Love, Training and Maturity

"We develop into mature human beings not by an automatic process operating from within the human person as a separate organism but as a response to the cherishing and training of our parents and teachers. The process by which a human fetus eventually becomes a mature person able to recognize and follow what is good depends on the loving and purposeful will of those who have gone before."


Lesslie Newbigin, Foolishness to the Greeks, p. 92