Inspirational Quotes on Maturation

“Youth and age touch only the surface of our lives.”

“Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us. No reader worth his salt trots along in obedience to a time-table.”

“They ran their heads very hard against wrong ideas, and persisted in trying to fit the circumstances to the ideas instead of trying to extract ideas from the circumstances.”

“No one can become and remain a theologian unless he is compelled again and again to be astonished at himself.”

“Desire for and delight in God's Word are inseparable.”

“In the little world in which children have their existence whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injustice. He may be only small injustice that the child can be exposed to; but the child is small, and its world is small, and its rocking-horse stance as many hands high according to scale, as a big-boned Irish hunter.”

“I don't want to know anything. I am not curious!”

“Apprehension of a painful or disagreeable recognition made me tremble. I am confident that it took no distinctness of shape, and that it was the revival for a few minutes of the terror of childhood.”

“When you enter heaven you shall find Him there bearing the dew of His youth; and through eternity the Lord Jesus shall still remain the perennial spring of joy, and life, and glory to His people.”

“Almightiness and wisdom combined will make no failures.”

“If boys would think, it would be well to give them less classwork and more opportunity for thought.”

“I work pretty hard for a sufficient living, and therefore – yes, I do well.”