Maturity Quotes

“There is nothing wrong with prosperity. It is an excellent servant. But it can become a bad master. And it disguises the fact that it cannot satisfy our deepest needs. It creates a hunger for more of the same when what we need is actually something different. Set our heart on it and it will lead us astray.”
― Sinclair B. Ferguson, Maturity: Growing Up and Going On in the Christian Life

“The Armour of God is no protection against the wiles of the devil if our faith is not real and active in our basic relationships and private life.
For what good is armour if the enemy has already found his way behind it? Success in Christian warfare depends on the right preparations being made.”
― Sinclair B. Ferguson, Maturity: Growing Up and Going On in the Christian Life

“Alongside a confused approach to reading God's word, our chief weakness with respect to letting Christ's word indwell us is a failure to bow our wills in obedience to it. Too often our minds are the slaves of our feelings. If so our wills will soon be captured by them too.”
― Sinclair B. Ferguson, Maturity: Growing Up and Going On in the Christian Life

“Feeding our minds with the word of Christ is essential if our hearts are to be filled with the joy of Christ. Yet, despite this, we are all too slow to read and meditate on the Scriptures, to seek to master them as far as we can, and in the process be mastered by them.”
― Sinclair B. Ferguson, Maturity: Growing Up and Going On in the Christian Life

“We need our faculties trained by Scripture to discern the difference between the apparently spiritual and the truth of the gospel. A regular diet of biblical teaching helps to develop in us an instinctive wisdom.”
― Sinclair B. Ferguson, Maturity: Growing Up and Going On in the Christian Life

“The person whose only focus is 'there is nothing wrong with it’ will remain self-centred, living according to the principles of the flesh.
At very best they will be a babe in Christ, dominated by inner needs and desires rather than by the life-giving word of the gospel and the other-directed life of the Spirit of Christ.”
― Sinclair B. Ferguson, Maturity: Growing Up and Going On in the Christian Life