Quotes about Maturity

The worst thing that can happen to a man or a woman, is for them to succeed before they are ready.

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.

When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also.

The central mark of a maturing Christian, and of a maturing congregation, is that they increasingly love others as Christ loves them.

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.

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.

God's grace turns out men and women with a strong family likeness to Jesus Christ, not milksops.

There are many who profess Christ, but who never become mature Christians.

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.

The mature Christians I have met along the way are those who have failed and have learned to live gracefully with their failure. Faithfulness requires the courage to risk everything on Jesus, the willingness to keep growing, and the readiness to risk failure throughout our lives.

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.

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.