Mature Christian Quotes

#1. You'll never be a mature Christian until you understand that God remembers his promises and forgets your sins.

Kevin DeYoung

#2. If you feel that you can follow a few little rules or some clever gimmicks to make you a mature Christian, then you have fallen into a subtle trap of legalism.

J. Vernon McGee

#3. Nothing is more important for mature Christian discipleship than a fresh, clear, true vision of the authentic Jesus.

John R.W. Stott

#4. A mature Christian is a humble Christian

Dan Schilling

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

Jim George

#6. God also gave Theologians, Biblical scholars, and Christian authors to mature the Saints and to promote the cause of Christ and God's Kingdom".

~R. Alan Woods [2012]

R. Alan Woods

#7. By the irresistible maturing of the general mind, the Christian traditions have lost their hold.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#8. If you want to be a strong, maturing Christian, your first priority is to develop a closer relationship with God.

Jim George

#9. Christians who neglect the Bible simply do not mature.

John Stott

#10. Christian spirituality means living in the mature wholeness of the gospel. It means taking all the elements of your life - children, spouse, job, weather, possessions, relationships - and experiencing them as an act of faith. God wants all the material of our lives.

Eugene H. Peterson

#11. Rose, come here. Christian grabbed my hand and guided me back down on the couch next to him.

Tish Thawer

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

Elizabeth George

#13. 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

#14. I am an archaeologist of mature vintage. Rapid descents are not my specialty. I am the plodding type."
~ Grace Madison, PhD.

N.L.B. Horton

#15. The reality of the ordinary progress of Christian understanding should not escape our notice: early believers "know no answers"; immature believers "know all the answers"; and mature believers "know the limits of our answers.

Bryan Chapell

#16. I love you Rose, I love you with everything that I am, which may not be much, but it's all yours.

Tish Thawer

#17. God's Word is the living seed that brings new birth. It is the milk that nurtures the new life of a young Christian and the meat that builds the muscle of a mature believer.

Colin S. Smith

#18. I have since learned that the most mature believer is the one who is bent over, leaning most heavily on the Lord, and admitting his total inability to do anything without Christ. The greatest Christian is not the one who has achieved the most but rather the one who has received the most.

Jim Cymbala

#19. It takes courage to speak up for your beliefs.

Jim George