Quotes about Conformity
Sanctification is not my idea of what I want God to do for me; sanctification is God's idea of what He wants to do for me.
- Oswald Chambers
We are not saved in order to be a blessing to other people--you will be that inevitably--but primarily we are saved in order to be conformed to the likeness of Jesus Christ, God's Son.
- Alan Redpath
All moral obligation resolves itself into the obligation of conformity to the will of God.
- Charles Hodge
The purpose of God isn't to save us from Hell. The purpose of God is to make us like Christ.
- AW Tozer
A sin...consists in doing, saying, thinking, or imagining anything that is not in perfect conformity with the mind and law of God.
- JC Ryle
We won't be like Jesus if it's more important to us to be like each other. God doesn't compare what he creates.
- Bob Goff
Holiness is not a series of do's and don'ts but conformity to the character of God and obedience to the will of God.
- Jerry Bridges
Holy is the way God is. To be holy He does not conform to a standard. He IS that standard.
- AW Tozer
A disciple is one who thinks, feels and acts like Jesus Christ. It is being conformed to the image of Christ as Romans 8:28-29 states-that God's No.1 purpose in our lives is to make us like Jesus.
- Rick Warren
We insist that God must surely lead everyone as we believe He has led us. We refuse to allow God the freedom to deal with each of us as individuals. When we think like that, we are legalistic.
- Jerry Bridges
We are called not to adjust ourselves to each other, but to adjust ourselves to God.
- AW Tozer
God's mark is on everything that obeys Him.
- Martin Luther