The Lord is letting
The Lord is letting the wheat and the tares mature before he fully purges the Church. He is also testing you to see if you will be misled. The devil is trying to deceive the very elect. Ezra Taft Benson
Mature
When you’re a first-round
When you’re a first-round pick and you get to the big leagues at 22, there’s almost a sense that you’ve got to mature. Evan Longoria
It’s one of the
It’s one of the bases of all human existence – the relation between parents and children, whether biologically or metaphorically. It’s something we can never get away from, even in a civilization where we’re controlled by robots. It’s the basic relationship between mature people who represent paternal and maternal figures and young people. It’s universal … Read more
Mature people transmit to
Mature people transmit to young people a certain wisdom that comes from maturity, but young people are close to a more intuitive wisdom, and they can give that back to older people who have lost it to their maturation. Eugene Green
Like a child exploring
Like a child exploring the attic of an old house on a rainy day, discovering a trunk full of treasure and then calling all his brothers and sisters to share the find, Richard J. ‘Foster has ‘found’ the spiritual disciplines that the modern world has stored away and forgot, and has excitedly called us to … Read more
Slowly but surely I
Slowly but surely I have been soaking Rilke up these last few months: the man, his work and his life. And that is probably the only right way with literature, with study, with people or with anything else: to let it all soak in, to let it all mature slowly inside you until it has … Read more
Victor Mature was a
Victor Mature was a big man; he had a great swagger. I liked him and I knew we’d be good together on screen. Esther Williams
Modern infidelity is different
Modern infidelity is different than traditional infidelity and sits on top of the romantic ideal that you find the one and that if you have everything that you need at home, you have no reason to go looking elsewhere. And if you have an affair, it’s a symptom of a flawed relationship. If you don’t … Read more
The self… is not
The self… is not an organic thing that has a specific location, whose fundamental fate is to be born, to mature, to die; it is a dramatic effect arising diffusely from a scene that is presented. Erving Goffman
To live is to
To live is to play at the meaning of life…The upshot of this . . . is that it teaches us once and for all that childlike foolishness is the calling of mature men. Ernest Becker