Quotes about Maturity
The worst thing that can happen to a man or a woman, is for them to succeed before they are ready.
— RT Kendall
When we can achieve calm and repose while those around us are losing their heads and blaming things on us, we are beginning to grow.
— RT Kendall
The central mark of a maturing Christian, and of a maturing congregation, is that they increasingly love others as Christ loves them.
— Gregory Boyd
Men and women are most alike at their most mature and soulful levels. Men and women are most different only at their most immature and merely physical levels.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Can you be more saved than you were the first day of your salvation? No. But can a person grow in salvation? Absolutely. It, like marriage, is a done deal and a daily development.
— Max Lucado
God's grace turns out men and women with a strong family likeness to Jesus Christ, not milksops.
— Oswald Chambers
No more hiding. No more pretending to be something she wasn't. She would wear an older woman's clothes, but she would wear them in such a way that she was honest with herself, with others, and with God. She was a teenager who had been left behind, but she was also one who had seen what was right and acted upon it. She belonged to God now, and she would present herself to him as she really was.
— Jerry B. Jenkins
We need to hold together all of the stages of life, and for some strange, wonderful reason, it all becomes quite "simple" as we approach our later years.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Notice how those who have medicated away their hardships with illegal drugs, alcohol, or sex can seem immature. They may look forty-five, but they have the character of an adolescent. Find a person who has weathered storms rather than avoided them and you will find someone who is wise.
— Edward Welch
There are many who profess Christ, but who never become mature Christians.
— Ellen White
Most people don't grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging.
— Maya Angelou
If we have the Word without the Spirit, we dry up. If we have the Spirit without the Word, we blow up. But if we have the Word and the Spirit, we grow up.
— Mike Bickle