Quotes about Maturity
The temptation for farandola or for man or for star is to stay an immature pleasure-seeker. When we seek our own pleasure as the ultimate good we place ourselves as the center of the universe
- Madeleine L'Engle
Why is it that some grown-ups just seem to go on getting dumber and dumber year by year instead of learning anything?
- Madeleine L'Engle
A life marked by daily answer to prayer is evidence of spiritual maturity.
- Andrew Murray
As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly.
- Samuel Johnson
To forgive and forget means to throw away dearly bought experience.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Physical growth is a function of time. No two-year-old child has ever been six feet tall. Intellectual growth is a function of learning. Spiritual growth is neither a function of time or learning, but it is a function of obedience.
- John Bevere
The Church is our mother, inasmuch as God has committed to her the kind office of bringing us up in the faith until we attain full age.
- John Calvin
The Christian life doesn't get easier as one gets older.
- Alan Redpath
Our only purpose in life is growth.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
- Dag Hammarskjold
With age comes the understanding and appreciation of your most important asset, your health.
- Oprah Winfrey
Another thing I liked about my Dad at church: he did his sleeping at home. He never used the church as an adult nursery.
- Vance Havner