Quotes about Conformity
Wherefore let us be much in the contemplation of what he was, what he did, how in all instances of duties and trials he carried himself, until an image or idea of his perfect holiness is implanted in our minds, and we are made like unto him thereby.
- John Owen
The industrial age brought compliance and compliance brought fear and fear brought us mediocrity.
- Seth Godin
If I play a stupid girl and ask a stupid question, I've got to follow it through, what am I supposed to do, look intelligent?
- Marilyn Monroe
Society's goal is to make us less foolish. From the cradle to grave the pressure is on: "Be normal!" Our inner fool may be shackled and caged by a world made to suppress it, but Jesus came to free the fool.
- Mark Batterson
Our normal is so subnormal that normal seems radical.
- Mark Batterson
Not many people sell their souls to the devil, but many of us sell our souls to the culture. Instead of defining success for ourselves, we let the culture define it for us. Instead of daring to be different, we conform to the pattern of this world. Why? We let our culture have the loudest voice.
- Mark Batterson
The age demanded that we dance and jammed us into iron pants. And in the end the age was handed the sort of sh.. that it demanded.
- Ernest Hemingway
No one can worthily speak or hear any Scripture, unless he is touched in conformity with it, so that he feels inwardly what he hears and says outwardly and says, "Ah, this is true!
- Martin Luther
A man don't always have to change the land. He can find a way to fit in.
- Mary Connealy
I mean all this focus on how we look on the outside. It's just all wrong
- Melody Carlson
he had never been able to tailor his behavior to what the goals at hand reasonably required.
- Michael Wolff
he had never been able to tailor his behavior to what the goals at hand reasonably required.
- Michael Wolff