Quotes about Maturity
Maturity is produced through relationships and community.
— Rick Warren
Jesus taught that spiritual maturity is never an end in itself. Maturity is for ministry! We grow up in order to give out. It is not enough to keep learning more and more. We must act on what we know and practice what we claim to believe.
— Rick Warren
Imagine how much needless frustration could be avoided if we learned from each other's life lessons. Mature people develop the habit of extracting lessons from everyday experiences.
— Rick Warren
We bring God glory by becoming like Christ.
— Rick Warren
Genuine surrender says, "Father, if this problem, pain, sickness, or circumstance is needed to fulfill your purpose and glory in my life or in another's, please don't take it away." This level of maturity does not come easy.
— Rick Warren
Knowledge increases responsibility.
— Rick Warren
Longing for the ideal while criticizing the real is evidence of immaturity. On the other hand, settling for the real without striving for the ideal is complacency. Maturity is living with the tension.
— Rick Warren
If there be any thing a man might well pray against, that thing is the responsive gratification of some of the devoutest prayers of his youth.
— Herman Melville
Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.
— Brian Tracy
The child is father of the man: And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.
— William Wordsworth
Small minds cannot grasp great subjects.
— St. Jerome
Behave like men, and not like witless sheep...
— Dante Alighieri