Moral Maturity Quotes

Right and wrong becomes more difficult for each of us as we grow older, because the older we get the more we know personally about our own human frailties.

It is hard living down the tempers we are born with. We all begin well, for in our youth there is nothing we are more intolerant of than our own sins writ large in others and we fight them fiercely in ourselves; but we grow old and we see that these our sins are of all sins the really harmless ones to own, nay that they give a charm to any character, and so our struggle with them dies away.

Brethren, do not become children in sense: but in malice be children, and in sense be perfect.

Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.

Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

I've arrived at the age where a platonic friendship can be sustained on the highest moral plane.

When a juvenile offender commits a heinous crime, the State can exact forfeiture of some of the most basic liberties, but the State cannot extinguish his life and his potential to attain a mature understanding of his own humanity.

Old age hath stronger sense of right than youth.

The problem with some of our noisier exponents of 'American exceptionalism' is that they lack Reagan's moral maturity.

If we accept that we have at least an iota of free will, we cannot throw it back the moment things go wrong. Like a human parent, God will help us when we ask for help, but in a way that will make us more mature, more real, not in a way that will diminish us.

The goal of the pastor is not to get people to show up but to get people to grow up.

Let's be honest - look what Hollywood at 18 is.

Living well eliminates the need for revenge.

It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution.

Someone who is perennially surprised that depravity exists, who continues to feel disillusioned (even incredulous) when confronted with evidence of what humans are capable of inflicting in the way of gruesome, hands-on cruelties upon other humans, has not reached moral or psychological adulthood.

For every step in spiritual perception, three steps are to be taken in moral development.

No man has ever risen to the stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.

I sound like Jesse Jackson or Martin Luther King, but I honestly feel like the world is mature enough. And, for me, I just want to do good roles.

Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.

There is a canyon of difference between doing your best to glorify God and doing whatever it takes to glorify yourself. The quest for excellence is a mark of maturity. The quest for power is childish.

God's ultimate goal for your life on earth is not comfort, but character development. He wants you to grow up spiritually and become like Christ.

Only responsible human beings can exist in an anarchistic society.

One of the troubles of our times is that we are all, I think, precocious as personalities and backward as characters.

When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also.

Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion.