Quotes About Maturity

Luulen että juuri se teki minusta aikuisen, se oivallus että raakuus on yhdistettävissä nauruun.

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

Pour un être conscient, exister consiste à changer, changer à se mûrir, se mûrir à se créer indéfiniment soi-même.

There is within you a lamb and a lion. Spiritual maturity is the ability to let lamb and lion lie down together.

The world says, "When you were young you were dependent and could not go where you wanted, but when you grow old you will be able to make your own decisions, go your own way, and control your own destiny." But Jesus has a different vision of maturity: It is the ability and willingness to be led where you would rather not go.

Deep and mature friendship does not mean that we keep looking each other in the eyes, constantly impressed or enraptured by each other's beauty, talents, and gifts, but it does mean that together we look at the one who calls us to a life of service.

when we listen to the Spirit, we hear a deeper sound, a different beat. ...Living a spiritually mature life requires listening to God's voice within and among us.

Hope does not mean that we will avoid or be able to ignore suffering, of course. Indeed, hope born of faith becomes matured and purified through difficulty. The surprise we experience in hope, then, is not that, unexpectedly, things turn out better than expected.

Hope does not mean that we will avoid or be able to ignore suffering, of course. Indeed, hope born of faith becomes matured and purified through difficulty. The surprise we experience in hope, then, is not that, unexpectedly, things turn out better than expected. For even when they do not, we can still live with a keen hope. The basis of our hope has to do with the One who is stronger than life and suffering. Faith opens us up to God's sustaining, healing presence.

Personally I believe that being an elder can be a real grace. After having seen so much of life and having "made it" in so many ways there is still that possibility of growing into a second childhood, a second naiveté. I think that is quite an exciting possibility and I pray that God will allow you to be reborn in such a new way of being.

Heb 5,14, como un ejercicio de los espiritualmente maduros «que, por la costumbre, tienen las facultades ejercitadas en el discernimiento del bien y del mal»;

We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.

I want the flower and fruit of a man; that some fragrance be wafted over from him to me, and some ripeness flavor our intercourse.

I am thinking by what long discipline and at what cost a man learns to speak simply at last.

The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed

One can't judge till one's forty; before that we're too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.

The years have touched her only to enrich her; the flower of her youth had not faded; it only hung more quietly on its stem.

was after all a rather mature blossom, such as could be plucked from the stem only by a vigorous jerk.

I might show it to you, but you'd never see it. The privilege isn't given to every one; it's not enviable. It has never been seen by a young, happy, innocent person like you. You must have suffered first, have suffered greatly, have gained some miserable knowledge. In that way your eyes are opened to it.

She was too young, too impatient to live, too unacquainted with pain.

The years has touched her only to enrich her; the flower of her youth had not faded; it only hung more quietly on its stem.

I just say this: that I think it's a great gain, early in life, to know the worst; then we don't live in a fool's paradise.

Nora seemed by instinct to have perceived the fitness of her not speaking of her own affairs, and indeed displayed in the matter a precocious good taste.

But the blots, Turkey, intimated I. True,-but, with submission, sir, behold these hairs! I am getting old. Surely, sir, a blot or two of a warm afternoon is not to be severely urged against gray hairs. Old age-even if it blot the page-is honorable. With submission, sir, we both are getting old.