The Church has affirmed the belief throughout its history, while also changing emphases and wording to reflect an increasingly mature understanding.

Three years later, Griffin returned to Philadelphia and became a basketball star, with silky post moves and a mature understanding of the game.

The booklet includes teachings based on the guiding principle that chastity is "the basis for a mature understanding of sexuality."

Gnosis is a transcendental as well as mature understanding.

As children enter pre-teen and teen years, there is a more mature understanding.

A health care administrator long active in civic affairs, Ms. Bowman has a mature and independent understanding of the problems that face the entire city.

And I think that at this point, I mean, sure, once upon a time, 20 years ago, we didn't really have a mature understanding of crypto.

In 2010, he displayed a more mature understanding of the problem.

She was youth and beauty and mature understanding.

A mature understanding of how mind and body is bent to the will of the task.