![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 patterns and rhythms of the Christian life in a community, so that we may bear fruit like a well-watered tree. Despite common appearances, the church is the place where God's new creation is coming into existence and being sustained by the Spirit like a great vineyard.](/assets/img/quote-photos/the-key-to-maturity-is-time-and-community-discernment-and-godly-wisdom-develop-i.jpg)
Related Quotes
christian courage firsts
A Christian builds his fortitude on a better foundation than stoicism; he is pleased with every thing that happens, because he knows it could not happen unless it first pleased God, and that which pleases Him must be best. Charles Caleb Colton
christian white house
My lowest days as a Christian have been more fulfilling and rewarding than all the days of glory in the White House.
christian hate envy
The hate which we all bear with the most Christian patience is the hate of those who envy us.
christian mind sorrow
Some well-meaning Christians tremble for their salvation, because they have never gone through that valley of tears and of sorrow, which they have been taught to consider as an ordeal that must be passed through before they can arrive at regeneration. To satisfy such minds, it may be observed, that the slightest sorrow for sin is sufficient, if it produce amendment, and that the greatest is insufficient, if it do not.
christian lying thinking
In pulpit eloquence, the grand difficulty lies here--to give the subject all the dignity it so fully deserves, without attaching any importance to ourselves. The Christian messenger cannot think too highly of his prince, nor too humbly of himself.
christian regret mean
Oh! captive, bound, and double-ironed," cried the phantom, "not to know, that ages of incessant labour, by immortal creatures, for this earth must pass into eternity before the good of which it is susceptible is all developed. Not to know that any Christian spirit working kindly in its little sphere, whatever it may be, will find its mortal life too short for its vast means of usefulness. Not to know that no space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused! Charles Dickens
christian years games
Mr. Cruncher... always spoke of the year of our Lord as Anna Dominoes: apparently under the impression that the Christian era dated from the invention of a popular game, by a lady who had bestowed her name upon it.
christian prayer mean
Funds are low again, hallelujah! That means God trusts us and is willing to leave His reputation in our hands. Charles Studd
christian real venture
Real Christians revel in desperate ventures for Christ, expecting from God great things and attempting the same with exhilaration.
godly spirit holy-spirit
Earthly wisdom is doing what comes naturally. Godly wisdom is doing what the Holy Spirit compels us to do. Charles Stanley
godly saws surrender
Faith, as Paul saw it, was a living, flaming thing leading to surrender and obedience to the commandments of Christ. Aiden Wilson Tozer
godly impossible sand
Building a godly life on the sand of scriptural illiteracy is impossible. Edwin Louis Cole
godly thinking yesterday
If you knew me yesterday, please do not think that it is the same person that you are meeting today. John Powell
godly fog light
God's word is tailor-made for gray-slush days. It sends a beam of light through the fog. It signals safety when we fear we'll never make it through. Charles R. Swindoll
godly heart opened
She was very godly and just opened her heart to everybody. Jim Scott
godly understanding mind
God grant that as our horizon of duty is widened, our minds may widen with it; that as our burden is increased, our shoulders may be strengthened to bear it. God grant to us that spirit of wisdom and understanding, uprightness, and godly fear, without which, even in greatest things there is nothing; with which, even in the smallest things there is every thing.
godly safety foundation
The only assurance of our nation's safety is to lay our foundation in morality and religion. Abraham Lincoln
godly order self
A "godly" person is one who ceases to be self-centered in order to become God-centered.
maturity roots style
Antithesis may be the blossom of wit, but it will never arrive at maturity unless sound sense be the trunk and truth the root.
maturity goal childhood
My ideal goal is to "mature" into childhood. That would be genuine maturity. Bruno Schulz
maturity expensive
Gifts are free, but maturity is expensive. Bill Johnson
maturity degrees kind
Every kind of science, if it has only reached a certain degree of maturity, automatically becomes a part of mathematics. David Hilbert
maturity maturity-level way
Juno MacGuff: I was out handling things way beyond my maturity level. Diablo Cody
maturity different today
As I began to love myself I stopped craving for a different life, and I could see that everything that surrounded me was inviting me to grow. Today I call it 'maturity'. Charlie Chaplin
maturity use mature
Anyone with the maturity to surrender entirely to God is mature enough for God to use. Beth Moore
maturity psychological permission
Adolescence is society's permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility. Bill Vaughan
maturity mind belief
Maturity of mind is best shown in slow belief. Baltasar Gracian