Quotes about Maturity

Those who tread 'adult' as a term of approval cannot hope to be considered adult themselves. When I became a man I put away childish things, along with the desire to be very grown up.

There are three things against which the wise man guards: lust when young, quarrels when strong, and covetousness when old.

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

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.

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.

You take all the experience and judgment of men over 50 out of the world and there wouldn't be enough left to run it.

Man is at the bottom an animal, midway a citizen, and at the top divine. But the climate of this world is such that few ripen at the top.

Fools despise wisdom and instruction" (Prov. 1:7), but it is the nature of true godliness, maturity, and health in church members to accept the loving instruction and rebuke of others.

It is normal for Christians to grow, to work for growth, and to expect increasing spiritual maturity.

Each year I have grown and learned new things.

This late age of the world's experience had bred in them all, all men and women, a well of tears.

When she looked in the glass and saw her hair grey her cheek sunk, at fifty, she thought, possibly she might have managed things better--her husband; money; his books. But for her own part she would never for a single second regret her decision, evade difficulties, or slur over duties