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Quotes about Conformity

Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.
- Lysa TerKeurst
Marx's dream of a workers' paradise had degenerated into an Orwellian nightmare; conformity was the highest good, informants kept watch on every block, whole countries lived behind barbed wire, and governments insisted that down was up and black was white.
- Madeleine Albright
College mostly makes people like bladders—just good for nothing but t' hold the stuff as is poured into 'em.
- George Eliot
Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.
- Charles Spurgeon
True faith always produces real conformity to Christ.
- RC Sproul
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.
- John Owen
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.
- John Owen
In short, these rebels punished their families, but only in the traditionally feminine way: they punished themselves.
- Gloria Steinem
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.
- Gordon Hinckley
What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
- Henry David Thoreau
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.
- Lady Gaga
When we heed God's Word, we are rejecting how the world tries to disciple us.
- Matt Chandler