Quotes by Maturity Spiritual maturity is not knowing what to do with your whole life, but just knowing what to do next. Henri Nouwen maturityknowingspiritual When a man reaches his maturity in understanding and in years, the feeling comes over him that his father was wrong to beget him. Friedrich Nietzsche maturitymenfather People say, "Age is just a number." A lot of times it's not just a number. It's actually a real and true sign of someone's maturity. But in this case, she's fantastic. Henry Cavill maturityrealnumbers Maturity is when all of your mirrors turn into windows. Henry David Thoreau maturitymirrorswindow I have learned over the years that the strength in a quorum doesn't come from the number of priesthood holders in it. Nor does it come automatically from the age and maturity of the members. Rather, the strength of a quorum comes in large measure from how completely its members are united in righteousness. That unity in a strong quorum of the priesthood is not like anything I have experienced in an athletic team or club or any other organization in the world. Henry B. Eyring maturityteamstrong Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others. Hermann Hesse maturitylive-for-othersdoe The Bible is the divine means of developing spiritual maturity. There is no other way. Howard G. Hendricks maturityspiritualmean It's essential to growth. It's essential to maturity. It's essential for equipping you, training you, so that you might be an available, clean, sharp instrument in His hands to accomplish His purposes. Howard G. Hendricks maturitygrowthhands Anything is possible in the life of a man if he lives long enough. Even maturity. Howell Raines maturitymenlong To recognize causes is to think, and through thought alone feelings become knowledge and are not lost, but become real and begin to mature. Hermann Hesse maturityrealthinking Bible study is essential to spiritual maturity. Howard G. Hendricks maturityessentialsspiritual Part of the maturity of the sciences is an appreciation of which questions are best left to other disciplinary approaches. Howard Gardner maturityapproachappreciation To grow mature is to separate more distinctly, to connect more closely. Hugo von Hofmannsthal separationmaturitymature What moralists describe as the mysteries of the human heart are solely the deceiving thoughts, the spontaneous impulses of self-regard. The sudden changes in character, about which so much has been said, are instinctive calculations for the furtherance of our own pleasures. Seeing himself now in his fine clothes, his new gloves and shoes, Eugène de Rastignac forgot his noble resolve. Youth, when it swerves toward wrong, dares not look in the mirror of conscience; maturity has already seen itself there. That is the whole difference between the two phases of life. Honore de Balzac maturityheartcharacter One element of maturity is the realization that we don't get away with anything. Any advantage gained or convenience taken, any private procrastination or insincerity, no matter how subtle or quick in passing, is paid for. Hugh Prather maturityprocrastinationtaken A woman should be an illusion Ian Fleming illusionwomenmaturity Maturity is having the courage to use one's own intelligence! Immanuel Kant maturitywisdomuse Every new experience brings its own maturity and a greater clarity of vision. Indira Gandhi maturitynew-experiencesvision Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another. Immanuel Kant divine-guidanceintelligencematurity The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one. J. D. Salinger growing-upmaturitymen«89101112131415161718»
