Quotes about Conformity

True faith always produces real conformity to Christ.

The goal of the Christian life is not external conformity or mindless action, but a passionate love for God informed by the mind and embraced by the will.

But that acknowledgment of the truth which affects the heart, and conforms the soul unto the will of God revealed, is not attainable in any degree without the saving illumination of the Spirit of God.

In short, these rebels punished their families, but only in the traditionally feminine way: they punished themselves.

Of course you are peculiar. If the world continues its present trend, and if you walk in obedience to the doctrines and principles of this church, you may become even more peculiar in the eyes of others.

What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.

Everybody always laughs because I feel so much more comfortable with, like, a giant paper bag on my whole body and paint on my face. Sometimes I try really hard to take it all off. But inevitably what's underneath is still not a straight edge. And I don't think it ever will be.

When we heed God's Word, we are rejecting how the world tries to disciple us.

Some of us have been told what we want our whole lives. We've been told we should want to go out for sports or not. We should want a college education or a graduate degree or a particular career. We should want to date this person and not the other.

I am wont to think that men are not so much the keepers of herds as herds are the keepers of men. The former are so much the freer.

I would rather be a man of conviction than a man of conformity

He that would be conformed to Christ's image, and become a Christ-like man, must be constantly studying Christ Himself.