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"Longing for the ideal while criticizing the real is evidence of immaturity. On the other hand, settling for the real without striving for the ideal is complacency. Maturity is living with the tension."
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"It is a sign of intellectual maturity to always crawl to conclusions."
"One longs and longs to be grown up, doesn't one?,' she said, 'I dreamed of being eighteen and having a Season and meeting handsome gentlemen even apart from Dominic and falling in love with them and marrying him and living happily ever after. But life is not nearly as that simple when one finally does grow up."
"Sorrow and strife comes to all persons. Mature people expect hardships and setbacks and patiently and determinedly work to accomplish their goals. Immature people lash out in anger and frustration when circumstances conspire to blunt their short-term objectives."
"When I was a child, I thought as a child. But now I have put away childish things."
"Deeds need time, even after they are done, in order to be seen or heard."
"God entrusts His riches to mature sons and not to spiritual babies."
"He was not ill-fitted to be the head and representative of a community which owed its origin and progress, and its present state of development, not to the impulses of youth, but to the stern and tempered energies of manhood and the sombre sagacity of age; accomplishing so much, precisely because it imagined and hoped so little."
"Raging over something that is invaluable can portray an individual's sense of immaturity and lack of understanding about his or her actual needs for survival."
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"Because God is love the most important lesson He wants you to learn on earth is how to love."
"Many of your relationship problems are not really relationship problems. They're personal problems that spill over into relationships."
"Every time you try to block a thought out of your mind, you drive it deeper into your memory. By resisting it, you actually reinforce it."
"Forgiveness must be immediate, whether or not a person asks for it. Trust must be rebuilt over time. Trust requires a track record."
"During the next 90 days, people are going to be more open to the Gospel than in years. It is God's responsibility to make people receptive; it is our responsibility to sow the seed."
"Remember how far you've come, not just how far you have to go. You are not where you want to be, but neither are you where you used to be."
"The best use of life is love. The best expression of love is time. The best time to love is now."
"The Bible tells us that Jesus Christ came to do three things. He came to have my past forgiven, you get a purpose for living and a home in Heaven."
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