Quotes about Maturity

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

A good and true woman is said to resemble a Cremona fiddle: age but increases its worth and sweetens its tone.

Relish love in our old age! Aged love is like aged wine; it becomes more satisfying, more refreshing, more valuable, more appreciated and more intoxicating!

Like some wines, our love could neither mature nor travel.

How is it then that your theologians drivel like people in their second childhood.

I learned to walk as a baby and I haven't had a lesson since.

Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.

Be too great, like the Sun, to retaliate when lesser men throw stones at you.

When bad things happen to you, become wiser, not bitter.

Others admit that God may enjoy them on earth, but only if they are as spiritually mature as the apostle Paul. But the truth is that God will enjoy us while we mature. The knowledge of this is a vital key to turning sincere desire into spiritual maturity.

Our spiritual health and maturity depend upon knowing that God enjoys us, for it addresses the fear of rejection within our hearts. The fear of rejection and the trauma of shame are the most powerful emotions in the human spirit.

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.