Maturity Quotes - Page 2

True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends' boyfriend - and he accepts it

Self-knowledge is the first step to maturity.

It seems to me that the years between eighteen and twenty-eight are the hardest, psychologically. It’s then you realize this is make or break, you no longer have the excuse of youth, and it is time to become an adult – but you are not ready.

Mature people never make difference of opinion a means of conflict.

One of the greatest indicators of our own spiritual maturity is revealed in how we respond to the weaknesses, the inexperience, and the potentially offensive actions of others.

When a person becomes a Christian, he doesn’t just join a local church because it’s a good habit for growing in spiritual maturity. He joins a local church because it’s the expression of what Christ has made him—a member of the body of Christ.

Spiritual maturity is not knowing what to do with your whole life, but just knowing what to do next.

Modesty is the graceful, calm virtue of maturity; bashfulness the charm of vivacious youth.

India has known the innocence and insouciance of childhood, the passion and abandon of youth, and the ripe wisdom of maturity that comes from long experience of pain and pleasure; and over and over a gain she has renewed her childhood and youth and age

Civilization will reach maturity only when it learns to value diversity of character and of ideas.

By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.

To me, growing into spiritual maturity is becoming less self-conscious and more God-conscious.

How often I have found that we grow to maturity not by doing what we like, but by doing what we should. How true it is that not every 'should' is a compulsion, and not every 'like' is a high morality and true freedom.

You're not the center of the universe, you know.

Spiritual maturity is not reached by the passing of the years, but by obedience to the will of God.

Spaniards have always shown great maturity and great common sense when it comes to voting.

Maturity is when all of your mirrors turn into windows.

Women are in league with each other, a secret conspiracy of hearts and pheromones

Maturity… is the ability to do something even though your parents have recommended it.

The proof of spiritual maturity is not how pure you are but awareness of your impurity. That very awareness opens the door to grace.

...God will be 'all in all' (I Cor. 15:28) when we are no longer what we are now, a multiplicity of impulses and emotions, with little or nothing of God in us, but are fully like God , with room for God and God alone. This is the 'maturity' (cf. Col. 1:28) towards which we speed.

Your age doesn't define your maturity; your grades don't define your ability; and what people say about you doesn't define who you are.

Age is no guarantee of maturity.

Maturity is reached the day we don't need to be lied to about anything.

We have tried everything to get rid of suffering. We have gone everywhere to get rid of suffering. We have bought everything to get rid of it. We have ingested everything to get rid of it. Finally, when one has tried enought, there arises the possibility of spiritual maturity with the willingness to stop the futile attempt to get rid of it and, instead, to actually experience suffering. In that momentous instant, there is the realization of that which is beyond suffering, of that which is untouched by suffering. There is the realization of who one truly is.