Quotes about Maturity
When Sporos Deepens," Proginoskes told Mr. Jenkins, "it means that he comes of age. It means that he grows up. 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. A fara or a man or a star has his place in the universe, but nothing created is the center.
— Madeleine L'Engle
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
Time does not create changes, wisdom does. Your wisdom decides the quality of your decisions.
— Mensah Oteh
Don't try to get even with those who wrong you, get ahead.
— Mensah Oteh
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