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Our business in the world is not to succeed to but to continue to fail in good spirits. -
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To me, growing into spiritual maturity is becoming less self-conscious and more God-conscious. -
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One of the truest tests of spiritual maturity is seeing the miraculous in the monotonous. -
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Spiritual maturity is not reached by the passing of the years, but by obedience to the will of God. -
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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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To novices it is a beginning; to those who are advancing, an increase; to those who are concluding, a confirmation. -
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Without transformation, you can assume you're at a high moral, spiritual level just because you call yourself Lutheran or Methodist or Catholic. I think my great disappointment as a priest has bee... -
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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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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. -
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When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him. When a man is getting worse he understands his own badness less and less. -
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Christian maturity is not indicated by the infrequency of temptation but by the infrequency of succumbing to temptation. -
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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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There is nothing that more tends to strengthen the faith of the young believer than to hear the veteran Christian, covered with scars from the battle, testifying that the service of his Master is a ha... -
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The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them. -
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My Lord Jesus can hew heaven out of worse timber than I am. -
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It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just... -
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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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The key to maturity is time and community. Discernment and godly wisdom develop in a community that spans generations. The church is called to be this place where the [God's] Spirit uses normal pa... -
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Spiritual maturity is not knowing what to do with your whole life, but just knowing what to do next. -
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According to Father Thomas Keating—a Cistercian monk—at the time of conversion we orient our lives by the question, “What can I do for God?” Seems appropriate, right? But when we begin the spiritual j... -
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The proof of spiritual maturity is not how pure you are but awareness of your impurity. That very awareness opens the door to grace. -
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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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