Quotes about Maturity

The art of avoiding extremes is an art that is drawn on the canvas of maturity and painted with the abstract strokes of many experiences.

Wisdom is oft-times nearer when we stoop Than when we soar.

For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.

Faith is the key to a successful Christian life. It enables you to reach out and accept the gift of salvation. And it is faith that takes you by the hand and walks you from one level of spiritual maturity to another. That is why the Word of God says, "Without faith it is impossible to please God" (Hebrews 11:6).

To write all things in a book is to leave a sword in the hands of a child.

Sometimes arriving too quickly is detrimental. It is dangerous to arrive without our character mature or intact.

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.

Christians already? It seems to me that it takes a lifetime of work.

Man matures through work which inspires him to difficult good.

We postpone our literary work until we have more ripeness and skill to write, and we one day discover that our literary talent wasa youthful effervescence which we have now lost.

I definitely would never go back to my 20s. The best is yet to come.

Every good choice makes the next one easier and more delightful.