There is a certain kind of maturity that can be attained only through the discipline of suffering.
Interpretation
True maturity often comes from enduring and learning through difficult experiences.
This quote highlights the idea that personal growth and maturity are often achieved through the challenges we face in life. Suffering can be a catalyst for discipline, resilience, and deeper understanding, ultimately leading to a more mature perspective on life.
In practice
In a motivational speech about overcoming obstacles and personal growth.
Both God's love and God's wrath are ratcheted up in the move from the old covenant to the new, from the Old Testament to the New. These themes barrel along through redemptive history, unresolved, until they come to a resounding climax - in the cross.
It is a cheap zeal that reserves its passions to combat only the sins and temptations of others.
Many of us in our praying are like nasty little boys who ring front door bells and run away before anyone answers.
The kingdom of heaven is worth infinitely more than the cost of discipleship, and those who know where the treasure lies joyfully abandon everything else to secure it.
Failure to believe stems from moral failure to recognize the truth, not from want of evidence, but from willful neglect or distortion of the evidence.
Imagination is a God-given gift; but if it is fed dirt by the eye, it will be dirty. All sin, not least sexual sin, begins with the imagination. Therefore what feeds the imagination is of maximum importance in the pursuit of kingdom righteousness.
Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?
Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.
He who hoards much loses much.
The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.
The greater part of human pain is unnecessary. It is self-created as long as the unobserved mind runs your life.
An unreflective mind is a poor roof. Passion, like the rain, floods the house. But if the roof is strong, there is shelter. Whoever follows impure thoughts Suffers in this world and the next. In both worlds he suffers And how greatly.
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