Spiritual Maturity Quotes - Page 2

• One of the truest tests of spiritual maturity is seeing the miraculous in the monotonous.

  Mark Batterson

  Spiritual, Maturity, Tests

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• The clergy profession is fundamentally self-defeating. Its stated purpose is to nurture spiritual maturity in the church - a valuable goal. In actuality, however; it accomplishes the opposite by nurturing a permanent dependence of the laity on the clergy. Clergy become to their congregations like parents whose children never grow up, like therapists whose clients never become healed, like teachers whose students never graduate.

  Christian Smith

  Spiritual, Teacher, Children

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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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• In spiritual maturity, the opposite of injustice is not justice but compassion.

  Joko Beck

  Spiritual, Compassion, Maturity

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• Bible study is essential to spiritual maturity.

  Howard G. Hendricks

  Spiritual, Maturity, Essentials

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• Spiritual maturity is measured not by the sophistication of a person's opinions, but by their genuineness and the courage necessary to express and maintain them.

  Caroline Myss

  Spiritual, Maturity, Opinion

  Caroline Myss (2013). “Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing”, p.188, Harmony

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• Faithfully caring for the poor and needy is a reflection of spiritual maturity.

  Dean M. Davies

  Spiritual, Caring, Maturity

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• The thoughtful believer recalls God's faithfulness in the past when confronted by any new threat. Part of spiritual maturity is strong sense of one's own history.

  Max Anders

  Spiritual, Strong, Maturity

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• 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.

  Gangaji

  Uplifting, Spiritual, Maturity

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• Aloneness is a wise teacher. Kierkegaard remarked that one sign of spiritual maturity was the ability to be comfortable when alone.

  Vernon Howard

  Wise, Spiritual, Teacher

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• The arts are not simply skills: their concern is the intellectual, ethical, and spiritual maturity of human life. And in a time when religious and political institutions are so busy engraving images of marketable gods and candidates that they lose their vision of human dignity, the arts have become the custodians of those values which most worthily difine humanity, which most sensitively define Divinity.

  Robert Shaw

  Spiritual, Religious, Art

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• Our focus reflects our love and admiration for you. . . . We want you to live lives of spiritual maturity and fulfillment, free of unrealistic comparisons.

  Elaine L. Jack

  Life, Spiritual, Maturity

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• Heroism does not require spiritual maturity.

  Abel Hermant

  Spiritual, Maturity, Heroism

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