Quotes about Maturity

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?

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!