New Year Approaches...

 "As we grow older in life, years somehow seem to shorten and New Year's Day approaches with an ever increasing tempo. The more mature we get, the more we realize that time is only relative; how we live means more than how long we live. Haply also we do not live by years, but by days. In His wisdom God does not show us all that lies ahead. So we enter a new year to live it day by day. What is past is past. Today we start anew, and what we do today will make our life for tomorrow. Chin up, shoulders straight, eyes agleam, let us salute the New Year, and each day let us follow more faithfully, more courageously, more daringly the lead of our great Captain who bids us follow Him."

~ William Thomson Hanzsche

Greatest Union

"The union Christ had with the Father was the greatest that we can conceive of in this life—if indeed we can conceive of it. Yet we have no indication that even Jesus was constantly awash with revelations as to what he should do. His union with the Father was so great that he was at all times obedient. This obedience was something that rested in his mature will and understanding of his life before God, not on always being told "Now do this" and "Now do that" with regard to every details of his life or work." ~ Dallas Willard

Becoming One in Marriage

"The self-disclosure and selflessness of becoming one is what individuals fear most about marriage, but when achieved, it’s what spiritually mature couples enjoy most." ~ Gary Thomas

Spiritual Maturation Involves

"We will begin to mature spiritually only when we realize that “goodness and wisdom make us happier than food and sex.” ~ Ellen Charry

One Thing to Another

"The immature mind hops from one thing to another; the mature mind seeks to follow through." ~ Harry Overstreet

Read the Bible

"The man who has the Bible, and the Holy Spirit in his heart, has everything which is absolutely needful to make him spiritually wise and mature. He needs no priest to break the bread of life for him. He needs no ancient traditions, no writings of the Fathers, no voice of the Church to guide him into all truth. He has the well of truth open before him and what more can he want? Yes! though he is shut up alone in a prison, or cast on a desert island, though he never see a church, or minister, or sacrament again–if he has but the Bible, he has got the infallible guide, and needs no other. If he has but the will to read that Bible rightly, it will certainly teach him the road that leads to Heaven. It is here alone that infallibility resides. It is not in any church. It is not in the Councils. It is not in ministers. It is only in the written Word." ~ J.C. Ryle

Looking for a Good Man

"Women, unless and until you have found a man who is spiritually mature enough to disciple you and your kids, you haven’t found a man who is qualified to be your husband." ~ Voddie Baucham