Quotes About Growth And Maturity

#1. The sea remains the greatest wilderness. To my mind, voyaging through wildernesses, be they full of woods or waves, is essential to the growth and maturity of the human spirit.

Steven Callahan

#2. 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

#3. Change is the mother of growth and maturity.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#4. To my mind, voyaging through wildernesses, be they full of woods or waves, is essential to the growth and maturity of the human spirit. It is in the wilderness that you really learn who you are.

Steven Callahan

#5. Your children will stop paying attention to you when they have reached your age of emotional maturity. If your child is starting to tune you out, you need to go through a growth spurt of emotional and spiritual maturity. You can never chase a child to a higher awareness; you can only lead them.

Rand Olson

#6. Age 50 is the mile marker where any mildly perceptive person becomes acutely aware that he or she alone is accountable for the content and coherence of their character.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#7. Genuine love for a child, it seems to me, must include a desire for his maturity and ultimately his independence. WAtching a personality unfold is perhaps the deepest pleasure of parenthood; wishing, or trying, to retard this growth is one of the deepest sins.

Sydney J. Harris

#8. The author likens crisis, and particularly war, to stop motion photography in its capacity to make changes plain that are ordinarily too gradual to be seen.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#9. Running away, avoiding life's battles or giving up robs you of the opportunity to grow and be stronger.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#10. The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.

Wendell Berry

#11. Maturity means the ability to see what is important and what is not.

Vatsal Surti

#12. To fully understand how utterly amazing we really are we must first understand all of the things about us that are not, and then we must make our habitation where they are not.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#13. A profession that completely matches your talent, aspirations and skills is the best profession you can choose.

Eraldo Banovac

#14. Change takes time. It takes time for the seeds to begin growing within, time to understand and process, time for the growth to mature, and time for the old self to die and fall away.

Bryant McGill

#15. There are many forms of love as there is moments in time, and you are capable of feeling them all at different stages of your life.

Shannon L. Alder

#16. Except. What is normal at any given time? We change just as the seasons change, and each spring brings new growth. So nothing is ever quite the same.

Sherwood Smith

#17. 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

#18. Every other science presupposes intelligence as already existing and complete: the philosopher contemplates it in its growth, and as it were represents its history to the mind from its birth to its maturity.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#19. I will come back to you, I swear I will;
And you will know me still.
I shall be only a little taller
Than when I went.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

#20. It is always easier to take the words of a Jesus, a Gandhi, a Marx, or a Confucius as constituting Holy Writ. This involves less reading, less study, less thought, less conflict, and less independent searching, but it also means less growth toward maturity.

William Coperthwaite

#21. Once established, an original river advances through its long life, manifesting certain peculiarities of youth, maturity and old age, by which its successive stages of growth may be recognized without much difficulty.

William Morris Davis

#22. It is necessary to grow up in maturity, firmness and courage in order to reach the goal

Sunday Adelaja

#23. Maturity is about how you live your life. It is possible to be theologically astute and be very immature. It is possible to be biblically literate and be in need of significant spiritual growth.

Paul David Tripp

#24. My biggest achievement - besides being drafted into the NBA - was becoming a father. Being a father has made me experience things that have contributed to my maturity and personal growth.

Dwyane Wade

#25. It takes courage and maturity to realise your own story.

Horst Kornberger

#26. It is extraordinary how little the New Testament says about God's interest in our success, by comparison with the enormous amount that it says about God's interest in our holiness, our maturity in Christ, and our growth into the fullness of His image.

J.I. Packer

#27. We must not confuse conformity to religious expectation and culture to an actual growth in intimacy with our Lord and maturity of our faith.

Alisa Hope Wagner

#28. A true work of art is shaped by the hands of another, and if in shaping us that 'other' is anything other than God, the piece will never touch the remotest periphery of its potential.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#29. Maturity involves two elements: 1) immediate obedience in specific situations and 2) long-range character growth.

Larry Crabb

#30. Everyone grows but not everyone becomes mature.

Kemi Sogunle