Maturity Quotes - Page 21

• Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.

  Anais Nin

  Family, Compassion, Parent

  "The Diary Of Anais Nin, Vol. 5 (1947-1955)". Book by Anais Nin, 1975.

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• A close look at many churches will reveal that a central problem is the lack of biblical maturity among the men.

  Albert Mohler

  Biblical, Men, Church

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• The other day the President said, I know you've had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused, then said, would you like a puppy?

  Dan Quayle

  Responsibility, Stupidity, President

  Los Angeles Times, May 16, 1989.

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• As long as a believer is worrying about whether or not they are truly saved, they will never grow up in spiritual maturity. It basically guarantees that a Christian will remain stuck in spiritual infancy. And worse, it paints a picture of God that is not only untrue but also unbiblical. It cheapens the gift of salvation – the gift of grace – and make God look like a finicky human.

  Will Davis

  Christian, Spiritual, Growing Up

  Will Davis (2011). “10 Things Jesus Never Said: And Why You Should Stop Believing Them”, p.150, Revell

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• That's the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.

  Philip Pullman

  Anxiety, Young, Anxious

  Philip Pullman (1995). “Northern lights”

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• Fine #‎ wine is a living liquid ... Its life comprises youth, maturity, old age, and death.

  Julia Child

  Wine, Age, Liquid

  Julia Child, Louisette Bertholle, Simone Beck (2011). “Mastering the Art of French Cooking”, p.91, Knopf

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

  J. I. Packer

  Creativity, Resilience, Compounds

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• Spiritual maturity is a lifelong pursuit. We grow in spiritual maturity moment by moment, day by day, year by year.

  Jim George

  Spiritual, Years, Moments

  Jim George (2008). “A Man After God's Own Heart: Devoting Your Life to What Really Matters”, p.38, Harvest House Publishers

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• 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.

  David A. Bednar

  Spiritual, Inexperience, Weakness

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• 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

  Spiritual, Sacrifice, Years

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “Bringing Sons Unto Glory: Studies in the Life of Our Lord”, p.18, Discovery House

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• I was born 10 years old.

  Drew Barrymore

  Years, Born

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• It's not until recently that I could even imagine myself as an adult. But these kids today, they look at me like I'm Neil Young. Nirvana is the band their parents listen to.

  Dave Grohl

  Kids, Parent, Adults

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• “How does one grow up?” I asked a friend the other day. There was a slight pause; then she answered, “By thinking.”

  May Sarton

  Growing Up, Thinking, Doe

  "Journal of a Solitude".

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• Growing up is not being so dead-set on making everybody happy.

  Reba McEntire

  Being Happy, Growing Up, Growing

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• Man is more courageous, pugnacious, and energetic than woman, and has a more inventive genius. His brain is absolutely larger, but whether relatively to the larger size of his body, in comparison with that of woman, has not, I believe been fully ascertained. In woman the face is rounder; the jaws and the base of the skull smaller; the outlines of her body rounder, in parts more prominent; and her pelvis is broader than in man; but this latter character may perhaps be considered rather as a primary than a secondary sexual character. She comes to maturity at an earlier age than man.

  Charles Darwin

  Women, Believe, Character

  "The Descent of Man". Book by Charles Darwin, volume II, chapter XIX: "Secondary Sexual Characters of Man", pages 316-317, 1871.

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• I'm not ready to own a place yet. I have the money, but I don't have the maturity.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Ready, Not Ready

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• When people hear my daughter and when they know about her wisdom and maturity, they think that her father must have been sitting with her and mentoring her. They think he would have spent a lot of time in bringing her up. They think he would have constructed her.

  Ziauddin Yousafzai

  Mother, Daughter, Father

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• Most of us don't mind doing what we ought to do when it doesn't interfere with what we want to do, but it takes discipline and maturity to do what we ought to do whether we want to or not.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Discipline, Mind, Want

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• By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

  Marie Dressler

  Birthday, Turning 50, Important

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Man matures through work which inspires him to difficult good.

  Pope John Paul II

  Work, Men, Inspire

  Pope John Paul II, Jerzy Peterkiewicz (1982). “Collected poems”, Random House Inc

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• Perfection is always found in maturity, whether it be in the animal or in the intellectual world. Reflection is the mother of wisdom, and wisdom the parent of success.

  James F. Cooper

  Mother, Animal, Reflection

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• Be the change you seek.

  Mahatma Gandhi

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• At the beginning of their careers many writers have a need to overwrite. They choose carefully turned-out phrases; they want to impress their readers with their large vocabularies. By the excesses of their language, these young men and women try to hide their sense of inexperience. With maturity the writer becomes more secure in his ideas. He finds his real tone and develops a simple and effective style.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Real, Writing, Simple

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• Enjoy the blessing of strength while you have it and do not bewail it when it is gone, unless, forsooth, you believe that youth must lament the loss of infancy, or early manhood the passing of youth. Life's race-course is fixed; Nature has only a single path and that path is run but once, and to each stage of existence has been allotted its own appropriate quality; so that the weakness of childhood, the impetuosity of youth, the seriousness of middle life, the maturity of old age.. each bears some of Nature's fruit, which must be garnered in its own season.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Strength, Running, Business

  Marcus Tullius Cicero, Clinton Walker Keyes (1992). “Cicero in Twenty-eight Volumes: Cato Maior de Senectute. Laelius de Amicitia. De Divinatione”

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• We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.

  Midge Decter

  Strong, Growing Up, Safe Keeping

  Midge Decter (1975). “Liberal parents, radical children”, Coward McCann

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