A Quote by Kenneth L. Pike

When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God.

Kenneth L. Pike

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Abstract Conform God Nature Principle Truth

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Kenneth L. Pike
American - Sociologist
June 9, 1912 - December 31, 2000

It may be that these loan arrangements conform to the letter of the law, but they do not conform to the spirit of the law and to the principle of transparency on which it is based.

Bill Vaughan

No emotion is, in itself, a judgement; in that sense all emotions and sentiments are alogical. but they can be reasonable or unreasonable as they conform to Reason or fail to conform. The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it.

C. S. Lewis

I think cultures of conformity produce vast quantities of shame, both in people who simply can't conform and people who do conform, but underneath, they're not feeling conformist.

Jonathan Franzen

Knowledge of those unalterable Relations which Providence has ordained that every thing should bear to every other...To these we should conform in good Earnest; and not think to force Nature, and the whole Order of her System, by a Compliance with our Pride, and Folly, to conform to our artificial Regulations.

Edmund Burke

I always believed that clothes should be designed to conform to our bodies and not our bodies to conform to the clothing.

Indya Moore

Traditionally, the role of the individual was to conform to the organization. In the future the organization will have to conform to the needs of the individual.

Anita Roddick

That's what the left is always doing. They have an ideal, and they want people to conform to it. When people don't conform to it, they end up being beaten into the mold. And beaten sometimes hard enough so that if they don't fit, then they kill them. That's what happened in the Soviet Union and China.

Mark Helprin

Either we conform our desires to the truth or we conform the truth to our desires.

Os Guinness

Sin is any failure to conform to the moral law of God in act, attitude, or nature

Wayne Grudem

We want the children to conform; we want to control their minds, to shape their conduct, their way of living, so that they will fit into the pattern of society, That is what every parent wants, is it not? And that is exactly what is happening, whether it be in America or in Europe, in Russia or in India. The pattern may vary slightly, but they all want the child to conform.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Our value system must conform to His. Our actions must conform to our values.

L. Tom Perry

[An engineer's] invention causes things to come into existence from ideas, makes world conform to thought; whereas science, by deriving ideas from observation, makes thought conform to existence.

Carl Mitcham

Sanity is a matter of culture and convention. If it's a crazy culture you live in, then you have to be irrational to want to conform. A completely rational person would recognize that the culture was crazy and refuse to conform. But by not conforming, he is the one who would be judged crazy by that particular society.

Margaret Millar

For the wise men of old, the cardinal problem of human life was how to conform the soul to objective reality, and the solution was wisdom, self-discipline, and virtue. For the modern, the cardinal problem is how to conform reality to the wishes of man, and the solution is a technique.