Quotes about Conformity
Wretched, in a word, because she had behaved as any healthy and virtuous English girl ought to behave and not in some other, abnormal, extraordinary way.
- Aldous Huxley
Orgy-porgy, round and round and round, beating one another in six-eight time.
- Aldous Huxley
Conformity to the will of God, submission, docility to the leadings of the Holy Ghost in practice, if not verbally, these are the same as conformity to the Perfect Way, refusing to have preferences and cherish opinions, keeping the eyes open so that dreams may cease and Truth reveal itself.
- Aldous Huxley
A human being in a highly technicized productive unit is simply not allowed to be spontaneous. It just interferes with the plan laid down in advance by the engineers and technicians who decide how he should word, and in this way he, the human being, is profoundly diminished, because he is not permitted to be spontaneous.
- Aldous Huxley
So the Spiritual Disciplines are those personal and interpersonal activities given by God in the Bible as the sufficient means believers in Jesus Christ are to use in the Spirit-filled, gospel-driven pursuit of godliness, that is, closeness to Christ and conformity to Christ.
- Donald Whitney
God's purpose for us is not to make us healthy, happy, prosperous, and problem-free. His ultimate purpose is to conform us to the image of His own dear Son, that we might bear much fruit to His glory.12 And sometimes, in fulfilling that purpose, He allows us to be hurt.
- Anne Graham Lotz
If I were to look at the church of Jesus Christ in America today, I would say our greatest problem is not that we lack the resources to do things, not that we lack the models, the programs, and the plans, but that we lack conformity to the image of Jesus Christ.
- Paul Washer
I hope she'll be a fool - that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
Take off that darn fur coat!...Or maybe you'd like to have us open all the windows.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
I'm glad it's a girl. And I hope she'll be a fool--that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
All right,' I said, 'I'm glad it's a girl. And I hope she'll be a fool—that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
The greatest hazard of all, losing one's self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all.
- Soren Kierkegaard