Quotes about Maturity

Man is at the bottom an animal, midway a citizen, and at the top divine. But the climate of this world is such that few ripen at the top.

Fools despise wisdom and instruction" (Prov. 1:7), but it is the nature of true godliness, maturity, and health in church members to accept the loving instruction and rebuke of others.

It is normal for Christians to grow, to work for growth, and to expect increasing spiritual maturity.

Each year I have grown and learned new things.

This late age of the world's experience had bred in them all, all men and women, a well of tears.

When she looked in the glass and saw her hair grey her cheek sunk, at fifty, she thought, possibly she might have managed things better--her husband; money; his books. But for her own part she would never for a single second regret her decision, evade difficulties, or slur over duties

Sometimes men are still boys, only wearing bigger clothes, until God takes them by the suspenders and gives them a good shake.

There's no such thing is aging, but maturing and knowledge. It's beautiful, I call that beauty.

I am not old, but my young way was never the way to age.

Are you thankful for not being young?' 'Yes, sir. If I was young, it would all have to be gone through again, and the end would be a weary way off, don't you see?...

In short, I should have liked to have had the lightest license of a child, and yet be man enough to know its value

For again Scrooge saw himself. He was older now, a man in the prime of life. His face had not the harsh and rigid lines of later years, but it had begun to wear the signs of care and avarice. There was an eager, greedy, restless motion in the eye, which showed the passion that had taken root, and where the shadow of the growing tree would fall.