Quotes about Conformity

I wish to be an "I" no longer. I reject my "I." My desire is to be a "He." "When He is revealed, we shall be like Him" (1 John 3:2).

Sometimes we've accepted rules and codes and limits without realizing it.

What happens is our lives become so heavily oriented around the expectations of others that we become more and more like them and less and less like ourselves. We become split. I was split. I had this person I knew I was made to be, yet it was mixed in with all of these other ... people. As the lights were turned on, I saw I had all of this guilt and shame because I wasn't measuring up to the image of the perfect person I had in my head.

People may hate you for being different and not living by society's standards but deep down, they wish they had the courage to do the same.

Mrs. Hammon told me that God made my hair red on purpose and I haven't card for him since.

For many, religion has to do with what we are allowed to do and not allowed to do. In the end, that doesn't bear fruit.

A soft and sheltered Christianity, afraid to be lean and lone, unwilling to face the storms and brave the heights, will end up fat and foul in the cages of conformity.

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

The sinful heart is never transformed by conformity to the imperatives but only by relationship with the One who cleanses hearts.

When you have him as your leader, and conform your will and desire to his, what fear of failure can you have?

I, personally, was never kept from something I wanted, nor had forced upon me something I was opposed to. How did I manage it? I submitted my will to God. He wants me to be sick — well, then, so do I. He wants me to choose something. Then I choose it. He wants me to desire something, I desire it. He wants me to get something, I want the same; or he doesn't want me to get it, and I concur.

We sometimes hear the argument, 'All the world' thinks this, or does that, given as a reason for our doing likewise; but that is an argument that should have no weight with the Christian, who is commanded not to be conformed to the world.