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Trials come to prove and improve us. -
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I often found myself preferring the company of people outside my congregation, men and women who did not follow Jesus. Or worse, preferring the company of my sovereign self. But soon I found that my p... -
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I long to put the experience of fifty years at once into your young lives, to give you at once the key to that treasure chamber every gem of which has cost me tears and struggles and prayers, but you ... -
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Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, t... -
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Maturity comes from obedience, not necessarily from age. -
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Good people will mirror goodness in us, which is why we love them so much, Not so mature people will mirror their own unlived and confused life unto us, which is why they confuse and confound us so mu... -
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My Lord Jesus can hew heaven out of worse timber than I am. -
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I believe in Christ and confess him not like some child; my hosanna has passed through an enormous furnace of doubt. -
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[Maturity is] the ability to delay gratification. Delaying gratification is a process of scheduling the pain and pleasure of life in such a way as to enhance the pleasure by meeting and experiencing t... -
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I am mended by my sickness, enriched by my poverty and strengthened by my weakness…. What fools are we, then, to frown upon our afflictions! These, how crabbed soever, are our best friends. They are n... -
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Spiritual maturity is measured in terms of persevering faith, not perfect behavior. -
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The clergy profession is fundamentally self-defeating. Its stated purpose is to nurture spiritual maturity in the church - a valuable goal. In actuality, however; it accomplishes the opposite by nurtu... -
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Maturity starts with the willingness to give oneself. -
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Maturity is the capacity to endure uncertainty. -
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Christians who neglect the Bible simply do not mature. -
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Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values. -
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Immaturity talks when it should listen, and is silent when it should speak. -
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Most people don’t grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging. -
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The deeper our faith, the more doubt we must endure; the deeper our hope, the more prone we are to despair; the deeper our love, the more pain its loss will bring: these are a few of the paradoxes we ... -
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The desperate need today is not for a greater number of intelligent people, or gifted people, but for deep people. -
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Maturity is the ability to joyfully live in an imperfect world. -
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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. -
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Suffering makes immature love grow into mature loves. Immature unearned love is egotistic. It’s the kind of love children have, demanding and wanting-and wanting instantaneously. -
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I have a lot of growing up to do. I realized that the other day inside my fort.
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