This, and this alone, is Christianity, a universal holiness in every part of life, a heavenly wisdom in all our actions, not conforming to the spirit and temper of the world but turning all worldly enjoyments into means of piety and devotion to God.
Quotes about conforming (16 Quotes)
My issue is race. I feel black people nowadays have to conform to this one ideal. We all have to be the same. We all have to be hard and ghetto and listen to only one genre of music which would be Rap and RB. And if one of us steps out of the mold we're not black anymore. Well, that's dumb. When did music determine your racial background Or a musical instrument I can't believe the dumb things people say when you're doing something different. I mean, it would be ok if music and how you dress and act actually determined your race, but the last time I checked it was your genes that determined your color. And I think anyone who chooses to believe in this fabrication is ignorant. Isn't this what the Civil Rights Movement was about, equality Didn't Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speak of diversity and how we should hold hands at the table of brotherhood Well how are you supposed to do this when we try to conform to this idea. Not conforming doesn't make you have less pride in your race but it's helping make a window of opportunities for your race. Well, as for me, I'm stepping out of the box and going forward to be who I am, and if people disagree, fk them. I believe this will bring me closer to the goal that god ordained for me. And doing this doesn't mean I'm selling out my race, but it means I'm not selling out who I am.
Father Jenkins, your paradox, like ours, is embracing an institution crafted by other people and taking it as your own, conforming its identity to your individuality, and determining your unique way to be a powerful means for good in this country and the world.
As to conforming outwardly, and living your own life inwardly, I have not a very high opinion of that course.
I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.
He who learns the rules of wisdom, without conforming to them in his life, is like a man who labored in his fields, but did not sow
I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.
MORAL, adj. Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right. Having the quality of general expediency.
There's a big cloud of secrecy that is hung over that abortion clinic and the only ones who know whether or not they are conforming with the law is the perpetrators themselves.
The fourth (of the four cardinal virtues) is supportiveness this manifests as service to others without expectation of reward. (Paraphrased Such service is not a mere conforming to some external rule of behavior, but instead a manifestation of your original nature).
This is a very difficult case because it is very isolated, and that's why we have called for expressions of interest from both conforming and non-conforming interests,
ABNORMAL, adj. Not conforming to standard. In matters of thought and conduct, to be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal is to be detested. Wherefore the lexicographer adviseth a striving toward the straiter sic resemblance of the Average Man.
If you do it every season, it becomes expected. And the minute it becomes expected, it's no longer cultural or countercultural. This is about innovation, lifestyle and attitude. And if you are conforming to the norms of the industry, you have lost your personality and individuality.
When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.
If the international community tries to create the illusion that Serbia is conforming with demands ... we won't be able to tolerate it for long.
DEPUTY, n. A male relative of an office-holder, or of his bondsman. The deputy is commonly a beautiful young man, with a red necktie and an intricate system of cobwebs extending from his nose to his desk. When accidentally struck by the janitor's broom, he gives off a cloud of dust.Chief Deputy, the Master cried,To-day the books are to be tried By experts and accountants who Have been commissioned to go through Our office here, to see if we Have stolen injudiciously. Please have the proper entries made, The proper balances displayed, Conforming to the whole amount Of cash on hand --which they will count. I've long admired your punctual way -- Here at the break and close of day, Confronting in your chair the crowd Of business men, whose voices loud And gestures violent you quell By some mysterious, calm spell -- Some magic lurking in your look That brings the noisiest to book And spreads a holy and profound Tranquillity o'er all around. So orderly all's done that they Who came to draw remain to pay. But now the time demands, at last, That you employ your genius vast In energies more active. Rise And shake the lightnings from your eyes Inspire your underlings, and fling Your spirit into everything The Master's hand here dealt a whack Upon the Deputy's bent back, When straightway to the floor there fell A shrunken globe, a rattling shell A blackened, withered, eyeless head The man had been a twelvemonth dead. --Jamrach Holobom