Quotes about Maturity

Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in us that we don't see in ourselves. Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself.

One of the ideas we must agree on and continue to forge with individual and collective vigor is that a woman's life goes uphill at forty.

we preach with the goal of spurring believers on in their maturity in Christ and of awakening nonbelievers to their need for the Savior.

The essence of masculinity is taking responsibility for yourself, then a wife, then children. These are the kinds of things the Bible says qualify a man to be a church leader.[198] Guys who don't do this act irresponsibly, take rather than give, and dump their responsibilities on others by virtue of their childish ways. This is why Jeremiah wrote, "It is good for a man to bear the yoke while he is young."[199] Men are like trucks: they drive straighter when carrying a load.

Because each of us is the sum of all we have ever experienced. Only the very young have a clean slate. The rest of us must live forever with everything we have ever been.

There are some trees, Watson, which grow to a certain height, and then suddenly develop some unsightly eccentricity. You will see it often in humans.

What is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?

The years teach us much, which the days never knew.

Maturity' really means: being very unsurprised by, and calm around, pain and disappointment.

We have largely traded wisdom for information, depth for breadth. We want to microwave maturity.

The pathway to maturity and to solid biblical food is not first becoming an intelligent person, but becoming an obedient person.

Sanctification in any area of our lives always expresses this double dimension—a putting off and a putting on, as it were. Speech and silence, appropriately expressed, are together the mark of the mature.3