Quotes about Maturity

The best way to progress is the path of freedom.

There is no situation under the sun in which your ability to respond can be taken away from you. You may not control your circumstances, but you control your reactions to them. And that is what sets the men apart from the boys!

We tend to view the goal as the goal, but in God's economy, the process is the goal. It's not about what we're doing at all; it's about who we're becoming in the process.

Spontaneity is an underappreciated dimension of spirituality. In fact, spiritual maturity has less to do with long-range visions than it does with moment-by-moment sensitivity to the promptings of the Holy Spirit. And it is our moment-by-moment sensitivity to the Holy Spirit that turns life into an everyday adventure.

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.

Old age hath yet his honour and his toil.

In the university of God, however brilliant you may be, you will not be given double promotion. You must take every course, because each course serves a purpose.

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

A good and true woman is said to resemble a Cremona fiddle: age but increases its worth and sweetens its tone.

Relish love in our old age! Aged love is like aged wine; it becomes more satisfying, more refreshing, more valuable, more appreciated and more intoxicating!

Like some wines, our love could neither mature nor travel.