Quotes about Conformity
When we heed God's Word, we are rejecting how the world tries to disciple us.
— Matt Chandler
Some of us have been told what we want our whole lives. We've been told we should want to go out for sports or not. We should want a college education or a graduate degree or a particular career. We should want to date this person and not the other.
— Bob Goff
Being part of a crowd and not standing out is way more frightening than being the person that stands out.
— Shura
I am wont to think that men are not so much the keepers of herds as herds are the keepers of men. The former are so much the freer.
— Henry David Thoreau
I would rather be a man of conviction than a man of conformity
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
He that would be conformed to Christ's image, and become a Christ-like man, must be constantly studying Christ Himself.
— JC Ryle
Love for God is obedience; love for God is holiness. To love God and to love man is to be conformed to the image of Christ, and this is salvation.
— Charles Spurgeon
A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
— George Bernard Shaw
Wherever a man goes, men will pursue him and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can, constrain him to belong to their desperate odd-fellow society.
— Henry David Thoreau
For this reason truth is defined by the conformity of intellect and thing; and hence to know this conformity is to know truth.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Beauty was not everything. Beauty had this penalty — it came too readily, came too completely. It stilled life — froze it.
— Virginia Woolf
With a brain working and a body working one could keep step with the crowd and never be found out for the hollow machine, lacking the essential thing, that one was conscious of being.
— Virginia Woolf