Quotes about Maturity

Of the few innocent pleasures left to men past middle life, the jamming of common sense down the throats of fools is perhaps the keenest.

The bulk of mankind are schoolboys through life.

It seems the older you get, the more life comes into focus.

We need theology in addition to Scripture because God has authorized teaching in the church, and because we need that teaching to mature in the faith.

If we hold tightly to anything given to us unwilling to allow it to be used as the Giver means it to be used we stunt the growth of the soul. What God gives us is not necessarily "ours" but only ours to offer back to him, ours to relinguish, ours to lose, ours to let go of, if we want to be our true selves. Many deaths must go into reaching our maturity in Christ, many letting goes.

I never thought getting older would be so great. But when it comes to depression, I have experienced less the older I've gotten.

I always feel that until you take your last breath, you're always growing.

It was said of him, that Lydgate could do anything he liked, but he had certainly not yet liked to do anything remarkable. He was a vigorous animal with a ready understanding, but no spark had yet kindled in him an intellectual passion; knowledge seemed to him a very superficial affair, easily mastered: judging from the conversation of his elders, he had apparently got already more than was necessary for mature life.

Likewise today, some Christians are content to merely exist until they die. They don't want to risk anything, to believe God, to grow or mature. They refuse to believe his Word, and have become hardened in their unbelief. Now they're living just to die.

Christians are not born but made.

The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.