Quotes about Maturity

Men are wise in proportion not to their experience but to their capacity for experience.

God will test you because He wants you to mature. He wants you to develop a walk with Him that is not based on your fluctuating emotions, but on your commitment to Him as you learn to walk by faith.

An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties.

But in order to have an adult faith, most of us have to outgrow and unlearn much of what we were taught about religion.

I warmly commend it to all Christians who want to grow in their faith.

Moreover, I discovered that day that grown-ups could lie just as well as I, and it seemed to me that I could no longer feel quite safe with them.

When you're in your twenties, someone once wrote, you live to please other people. When you're in your thirties, you get tired of trying to please others, so you get miffed with them for making you worry about it. When you're in your forties, you realize nobody was thinking about you anyway.

I was too old for my father to (be protective), too young to be flattered.

I'm beginning to realize the pleasure of being a nothing-to-lose, take-no-shit older woman.

The willingness to forgive is a sign of spiritual and emotional maturity. It is one of the great virtues to which we all should aspire. Imagine a world filled with individuals willing both to apologize and to accept an apology. Is there any problem that could not be solved among people who possessed the humility and largeness of spirit and soul to do either -- or both -- when needed?

Gratitude is a sign of maturity...Where there is appreciation: there is also courtesy and concern for the rights and property of others.

No matter how old we become, we can acquire knowledge and use it. We can gather wisdom and profit from it. We can grow and progress and improve-and, in the process, strengthen the livs of those within our circle of influence.