Stephen Mansfield Quotes

#1. Anything that broadens your musicality always moves the way you write drum or guitar parts.

Philip Selway

#2. If I had to give up performing, it wouldn't bother me too much. But I couldn't live without my writing. I put all my feelings, my very soul, into my writing. I tell the world in my songs things I wouldn't even tell my husband.

Dolly Parton

#3. Your horrific time of trouble offered you truths about yourself, windows into your own soul, and maps to the terrain of your inner life. Wise people learn to gather this intelligence to help them conquer themselves and then to live in loftier ways.

Stephen Mansfield

#4. I would definitely not rule out doing television, because I think it's a great medium for telling stories.

Chris Pratt

#5. we will never become the men we are called to be unless we learn the art of friendship and intentionally cultivate deep, meaningful, rowdy relationships with other men.

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#6. Small things done consistently, though undramatic, yield more than the large and sporadic.

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#7. Honorable men don't settle for lives of regret.

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#8. Kings and marshals can look back and relive their triumphs, their great victories. We common folk must take what pleasure we can from life's little victories.

Raymond E. Feist

#9. Here is where it leads us. And let me make this clear: there is nothing that happened in that wounding experience with that church that is worth what is happening to you now.

Stephen Mansfield

#10. a man cannot fulfill his purpose if he is living for applause, approval, and affirmation in this world. It simply will not come - not enough, certainly, to answer the needs of his soul.

Stephen Mansfield

#11. Every Christian has a capacity for the most magnificent Christlikeness. Yet, every Christian also has the potential to commit the most disgusting and horrible acts of the flesh.

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#12. A banker can be as called and as pleasing to God as Billy Graham may be when he preaches. A brewer can serve as valuable a role in the kingdom of God as a missionary, a priest, or a pope. This is the truth of Christianity and this, too, is a core truth of the Guinness story.

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#13. Depend upon it, behind all great achievement there lies great toil: nothing that is worth doing is done easily.

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#14. But the truth is, when it comes to emotional pain - the pain that registers inside - the greatest damage is often the thing that continues to resonate when the feeling of the pain subsides. It is that message that the pain tells us about ourselves and about the meaning of our lives.

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#15. I want to identify what a genuine man does - the virtues, the habits, the disciplines, the duties, the actions of true manhood - and then call men to do it.

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#16. Honorable men refuse to wallow in the small and the bitter. Honorable men refuse to hate life because something once went wrong. Honorable men don't build monuments to their disappointments, nor do they let others brand them and curse them to their destruction. Honorable

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#17. God is God, and I'm not.

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#18. Waiting for the gusting wind to take down her temperature, burningly aware of the memory of his hands on her waist, her shoulders, her wrists. Her head was too full of the memory, the too-recent agony of wanting to kiss him.

Marissa Meyer

#19. Beer, well respected and rightly consumed, can be a gift of God. It is one of his mysteries, which it was his delight to conceal and the glory of kings to search out. And men enjoy it to mark their days and celebrate their moments and stand with their brothers in the face of what life brings.

Stephen Mansfield

#20. declare war on those parts of themselves that keep them from exceptional lives.

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#21. Look at the sparrows; they do not know what they will do in the next moment. Let us literally live from moment to moment.

Mahatma Gandhi

#22. All it takes for a contagious manly culture to form is for one genuine man to live out genuine manhood. It creates a model, something for other men to feed upon and pattern themselves after. It also gives other genuine men a vital connection that sustains and extends who they are.

Stephen Mansfield

#23. Your destiny is fulfilled as you invest in the destinies of others.

Stephen Mansfield

#24. One may not go and find love, it must be embraced.

T.F. Hodge