Quotes about Maturity

Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That's the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don't grow up.

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman. But an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any force.

Problems patiently endured will work for our spiritual perfecting.

The movement toward gratitude, authenticity, and union is the natural and organic inner work of the second half of our lives.

I am still learning.

Weak and needy people finding their hope in Christ's grace are what mark a mature relationship. The most dangerous aspect of your relationships is not your weakness, but your delusions of strength. Self-reliance is almost always a component of a bad relationship. While

Imagination opens things up so that we can grow into maturity—worship and adore, exclaim and honor, follow and trust. Explanation restricts and defines and holds down; imagination expands and lets loose. Explanation keeps our feet on the ground; imagination lifts our heads into the clouds. Explanation puts us in harness; imagination catapults us into mystery. Explanation reduces life to what can be used; imagination enlarges life into what can be adored.

Along with that, the Bible continually reminds us that God sends the uncomfortable grace of trial not to crush or discourage us, but to mature and refine us. As we are realistic about difficulty, that needs to be our hope.

Knowledge of doctrine is not the same as Christian maturity and victory over sin.

The fatal flaw of human wisdom is that it promises that you can change your relationships without needing to change yourself. When

When we choose to practice true forgiveness, the relationship is not just brought back to where it was before the offense; it actually moves further down the road to maturity.

The health and maturity of a relationship are not measured by an absence of problems, but by the way the inevitable problems are handled.