“Jesus came to announce to us that an identity based on success, popularity and power is a false identity- an illusion! Loudly and clearly he says: 'You are not what the world makes you; but you are children of God.”
Henri J.M. Nouwen
Here and Now: Living in the Spirit
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“To the degree that we embrace the truth that our identity is not rooted in our success, power, or popularity, but in God's infinite love, to that degree can we let go of our need to judge.”
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“You do not base your beliefthat Jesus is the Saviour from sinupon the fact that somebody is saved, or says he is saved;but you base it upon the Word of the living God;and there you stand.”
John Alexander Dowie
“If you accept what people call you, you will start to believe it. Find your identity in Christ, not in what others say.”
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