Quotes about Maturity

Not keeping a record of wrongs is also a refusal to keep a record of the things you have done right. It is just as dishonoring to God's grace to keep a record of your rights as it is to keep a record of others' wrongs. Why? Because it is a form of self-exaltation. You are implicitly saying, "I told you so," in order to make someone else look bad. It takes spiritual maturity to refrain from saying, "I told you so.

Dr. Lloyd-Jones used to say, "The worst thing that can happen to a man is to succeed before he is ready.

As Dr. Lloyd-Jones used to say, "The worst thing that can happen to a man is to succeed before he is ready.

Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.

I realized I can do other things. I started developing opinions on serious matters and it's not all sugar and spice.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

Never read a book that is not a year old.

Years teach much which the days never knew.

Don't trust children with edge tools. Don't trust man, great God, with more power than he has until he has learned to use that little better. What a hell we should make of the world if we could do what we would!

We can't surrender to the culture. We've minimized the role of fathers, so we've created a generation of barbarians, children who become men without growing up. They stay in boyhood through their 20s and 30s, sometimes their whole lives. They think of themselves first, indulge in pornography, do what they feel like, leave their wives, and culture, and churches to raise their children.

Think long and hard whether you have reached that mature stage of selflessness for this one you think you love so much. The love you enjoy will be the best thing that ever happened to you, but it will cost you your independence.... The responsibility of marriage and family demands time, and when we cheat on that, we rob ourselves of the investment returns.

The tragedy with growing up is not that we lose childishness in its simplicity, but that we lose childlikeness in its sublimity.