Quotes About Maturity

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.

50, there is a new warmth and mellowing. Friends become more important than ever, but so does privacy. Since it is so often proclaimed by people past midlife, the motto of this stage might be "No more bullshit.

He was cocky. It would have been easy not to like him. But he was also kind, and that excused much. Kind, and...a little bit sad, somehow. I didn't understand that about him back then. But we were just kids.

When you're young, you can excuse many things, hoping they will strengthen with time.

We've all done this, because we're so mature. You see a cow on the side of the road, stick your head out the window and go "Mooo!" Like we expect the cow to think, "Hey, there's another cow, driving that car! How can he afford that?"

Men are only so much use. Men are boys.

You know," he said, "at some point you're going to realize that being a smart-ass isn't as much about being smart as it is about being an ass." "That's good," I said. "Did you read that in a fortune cookie?

You know," he said, "at some point you're going to realize that being a smart-ass isn't as much about being smart as it is about being an ass.

It wasn't not being famous any more, or even not being a recording artist. It was having nobody who needed me, no phones ringing, nothing to do. Because I'm still too young to do nothing. I was only 24 when all that happened. Now, at 40, I feel I've got more to give than I ever have.

Real love" - "This kind of love is emotional in nature but not obsessional. It is a love that unites reason and emotion. It involves an act of the will and requires discipline, and it recognizes the need for personal growth.

Learn everything you can - everything. And then use all that you have learned to grow up too be a wise and good man.

Sometimes I heed the Spirit's desire, and sometimes I don't. Spiritual maturity is not getting to the point where you no longer experience this tension. Rather, maturity is becoming more sensitive to it and choosing more consistently to trust the leadership and empowering of God's Spirit—by stepping out in the midst of fear, aversion, and inadequacy to serve.

Here I sit with a thirty-six-year-old lust, and a three-year-old dinky.

Tener hijos nos hace madurar. Cuidar un animal nos hace más humanos

Any mature, spiritually sensitive view of marriage must be built on the foundation of mature love rather than romanticism. But this immediately casts us into a countercultural pursuit.

With Christ in us and the Holy Spirit transforming us, we really have no excuse for continuing immaturity.

We realize it's not about what we get out of our marriage but about what we become in our marriage.

The desire for ease, comfort, and stress-free living is an indirect desire to remain an "unseasoned," immature Christian.

Would I rather live a life of comfort and remain immature in Christ, or am I willing to be seasoned with suffering if by doing so I am conformed to the image of Christ?

I may not receive any new insights and God may not feel particularly close. This has taught me that the demand for spiritual experience can be as gluttonous as the desire for food, money, or sex. Desire for spiritual highs needs to be contained so that we can develop other parts of our being.

getting married won't make you happy or an adult; getting married simply makes you … married.

A Christian is never dependent on the response of others to grow spiritually. It's our own heart's decisions that matter.

We realize it's not about what we get out of our marriage but about what we become in our marriage.

The desire for ease, comfort, and stress-free living is an indirect desire to remain an "unseasoned," immature Christian. Struggle makes us stronger; it builds us up and deepens our faith.