dreads and dreams: it is the way in which we conceive of ourselves, rather than the way we conceive of Mount Everest or of a tree. And I say it exists entirely in the loop: the self is an hallucination hallucinated by an hallucination.

  Douglas Hofstadter

  Dream, Responsibility, Self

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• The hero's journey is simply who we are as human beings.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Inspiring, Hero, Journey

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• Humankind is being led along an evolving course, through this migration of intelligences, and though we seem to be sleeping, there is an inner wakefulness that directs the dream, and that will eventually startle us back to the truth.

  Rumi

  Life, Dream, Truth

  "Selected Poems".

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• NEVER SURRENDER DREAMS
  If we are to be who we are; if we are to accomplish great things; then we must learn the heart's most essential rule: NEVER SURRENDER DREAMS

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Dream, Heart, Essentials

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• We either misdirect or depress great amounts of energy in order to keep ourselves from feeling pain, including what we feel in the moment and being who we are in the moment.

  Barbara Brennan

  Depressing, Pain, Healing

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• Life is an inside-out game. The truth is that all our situations and circumstances have their beginnings in our minds. Our idea of who we are creates who we become - the great news is you can change your self-impressions and change your life.

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Life, Self, Games

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• Most of us are not leaders today because, in our hearts we don't believe that is who we are.

  Myles Munroe

  Leadership, Believe, Heart

  Myles Munroe (2007). “Keys for Leadership”, p.16, Whitaker House

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• What we know about who we are comes from stories. It's the agents of our imagination who really shape who we are.

  Chris Abani

  Imagination, Stories, Agents

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• People wouldn’t have become who we are today if we hadn’t coevolved with dogs.

  Temple Grandin

  Dog, People, Today

  Temple Grandin, Catherine Johnson (2009). “Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior”, p.346, Simon and Schuster

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• These people hate the United States, not for what we do, but for who we are and what we are.

  Paul Bremer

  Hate, People, United States

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