Christian Maturity Quotes

#1. While this may simply be another way of saying that spirituality is Christian maturity, it tries to delineate more openly the factors of Spirit-control over a period of time.

Charles C. Ryrie

#2. That word maturity seems to hold the key to the concept of spirituality, for Christian maturity is the growth which the Holy Spirit produces over a period of time in the believer.

Charles C. Ryrie

#3. Faith is the most unexercised muscle known to man.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#4. We lied to ourselves thinking in our minds we knew everything. We were deceived in believing that youthful enthusiasm could replace wizened maturity.

Anna M. Aquino

#5. John," I said, "when you get older, you're going to understand a lot of things you don't understand now." "You must mean nuclear physics," he said. "I can hardly wait.

Kurt Vonnegut

#6. 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.

Mark Dever

#7. Sittin' here resting my bones, this loneliness won't leave me alone. Two thousand miles I roam, just to make this dock my home. I'm just gon' sit at the dock of the bay, watching the tide roll away. Sittin' on the dock of the bay, wastin' time.

Otis Redding

#8. God ... doesn't intend to help us live the Christian life. Immaturity considers the Lord Jesus a Helper. Maturity knows Him to be life itself.

Miles J. Stanford

#9. Maturity in the Christian life is measured by only one test: how much closer to his character have we become?

Elyse Fitzpatrick

#10. In this way, the Gospel of Mary holds up Mary as a model for Christian leadership based on spiritual maturity and prophetic insight. It is because she has achieved spiritual maturity that she is able to teach and care for the others.

R.S. Sugirtharajah

#11. It is as if joy were the default setting of human emotion, not the furtive, fugitive glimpses it becomes in lives compromised by necessity, familiarity, "maturity," suffering.

Christian Wiman

#12. Biblical convictions are essential for spiritual growth and maturity. What is ironic today is that people often have strong convictions about weak issues (football, fashion, etc.) while having weak convictions about major issues (what is right and what is wrong).

Rick Warren

#13. And in my own pastoral and personal Christian experience, I can say that I've never known a man or woman who came to spiritual maturity except through discipline. Godliness comes through discipline.

Donald S. Whitney

#14. The goal of a child's life is maturity - and the goal of a Christian's life is spiritual maturity.

Billy Graham

#15. None of us can come to the highest maturity without enduring the summer heat of trials.

Charles Spurgeon

#16. HONESTLY ... I believe people are intimidated with truthful/ outspoken people.
HONESTY ... will help you grow and it shows maturity.
HONEST ... people will push you closer towards your destiny.

Takina Cupp

#17. There's always going to be a ball up in the air, and what I try to do is make sure that ball is never the kids. If that means sacrificing a social event or having fewer work commitments, it's worth it.

Elisabeth Hasselbeck

#18. Spiritual maturity keeps you from being easily swayed in your beliefs

Jim George

#19. There is a certain kind of maturity that can be attained only through the discipline of suffering.

D. A. Carson

#20. Those who look down on other Christians because they lack a particular gift or experience, or those who despise a particular gift and look down on Christians who have it, are not demonstrating spiritual maturity.

Craig S. Keener

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

Jim George

#22. The church is the gathering of God's children, where they can be helped and fed like babies and then guided by her motherly care, grow up to manhood in maturity of faith.

John Calvin

#23. The world was a soup and thought was generally a fork: it seldom resulted in a good meal.

Harry Mulisch

#24. To plant and maintain a flower border, with a good scheme for colour, is by no means the easy thing that is commonly supposed.

Gertrude Jekyll

#25. As a person, I'm polite - I want to please.

Karl Ove Knausgaard

#26. That's the thing with 'Lost': you can put a spin on so many things.

Henry Ian Cusick

#27. Our whole philosophy is one of transparency.

Valerie Jarrett

#28. I leaned closer to look at it, at all those empty squares that represented the days of summer ahead.

Morgan Matson

#29. Christian education begins where evangelism ends, helping believers grow in their faith.

Perry G. Downs

#30. The best lesson I was given is that all of life teaches, especially if we have that expectation.

Sam Abell

#31. Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#32. She pressed the controls to lower the ramp. "All right, Syn. One cubbyhole coming up. Just remember you have to bear my choice with the same grace and even-tempered temerity I've shown with yours." He snorted. "Good. I get to whine and bitch. Can't wait."
-Shahara & Syn

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#33. In some Christian ministry, we assess how mature a believer is based on how much he knows. But the New Testament assesses the maturity of a believer based on how much he obeys (e.g. John 14:15; James 1:22-25)

Steve Smith

#34. It takes a lot of grace and maturity to simply forgive, but a lot of healing takes place when you do.

Elizabeth George

#35. ... What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is - terror.

Thomas Mann

#36. The Christian views trials as a pathway to maturity.

Matt Chandler

#37. 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.

Gregory Of Nazianzus

#38. It's funny about a face, how big a difference it makes. I mean, one day you look in th mirror and you think, yeah, that's me, that's my face. And then another day ... you think, that's not me, that's not my face. So am I my face? I mean is that all I am?

John Marsden

#39. 'Skeleton Creek' is like nothing you've ever read before because it's a book and a movie at the same time.

Patrick Carman

#40. When any fat is heated to frying temperatures, toxic volatile chemicals that can cause genetic mutations are released into the air.

Michael Greger

#41. Our humbling experience of sin is a mark of maturity. To be humbled by sin is to be marked by grace. Christian holiness is not the eradication of the sin nature, at least not on this side of eternity.

Tony Reinke