Quotes About Maturity

Marriage is about learning to share and step out of your childish world of self-love.

Maturity should become our daily practices and never to allow any immature thought to penetrate through the mind without our knowledge of its presence.

One does not automatically become wise in old age. Only when self-interest and greed are thrown out the window. Thus, purifying your heart and your thoughts.

Pure philosophy is not for the impulsive souls. People who are still offended by simple words or a finger pointed at them.

Sometimes your age, too young or too old, can be the barrier to your lack of understanding of some deeper concepts.

The act of divorce shows the immaturity of the human being in love. We think and imagine that we know so much about love, but we don't know anything at all.

The lives of the living are still in their immature state, still growing.

The wiser we become, the more we do our best to keep a great distance between ourselves and love.

There is no responsibility when you are still living in your parents' shadow.

Those who attain wisdom in old age; their youth has been consumed by ignorance.

Those who continue to pretend they had no choice, they are simply saying that they are still mentally immature to make their own decisions in life.

We must not, at any cost, behave like little children who are ready to take credit for good deeds but run away wherever evil ones appear.

You cannot live your whole life nor base it on the assumption that someone else is going to carry your responsibilities at the finish line.

You must be willing to pay the price of being called an "adult". Stop and reflect upon your life.

Erwachsene! Was für ein trauriger Haufen. Verstehen nichts. Kein Wunder, dass es auf der Welt die ganze Zeit drunter und drüber geht.

We have to grow into Scripture, like a young boy inheriting his older brother's clothes and flopping around in them, but he gradually builds out and grows up. Perhaps it's a measure of our maturity when parts of Scripture that we found odd or even repellent suddenly come up in a new light. Our sense is overtaken by a sense of the whole thing, wide, multicolored, and unspeakably powerful.

It is true, then, that as soon as someone becomes a Christian, he or she can and must say `Our Father'; that is one of the marks of grace, one of the first signs of faith. But it will take full Christian maturity to understand, and resonate with, what those words really mean.

Perhaps, indeed, that is what "holy scripture" really is — not a calm, serene list of truths to be learned or commands to be obeyed, but a jagged book that forces you to grow up in your thinking as you grapple with it.

How would you describe a mature person?

Paul does of course want the young Christians to develop to the point where, as mature followers of Jesus Christ, they will gradually find that the Christian habits of heart and life "come naturally." But to get to that point they must learn

At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic.

Shooting her as close as Aodhan ever came to a glare, he said, "Illium is a bad influence on you." "Way I hear it, he's been a bad influence on you since you were tiny tots.

Max saw the stranger give him the once-over, recognised it for what it was. Women had been making him offers since before he was legal. And he'd learned to turn them down without hurting their feelings ...

In our terms, you are a baby and I am robbing the cradle.