Quotes about Maturity

I came into this music business at 26 years old. I was a fully developed man at that point. At that age, I didn't have anything to prove.

The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them.

Is that too innocence, when the fountain of milk is flowing in rich abundance, not to endure one to share it, though in extremest need, and whose very life as yet depends thereon? We bear gently with all this, not as being no or slight evils, but because they will disappear as years increase; for, though tolerated now, the very same tempers are utterly intolerable when found in riper years.

Passing hence from infancy, I came to boyhood, or rather it came to me, displacing infancy. Nor did that depart,—(for whither went it?)—and yet it was no more.

The truth is that it is our attitude towards children that is right, and our attitude towards grown-up people that is wrong.

If you want to become fully mature in the Lord, you must learn to love truth. Otherwise, you will always leave open a door of deception for the enemy to take what is meant to be yours.

As you get older, life gets harder if you're not applying spiritual truths.

I covet truth; beauty is unripe childhood's cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth.

It is my feeling that Time ripens all things with Time all things are revealed Time is the father of truth.

At a certain point people need more than vision.

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.

You'll have to learn to control your emotions. They're new, like achild's now, bursting with passion. Never let them fade, or part of you will die. But they cal also destroy you. Hold them dear, but don't let them take hold of you.