Maturity in the Christian life is measured by only one test: how much closer to his character have we become?
I'm very clear about what I want to say. I have a great team and it's going well. I have a feeling of maturity.
Scars fade with time. And the ones that never go away, well, they build character, maturity, caution.
Venting every feeling isn't mature. Learning to deal with uncomfortable and unpleasant feelings is an important aspect of maturity.
Aloneness is a wise teacher. Kierkegaard remarked that one sign of spiritual maturity was the ability to be comfortable when alone.
Maturity is about Challenging yourself and Improving!
And then taking that experience to help others.
To bear defeat with dignity, to accept criticism with poise, to receive honors with humility - these are marks of maturity and graciousness.
Maturity brings - among other things - the ability to sustain and survive enormous contradictions and disappointments.
Emotional maturity is the ability to stick to a job and to struggle through until it is finished, to endure unpleasantness, discomfort and frustration.
Eden Robinson is one of those rare artists who comes to writing with a skill and maturity that has taken the rest of us decades to achieve.
When I was very young and the urge to be someplace was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch.
On the neck of the young man sparkles no gem so gracious as enterprise. Youth condemns; maturity condones.
The loss of religious faith among the most civilized portion of the race is a step from childishness toward maturity.
True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends' boyfriend - and he accepts it
Traumatic events always happen exactly two years before I reach the maturity level to deal with them.
I'd date someone younger or older age doesn't matter to me. Or looks, really - it's all about maturity.
The finest flowers of genius have grown in an atmosphere where those of Nature are prone to droop, and difficult to bring to maturity.
You must have a certain amount of maturity to be a poet. Seldom do sixteen-year-olds know themselves well enough.
True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends' boyfriends - and he accepts it.
The problem with some of our noisier exponents of 'American exceptionalism' is that they lack Reagan's moral maturity.
I believe Twitter, right now, is just finishing the venture capital phase, getting into a maturity level.
Gardening is seen as a pastime that is almost like belonging to the Church of England - a sign of maturity and wisdom and right thinking.
We've been branded 'the thinking man's hip-hop.' So the music's got to have some level of maturity.
Fine #? wine is a living liquid ... Its life comprises youth, maturity, old age, and death.
Part of the maturity of the sciences is an appreciation of which questions are best left to other disciplinary approaches.
The true depth of understanding and maturity as a practitioner is how we apply what we've learned to our lives.
I think America has more than enough maturity and intelligence to start exercising its world leadership responsibly.
In the journey of the year, the autumn is Venice, spring is Naples, certainly, and the majestic maturity of summer is Rome.
A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.
I never really had a teenage experience. I went from childhood to maturity, and in some ways, it short-circuited me emotionally.
Maturity: knowing where you're crazy, trying to warn others of the fact and striving to keep yourself under control.
The marvelous maturity of London! I would rather be dead in this town than preening my feathers in heaven.
Every kind of science, if it has only reached a certain degree of maturity, automatically becomes a part of mathematics.
I believe my signal of maturity as a filmmaker iswhen I'll actually acknowledge the fact that the first take is usuallythe best.
I guess real maturity, which most of us never achieve, is when you realize that you're not the center of the universe.
Kids don't shuffle along in unison on the road to maturity. They slouch toward adulthood at an uneven, highly individual pace.
Remember, attraction is only one part of a relationship. Loyalty, commitment, responsibility and maturity make up the rest.
The true mark of maturity is when someone hurts you and you try and understand their situation instead of hurting them back.
A true initiate will never force anyone who has not reached a certain level of maturity to accept his truth.
Maturity transformation is a central part of the economic function of banks and many other types of financial intermediaries.
Maturity, as I conceived it, was recognizing what was bad or peculiar in life, admitting it has to stay that way, and going ahead with the best of things.
A close look at many churches will reveal that a central problem is the lack of biblical maturity among the men.
art is exposure. And until you've developed a degree of maturity to handle that knowledge, you are revealing what other people keep hidden.
There's a shift and a change in how we've matured to becoming adults. 'Elevator Girl' represents our maturity.
It is in the prime of youth that man sinks into empty phrases and grimaces. It's in this smithy that our maturity is forged.
The Interros strategy toward various assets generally depends on the stage of their development and level of their maturity.
Maturity involves two elements: 1) immediate obedience in specific situations and 2) long-range character growth.
Even as a kid, classmates asked pointed personal questions about my family. I have conditioned myself to handle it with maturity.
One of the blessings of maturity is that it sometimes brings one greater courage to be truthful, regardless of what those who do not understand may think or say
Maturity is the ability to sort the portions of truth from the accepted lies and self-deceptions that you have grown up with.
But if we are truly happy inside, then age brings with it a maturity, a depth, and a power that only magnifies our radiance.
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.
If you practice yoga every day with perseverance, you will be able to face the turmoil of life with steadiness and maturity.
Ease and luxury, such as our affluence brings today, do not make for maturity; hardship and struggle however do.
Oftentimes, those special brains, the ones that are capable of focusing more intently than others, do so at the expense of emotional maturity
The end of the year! I draw the balance. Inquiry of conscience and request to the Spirit for progress and maturity.
Even without tactical discipline, what is important for a team is having players with maturity and a sense of responsibility.
So this is where the years of maturity deliver us - to this needy, selfish, unwieldy wish to be somebody else's first and primal other.
I'd date someone younger or older; age doesn't matter to me. Or looks, really - it's all about maturity.
There was that word again.Mature. Was this what maturity was? Giving up on the things we wanted because we knew we'd never get them?
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