Quotes About Maturity

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

A man is getting old when he walks around a puddle instead of through it.

You're younger, you might want to go to clubs and kick it, but as you get older, you start seeing that life has more meaning to it. The people that you love are the people you want to start trusting and start wanting them to trust you and start respecting them.

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!

Sometimes grownups forget stuff they've said.

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.

He did not look so old, since age generally follows on tailoring. He did not look so terribly well bred, since class follows the same rules.

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.

I don't know who said it first, but the following is good advice: If you do nothing but read your Bible, you will dry up; if you only pray, you will blow up; but if you read your Bible and pray, you will grow up.

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

Her appearance has changed as well, and I don't mean just the intense reticulation of lines and wrinkles, the true stigmata of life.

Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

Man is a born child, his power is the power of growth.

My life when young was like a flower—a flower that loosens a petal or two from her abundance and never feels the loss when the spring breeze comes to beg at her door. Now at the end of youth my life is like a fruit, having nothing to spare, and waiting to offer herself completely with her full burden of sweetness.

But there are ideals which do not play hide-and-seek with our life; they slowly grow from seed to flower, from flower to fruit; they require infinite space and heaven's light to mature, and the fruits that they produce can survive years of insult and neglect.

Goodness,' Myrnin said quietly. 'I don't think I should be watching this. I don't think I'm old enough.

If you want to cry go ahead. Son, there are just some time in a man's life when he has to let it out.

Spaniards have always shown great maturity and great common sense when it comes to voting.

We know that at 17 a young person's brain is still developing. We recognize this when it comes to voting, joining the military, or even buying a lottery ticket.