Quotes about Maturity
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
Infantile people complain and say that God is cruel or that there is no God. Mature people, however, know that there is wisdom and sometimes an eternal kindness in God's refusals.
- Norman Vincent Peale
She was crude, but loyal. He began to understand her even better than before. A pity she was so old; it was too late to try to make a human being of her.
- Elias Canetti
Our ethics are not meant to be created in our childhoods and shoved in a box somewhere; they must be reshaped daily, as we encounter scenarios that challenge our beliefs.
- Elie Wiesel