“Cynicism is no more mature than naïveté. You're no more mature, just more burned.”
“Spiritual maturity is not reached by the passing of the years, but by obedience to the will of God. Some people mature into an understanding of God’s will more quickly than others because they obey more readily; they more readily sacrifice the life of nature to the will of God.”
“I’m older today than yesterday, and therefore I must be more mature.”
“Because we are more adult than actually mature, we tend to take our sins and baptize them, dressing them up as spiritual maturity.”
“If you ever start thinking that any of them are developmentally more mature than a high school boy, just remember they named their dogs after beer.”
“By high school, some girls may be mature enough to be sexually active, but my experience is that the more mature and healthy girls avoid sex.”