Conformed Quotes

#1. It is a tragedy that many of God's people have conformed themselves to the world and its thinking, rather than being transformed by the renewing of their minds.

Billy Graham

#2. Everything that God brings into our life is directed to one purpose: that we might be conformed to the image of Christ.

Erwin W. Lutzer

#3. God has a reason for not giving us the quick fix: He wants us to be conformed to His image and He uses trials to help us grow. Weight loss is one of those trials. It's not fun, but God can do great things in our lives if we persevere and keep going to Him for help.

Barb Raveling

#4. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind (12:2).

Anonymous

#5. To be conformed to Jesus, we must first begin to think as Jesus did. We need the "mind of Christ." We need to value the things He values and despise the things He despises. We need to have the same priorities He has. We need to consider weighty the things He considers weighty.

R.C. Sproul

#6. Romans 12:2New King James Version (NKJV)
2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

Christianity Today

#7. I would not trade the difficult years for all the prosperity in the world. God knows what each one of us must suffer in order to be conformed to the image of Christ.

Paul Washer

#8. We cannot improve the world if we are conformed to the world.

Neal A. Maxwell

#9. A vision of God high and lifted up reveals to me my sin and increases my love for him. Grief and love lead to genuine repentance, and I begin to be conformed to the image of the One I behold.

Jen Wilkin

#10. To be conformed to the one who has become human - that is what being really human means.[77.]

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#11. If we do not become changed from the inside-out - if we don't morph - we will be tempted to find external methods to satisfy our need to feel that we're different from those outside the faith. If we cannot be transformed, we will settle for being informed or conformed.

John Ortberg

#12. 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

#13. conformed to the principle of least action, a foundation of physics that holds that light or any object moving between two points should follow the easiest path.3 Planck's paper not only contributed to the development of relativity theory; it also helped to legitimize it among other physicists.

Walter Isaacson

#14. I think this is one of the major challenges that we face in the U.S. The major incidents in the U.S. have not conformed to our stereotype of an established terror organization attacking a major iconic landmark.

Bruce Hoffman

#15. Pure hearts will be Christlike. It is God's desire that we be conformed to the image of His Son.

Billy Graham

#16. God's purpose for us is that we ought to be
conformed to the image of His Son. The world may exert its pressure to deform us, but we are told to "be transformed" [Romans 12:2 NIV].

Billy Graham

#17. Ardent love or desire introduced, as passionately longing to please and glorify the Divine Being, to be in every respect conformed to him, and in that way to enjoy him.

David Brainerd

#18. We become like what we focus upon. Fix your eyes upon Christ and be conformed into His image.

Steven J. Lawson

#19. I live in Jesus, on Jesus, with Jesus, and soon hope to be perfectly conformed to His likeness.

Charles Spurgeon

#20. The highest aim of womanhood is not motherhood; the highest aim of womanhood is being conformed to the image of Christ.

Gloria Furman

#21. I thought my friends were damn fools, because they didn't know any better way of conducting their lives. Still they conformed better than I to a code. I wanted to conform but I couldn't so I wrote my poetry.

William Carlos Williams

#22. Killing a Jew was an insignificant, legitimate, authorized, and encouraged act that conformed with the directives of the Reich. Protecting a Jew led to capital punishment.

Patrick Desbois

#23. Knowledge of facts is important. Knowledge of truth is essential. Yet our Lord's concern goes beyond mere head knowledge. He wants us not only to know the truth but also to obey the truth. He wants us to live the truth, practice the truth, and be conformed to and transformed by that truth.

Wayne Mack

#24. He that would be conformed to Christ's image, and become a Christ-like man, must be constantly studying Christ Himself.

J.C. Ryle

#25. 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 Haddon Spurgeon

#26. We sometimes hear the argument, 'All the world' thinks this, or does that, given as a reason for our doing likewise; but that is an argument that should have no weight with the Christian, who is commanded not to be conformed to the world.

Hudson Taylor

#27. It's nice to wear a suit once in a while. It can restrict some body movement, but it makes me feel as though I'm part of society. I feel a sense of security because I've conformed to the standards of the rest of the world.

Hideo Kojima

#28. Great are those two gifts, wisdom and continence: wisdom, forsooth, whereby we are formed in the knowledge of God; continence whereby we are not conformed to this world.

Saint Augustine

#29. Do I have to recite any further risks you have taken? How much you have not conformed? How much internal bravery this implies?

Ellen Ullman

#30. A just person is one who is conformed and transformed into justice.

Meister Eckhart

#31. Jesus conformed to our image so we could be transformed into His likeness

John Paul Warren

#32. Be ye not conformed to this world, but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind. Romans 12:2

Barbara Cadwell

#33. Within each of us exists the image of God, however disfigured and corrupted by sin it may presently be. God is able to recover this image through grace as we are conformed to Christ.

Alister E. McGrath

#34. If we are not deliberately thinking about our culture and our context, we will be conformed to it without ever knowing.

Timothy Keller

#35. The primary purpose of prayer is to bring us into such a life of communion with the Father that, by the power of the Spirit, we are increasingly conformed to the image of the Son.

Richard Foster

#36. In this I conformed to my usual manner of thinking in symbols; this because the things of the invisible world attract me more than those of actual life

Ibn Arabi

#37. If after all your efforts you cannot succeed, you could not please our Lord more than by sacrificing to Him your will, and remaining in tranquility, humility, and devotion, entirely conformed and submissive to His divine will and good pleasure.

Francis De Sales

#38. He did not defy convention: when it did not interfere with whatever line of conduct he meant to pursue he conformed to it; and when it did he ignored it, affably conceding to his critics their right to censure him, if they felt so inclined, and caring neither for their praise nor their blame.

Georgette Heyer

#39. 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

#40. And that is a hard route for a woman to come through. There's still a lot of roles that have to be conformed to. It's quite an old fashioned environment in a lot of ways.

Colin Firth

#41. Second. - The Christian is to walk singularly, not after the world's guise, Rom. 12:2. We are commanded not to be conformed to this world, that is, not to accommodate ourselves to the corrupt customs of the world.

William Gurnall

#42. To be conformed to this world is to risk the loss of one's eternal soul.

R.C. Sproul

#43. Christian minds have been conformed to the modern spirit: the spirit, that is, that spawns great thoughts of man and leaves room for only small thoughts of God.

J.I. Packer

#44. Every day that we're not practicing godliness we're being conformed to the world of ungodliness around us.

Jerry Bridges

#45. The apostle Paul said, "Be not conformed to this world." These words cut like a sharp sword across our way of life. They have the tone of the battle call in them. They separate the weak from the strong. But they are words of inspiration, and we need to hear them today.

Billy Graham

#46. As you worry less about going through conflict and focus more on growing through conflict, you will enhance that process and experience the incomparable blessing of being conformed to the likeness of Christ.

Ken Sande

#47. Probably if our lives were more conformed to nature, we should not need to defend ourselves against her heats and colds, but findher our constant nurse and friend, as do plants and quadrupeds.

Henry David Thoreau