Quotes about Maturity

I have since learned that the most mature believer is the one who is bent over, leaning most heavily on the Lord, and admitting his total inability to do anything without Christ. The greatest Christian is not the one who has achieved the most but rather the one who has received the most.

The old saying is true: If you have only the Word, you dry up. If you have only the Spirit, you blow up. But if you have both, you grow up.

Earlier in my life I thought the things that mattered were the things that you could see, like your car, your house, your wealth, your property, your office. But as I've grown older I've become convinced that the things that matter most are the things that you can't see -- the love you share with others, your inner purpose, your comfort with who you are.

Being bridled, or yielding obediently to restraint, is necessary for our personal growth and progression.

Indeed it is not usual for the young to grieve.

Sometimes life makes you older than your age.

Her body hovered delicately on the last edge of childhood—she was almost eighteen, nearly complete, but the dew was still on her.

Then I grew up, and the beauty of succulent illusions fell away from me.

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

It is a simple soul indeed to whom as many things are significant and meaningful at thirty as at ten years before.

In 1913, when Anthony Patch was twenty-five, two years were already gone since irony, the Holy Ghost of this later day, had, theoretically at least, descended upon him. Irony was the final polish of the shoe, the ultimate dab of the clothes-brush, a sort of intellectual There!—yet

Is your generation so soft that they talk of going to pieces if life doesn't always present itself in terms of beautiful, easy decisions?