Quotes About Maturity

If we have the Word without the Spirit, we dry up. If we have the Spirit without the Word, we blow up. But if we have the Word and the Spirit, we grow up." In this way we can walk together in the fresh move of the Holy Spirit.

When disciples are in stage three, the concept that sets them free is "God is in charge." They have to acknowledge grace and begin to work it into their lifestyle. This is not easy for most of us, but it is the one thing that will move us on to growth and maturity.

Just because you liked something as a youngster doesn't mean you have to like it as an adult. You can change your taste a little bit on the sweets and things like that.

Young souls use pain to learn how things are. Mature souls use pain to learn how else things might be. And old souls, , use pain to learn how else they might be.

The idea that life and consciousness was bestowed on us by a God whose brilliance accounts for the entire universe—but possesses the emotional maturity of a 12-year-old—is shockingly illogical.

The more we grow, the longer we walk with Him, the bigger Jesus should get.

Because the universal truth of getting older is obvious: IF YOU ARE A LOSER AT FORTY YOU WILL BE A LOSER FOR LIFE.

Your heart doesn't flutter like that of a fourteen-year-old girl's when you aren't fourteen anymore.

It doesn't matter how old or young you are: The truth will always catch up with you eventually...Best thing is to own the truth from the start, whether you like it or not.

Far as I'm concerned, friendship between black and white don't mean that much 'cause it usually ain't on a equal basis. Right now you and Jeremy might get along fine, but in a few years he'll think of himself as a man but you'll probably still be a boy to him. And if he feels that way, he'll turn on you in a minute.

At the age of 16 I was already dreaming of having a baby because I felt myself to be an adult, but my mum forbid it. Right now, I feel like a teenager and I want to have fun for one or two more years before starting a family.

will one day have a fine figure, but for now,

she was sixteen years old, not a scared child.

Clean up your own mess. Your mama don't live here

On differences between men and boys) Men know what they want. Men make concrete plans. Men own alarm clocks. Men sleep on a mattress that isn't on the floor. Men tip generously. Men buy new shampoo instead of adding water to a nearly empty bottle of shampoo. Men go to the dentist. Men make reservations. Men go in for a kiss without giving you some long preamble about how they're thinking of kissing you. Men wear clothes that have never been worn by anyone else before.

And these days, I find I'm caring less and less about what people think of me. Maybe it's my age, maybe it's my security in my career, maybe it's because I'm skrilla flush with that dollah-dollah-bill-y'all, but if I had to identify my overall feeling these days, it's much more "Eh, screw it. Here's how I really feel.

Teenage girls, please don't worry about being super popular in high school, or being the best actress in high school, or the best athlete. Not only do people not care about any of that the second you graduate, but when you get older, if you reference your successes in high school too much, it actually makes you look kind of pitiful, like some babbling old Tennessee Williams character with nothing else going on in her current life.

If my childhood, teens, and twenties were about wanting people to like me, now I want people to know me. So,

This story didn't end in fireworks, because the truth is, fireworks are something from my twenties. I could have made fireworks, but I chose to make a nuanced memory of a person who is neither a hero nor a villain in my life.

almost no one who was a big star in high school is also big star later in life. For us overlooked kids, it's so wonderfully fair. I

but when you get older, if you reference your successes in high school too much, it actually makes you look kind of pitiful, like some babbling old Tennessee Williams character with nothing else going on in her current life.

But a guy at thirty-two—he can act and dress like a grown man or a thirteen-year-old boy, and both are totally acceptable.

Ara faig d'angle estèril de la llum. Si em criden, tanmateix, diré que encara no estic a punt, que tinc certes foteses per endegar, mig de nit, mig de dia, que de moment, sisplau, amb mi no hi comptin, que encara em queda molt passat per viure.

el escritor es un inimputable, como lo es un niño o un loco. Puede perpetrar actos trascendentales de consecuencias cataclísmicas, pero como un menor de edad que no calcula las consecuencias por falta de madurez, el escritor debe ser absuelto cuando se constate que de modo impredecible e involuntario ha cambiado el devenir natural de las cosas.