Quotes about Maturity

We received it by asking. This means that even very gifted people are not necessarily mature Christians. They may not even have good character. Therefore, the gifts of the Spirit do not validate our walk with God.

Much of late modernity assumes that dependence on God is a mark of human immaturity and an obstacle to human freedom. The life of Karol Wojtyla and his accomplishment as Pope John Paul II suggest a dramatic, alternative possibility: that a man who has been seized and transformed by the "more excellent way" can bend the curve of history so that freedom's cause is advanced.

It is often better not to see an insult, than to avenge it.

Grow up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.

It is unjust to claim the privileges of age and retain the playthings of childhood.

At thirty a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities. ... And above all, accept these things.

But he cannot see a connection between the end of yearning and the end of poetry. Is that what growing up amounts to: growing out of yearning, of passion, of all intensities of the soul?

Technically he is old enough to be her father; but then, technically one can be a father at twelve.

With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

Don't wish it was easier wish you were better. Don't wish for less problems wish for more skills. Don't wish for less challenge wish for more wisdom

Maturity is a compound of wisdom, goodwill, resilience, and creativity.