Top 65 Quotes About Spiritual Maturity
#1. Spiritual maturity is measured in terms of persevering faith, not perfect behavior
Andy Stanley
#2. Spiritual maturity is marked by being comfortable with the unpredictability of God.
Erwin W. Lutzer
#3. Aloneness is a wise teacher. Kierkegaard remarked that one sign of spiritual maturity was the ability to be comfortable when alone.
Vernon Howard
#4. To me, growing into spiritual maturity is becoming less self-conscious and more God-conscious.
Mark Batterson
#5. There are no shortcuts to spiritual maturity. It takes time to be holy.
Erwin W. Lutzer
#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. 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
#8. The proof of spiritual maturity, Tolstoy contended, is not how "pure" you are but awareness of your impurity. That very awareness opens the door to grace.
Philip Yancey
#9. The Bible is the divine means of developing spiritual maturity. There is no other way.
Howard G. Hendricks
#10. Spiritual maturity is not measured by the years that you have spent in church, rather by your attitude before people different from you.
Paul Gitwaza
#11. In spiritual maturity, the opposite of injustice is not justice but compassion.
Joko Beck
#12. Spiritual maturity does not mean that we will never make wrong plans. In fact, spiritual maturity often means having the courage to admit we've made the wrong plans.
Beth Moore
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. The goal of a child's life is maturity - and the goal of a Christian's life is spiritual maturity.
Billy Graham
#16. There is within you a lamb and a lion. Spiritual maturity is the ability to let lamb and lion lie down together.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#17. Spiritual maturity is not knowing what to do with your whole life, but just knowing what to do next.
Henri Nouwen
#18. Spiritual maturity keeps you from being easily swayed in your beliefs
Jim George
#19. Individuation is an attainment of spiritual maturity frighteningly seldom attained in today's mono-cultures.
Bryant McGill
#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. Spiritual maturity is not defined by how well one applies Biblical principles to "suppress sin".
John Paul Warren
#23. In our process of spiritual maturity, our faith needs to attain bigger dimensions
Sunday Adelaja
#24. Spiritual maturity testifies of one's level of patience
Sunday Adelaja
#25. Through spiritual maturity you will see new ways to avoid unnecessary suffering; wiser ways to endure unavoidable hardships with grace, and opportunities to turn your pain into lessons of service and healing for others.
Bryant McGill
#26. emotional health and spiritual maturity are inseparable. It is not possible to be spiritually mature while remaining emotionally immature.
Peter Scazzero
#27. 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
#28. Spiritual maturity is becoming like Jesus in the way we think, feel, and act. The more you develop Christlike character, the more you will bring glory to God. The Bible says, "As the Spirit of the Lord works within us, we become more and more like him and reflect his glory even more."16
Rick Warren
#29. Joanna's quietly intent nature contrasted sharply with Holly's vibrancy. While Miss Brewster's flirtation stroked his ego, the spiritual maturity Miss Robbin's exhibited commanded his admiration and respect.
Karen Witemeyer
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. One of the truest tests of spiritual maturity is seeing the miraculous in the monotonous.
Mark Batterson
#33. Physical maturity is bound to time. Spiritual maturity is bound to obedience.
John Bevere
#34. Jesus taught that spiritual maturity is never an end in itself. Maturity is for ministry! We grow up in order to give out. It is not enough to keep learning more and more. We must act on what we know and practice what we claim to believe.
Rick Warren
#35. Heroism does not require spiritual maturity.
Abel Hermant
#36. 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
#38. Because we are more adult than actually mature, we tend to take our sins and baptize them, dressing them up as spiritual maturity.
R.C. Sproul Jr.
#39. Faithfully caring for the poor and needy is a reflection of spiritual maturity.
Dean M. Davies
#40. Do you want to know what God's will is for you? It is for you to become more and more like Christ. This is spiritual maturity, and if you make this your goal, it will change your life.
Billy Graham
#41. The ability to rejoice in any situation is a sign of spiritual maturity.
Billy Graham
#42. Joy is a characteristic of spiritual maturity and of surrender.
Joshua Stannard
#43. 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
#45. Evolving is not arrogance. It is confidence that won't be pulled backwards, by those that feel left behind.
Shannon L. Alder
#46. Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it's not like you're going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.
Jack Kornfield
#47. 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
#48. 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
#49. If you cultivate your body, your mind, your emotions, and your energies to a certain level of maturity, meditation will blossom.
Jaggi Vasudev
#50. Real success is gaining the ability to face situations in life with maturity.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#51. We become increasingly aware that the human dream, the human drama, with all its questionable, damaging, and often malevolent intention is not real life at all.
Donna Goddard
#52. Journeys at youth are part of the education; but at maturity, are part of the experience.
Francis Bacon
#53. If you walk through life with ease and without any sense of entanglement, that is maturity.
Jaggi Vasudev
#54. ...God doesn't wait for you to reach maturity before he starts liking you. He loves and enjoys you at every stage of your spiritual development.
Rick Warren
#55. For students who have not been required to confess that it is easier to learn theology then live it, it is tempting to think maturity is more a matter of knowing in a matter of living
Paul David Tripp
#56. 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
#57. 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
#58. When you mature in your relationship with God you realize how suffering and patience are like eating your spiritual vegetables.
Criss Jami
#59. I heard Your voice from on high. I am the food of the fully grown. Grow and you will feed on me. And you will not change Me into you, like the food of flesh eats. But you will be changed into Me.
Augustine Of Hippo
#60. One of these days you who are now a 'babe' in Christ shall be a 'father' in the church. Hope for this great thing; but hope for it as a gift of grace, and not as the wages of work, or as the product of your own energy.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#61. Conversion is in its essence a normal adolescent phenomenon, incidental to the passage from the child's small universe to the wider intellectual and spiritual life of maturity.
William James
#62. It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.
Warren G. Bennis
#63. The church is a storehouse of spiritual food whereby the inner man is fed, nourished, and developed into maturity. If it fails, it is not fulfilling its purpose as a church.
Billy Graham
#64. Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.
Samuel Ullman
#65. (Bonhoeffer's) change was not an ungainly, embarrassing leap from which he would have to retreat slightly when he gained more maturity and perspective. It was by all accounts a deepening consistent with what had gone before.
Eric Metaxas
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