Quotes about Maturity

first book of Corinthians: "When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

To evolve out of this position of psychological immaturity to the courage of self-responsibility and assurance requires a death and a resurrection. That's the basic motif of the universal hero's journey—leaving one condition and finding the source of life to bring you forth into a richer or mature condition.

By the time it came to the edge of the Forest, the stream had grown up, so that it was almost a river, and, being grown-up, it did not run and jump and sparkle along as it used to do when it was younger, but moved more slowly. For it knew now where it was going, and it said to itself, "There is no hurry. We shall get there some day." But all the little streams higher up in the Forest went this way and that, quickly, eagerly, having so much to find out before it was too late.

When I was young, I used to admire intelligent people; as I grow older, I admire kind people.

I have learned that I really do have discipline, self-control, and patience. But they were given to me as a seed, and it's up to me to choose to develop them.

The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties.

Again, the emphasis of the language warns against regression, for it literally reads, "You have become having need of milk, not solid food."4 They had begun to eat solid food early on but were now back on the bottle. The truth is, there is simply no such thing as a static Christian. We either move forward or fall back. We are either climbing or falling. We are either winning or losing. Static, status quo Christianity is a delusion!

The worse thing that can happen to a man or a woman, is for them to succeed before they are ready.

When we can achieve calm and repose while those around us are losing their heads and blaming things on us, we are beginning to grow.

Because we are more adult than actually mature, we tend to take our sins and baptize them, dressing them up as spiritual maturity.

Is it possible that we never feel grown-up because, as our capabilities increased with age, so increased our responsibilities?