Maturity Quotes

You know your Bible too well and life too little.

~ Richard Llewellyn

The evangelical wing of the Church spends a lot of energy on being born again but little time on growing up again. There is a failing to encourage newborn believers out of the maternity ward and into a big world where they will spend the rest of their spiritual lives trying to find what they are looking for.

~ Steve Stockman

Spiritual maturity is not reached by the passing of the years, but by obedience to the will of God. Some people mature into an understanding of God’s will more quickly than others because they obey more readily; they more readily sacrifice the life of nature to the will of God.

~ Oswald Chambers

There are no shortcuts to maturity in discipleship; it was, is, and always will be learned over time and under pressure walking in union with Christ.~R. Alan Woods [2013]

~ R. Alan Woods

It takes a while for revelry to turn to reverence, and much repetition of truth to eventual turn young zeal into habitual channels for good.

~ Elisabeth Elliot

I tried desperately to put my thoughts into the forms of prayers, but I didn't know how. If God was real, I figured He was powerful enough to know what I wanted without me actually saying the right words.

~ Richelle Mead

Childhood and adulthood were not factors of age but states of mind.

~ Alex Shakar

At thirty a man suspects himself a fool;Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan;At fifty chides his infamous delay,Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve;In all the magnanimity of thoughtResolves; and re-resolves; then dies the same.

~ Edward Young

He had the beginning of wrinkles and the easy manner of one who has already made his mistakes.

~ Donald Kingsbury

Maturity turns out to be a question you can never answer with confidence, despite advanced age and wage.

~ Brian Doyle

Chronologically she is twelve but emotionally she is older, and intellectually older still.

~ Dean Koontz

Age brings maturity, experience ripens it.

~ Vimal Athithan

Like the culture that created me, I am receding into the past at a rate of knots. Soon I'll need a whole row of footnotes if anybody under thirty-five is going to comprehend the least thing I say.

~ Angela Carter

Most people believe the journey they begin with Christ goes forward, but that is not how he works. A spiritual life is not cutting ties with people, in order to walk clean in the future. The journey home isn't running away from obstacles. It is learning to stand where you are now and handle people, assert yourself, set boundaries and never feel your happiness is dependent on another person's approval of your choices, beliefs or spiritual needs.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Just out of high school, you didn't realize you were creating drama for the sake of drama.

~ Donald Miller

A spirit of satirical frivolity so dominated Britain in the 1960s that one critic feared the country would sink giggling into the sea.

~ John O'sullivan

He had always imagined that some sort of emotional mental equipment was meant to arrive, when he was forty-five, say, or fifty, a kind of kit that would enable him to deal with the impending loss of a parent. If he were only in possession of this equipment, he would be just fine. He would be noble and selfless, wise and philosophical. Perhaps he would even have kids of his own, and would presumably possess the kind of maturity that comes with fatherhood, the understanding of life as a process.

~ David Nicholls

...You are a little boy. You want the moon to drink from as a golden cup; and so, it is very likely that you will become a great man -- if only you remain a little child. All the world'sgreat have been little boys who wanted the moon; running and climbing, they sometimes catch a firefly. But if one grow to a man's mind, that mind must see that it cannot have the moon and would not want it if it could -- and so, it catches no fireflies.' [Merlin]

~ John Steinbeck

Maturity is about Challenging yourself and Improving!And then taking that experience to help others...

~ Tsem Tulku Rinpoche

Most students have to do some work to resuscitate their childlike curiosity. The best way to do that is to start asking questions again—lots of them.

~ Hal B. Gregersen

Old timidity has disappeared, and is replaced by silent, quaint fun, with which his face twinkles all over, as he listens.

~ Thomas Hughes

Maturity is when you no longer get the urge to make snow angels in mud season

~ Josh Stern

The three phases of Santa belief: (1) Santa is real.(2) Santa isn't real.(3) Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.

~ Alton Thompson

To find perfect ripeness, catch it.

~ Khang Kijarro Nguyen

We become increasingly aware that the human dream, the human drama, with all its questionable, damaging, and often malevolent intention is not real life at all.

~ Donna Goddard

I'm not ready to let the youthful part of myself go yet. If maturity means becoming a cynic, if you have to kill the part of yourself that is naive and romantic and idealistic - the part of you that you treasure most - to claim maturity, is it not better to die young but with your humanity intact?

~ Kenneth Cain

But I knew it was pure masturbation, because down in my gut I wanted nothing more than a clean bed and a bright room and something solid to call my own at least until I got tired of it. There was an awful suspicion in my mind that I'd finally gone over the hump, and the worst thing about it was that I didn't feel tragic at all, but only weary, and sort of comfortably detatched.

~ Hunter S. Thompson

Hi,’ Jake said. ‘I met you earlier today, but you were a lot younger then.’ ‘I was a lot younger ten minutes ago.

~ Stephen King

Wart meets Merlin for the first time – only for Merlin, who lives backwards, it's the last time. The old wizard weeps and the boy can't understand why. It's a powerful expression of the gulf between the ancient and the young.

~ Philip Womack

She had not been conferred with a practical sense of how one went about this strange and all inverted business of being a girl, where seemingly natural stuff like going on about all the great things you just learned about Siberian tigers on National Geographic was suddenly weird, but totally weird stuff in and of itself like drawing around your eyeball with a pencil became normal, and it impressed to no end that it was a product of meticulous effort that made the twins seem so perfectly and effortlessly feminine.

~ Brian Mcgreevy

-just on the verge ofbecoming a woman, and in these three years and almost five months, I'dreached maturity. I was older than the mountains outside. The wisdomof the attic was in my bones, etched on my brain, part of my flesh.

~ V.c. Andrews

Apply expectations appropriately. Do not assume [all] adults are as grown up and mature as they should be, or appear to be.

~ T.f. Hodge

If you’re any good at all, you know you can be better.

~ Lindsay Buckingham

The job wouldn't be just put the summer, but for a long time, as long as she could see ahead. Once they were used to the money coming in it would be impossible to do without again.

~ Carson Mccullers

Being popular or not, having company or being alone, are not issues of concern for the developed soul.

~ Donna Goddard

Children have empty erasable white boards upon which big people write indelibly imprinted messages into their tender subconscious minds.

~ David W. Earle

Maturity refers to having a sound understanding of basics and making a fair judgment.

~ Pearl Zhu

Now is the time of fresh startsThis is the season that makes everything new.There is a longstanding rumor that Spring is the timeof renewal, but that's only if you ignore the depressingclutter and din of the season. All that floweringand budding and birthing--- the messy youthfulnessof Spring actually verges on squalor. Spring is too busy,too full of itself, too much like a 20-year-old to be the best time for reflection, re-grouping, and starting fresh. For that you need December. You need to have lived through the mindless biological imperatives of your life (to bud, and flower, and show off) before you can see that a landscape of new fallen snow is THE REAL YOU.December has the clarity, the simplicity, and the silence you need for the best FRESH START of your life.

~ Vivian Swift

A measured response trumps a triggered reaction every time. Breathe first.

~ Rev. Alexander

There are some questions that shouldn't be asked until a person is mature enough to appreciate the answers.

~ Anne Bishop