Quotes about Development

We don't mature momentarily, but over the long-term.

When you have a kid, you have to be more mature.

If you don't feel safe as a child, you can't learn.

The aim is not therefore to liberate some 'essential self' by throwing off the burden of government and the State, but to develop the self in creative and voluntary relations with others.

Be willing to tolerate the discomfort necessary for growth.

Grow me, I pray, into an emotionally mature adult through the Holy Spirit's power.

Is it any wonder that most people live off other people's spirituality rather than taking the time to develop their own direct experience of God? Most Christians talk about prayer but don't pray. Most believe the Bible as the Word of God but have little idea what it says. Our goals for our children differ little from those of "pagans" who do not known God. Like the world, we, too, grade people based on their education, wealth, beauty, and popularity.

Sadly, some of our misguided Christian beliefs and expectations have, as Thomas Merton wrote, "merely deadened our humanity, instead of setting it free to develop richly, in all its capacities, under the influence of grace.

A child doesn't say, "What's wrong with this environment where I am growing up?" They think, What's wrong with me?

Thus, disciplining ourselves to invest time, energy, and money in personal development is not a selfish indulgence, but one of the most loving things we offer to those we serve. Team

I think everything that any actor does, I would assume, is shaped by how and where they grew up.

Apparently the most permanent of the dispositions of the human psyche are those that derive from the fact that, of all animals, we remain the longest at the mother breast.