Quotes about Conformity
Compromising and conforming to the world's standard is against God's Word.
- Billy Graham
Subtle persecution may happen to you in your office, school, or social gathering. You may not be "with it," or be "one of the crowd." No suffering that the Christian endures for Christ is ever in vain.
- Billy Graham
We act as if it doesn't matter how we live or what we think or say. We have moved in with the world, and we have allowed the world to penetrate the way we live. So the things that we used to call sin no longer seem to be sin to us.
- Billy Graham
The church in America has been deeply infiltrated by the "world," and in the process it is beginning to copy and resemble the world in many of its activities.
- Billy Graham
It is easy for Christians to allow themselves to be squeezed into the world's mold... When nonbelievers see nothing different in the lifestyle of believers, they wonder if our profession of faith is sincere.
- Billy Graham
Christians are becoming disengaged in following the Scripture that tells us not to conform to the world's system.
- Billy Graham
Christians are expected to carry the marks of the Lord Jesus, not adapt to the fashionable counterculture driven by marketing traps.
- Billy Graham
It is a tragedy that many of God's people have conformed themselves to the world and its thinking, rather than being transformed by the renewing of their minds.
- Billy Graham
The pagan world is still trying to put its stamp of conformity on every follower of Jesus Christ. Every possible pressure is being brought to bear upon Christians to make them conform to the standards of the present world... be a committed follower of Jesus Christ.
- Billy Graham
No white American ever thinks that any other race is wholly civilized until he wears the white man's clothes, eats the white man's food, speaks the white man's language, and professes the white man's religion.
- Booker T. Washington
But woe is thee, thou torrent of human custom! Who shall stand against thee?
- St. Augustine
A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern; he repeats phrases and thinks in a groove.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti