“ When church becomes for us an anointed have, when the grace is flowing and all is well we become sentimental...we remake people into what we need them to be. We are not wise in our love, prudent in ou… Stephen Mansfield
“ You must not think of them [Hebrews 12 Cloud of Witnesses] as perfect saints who never suffered as we do. Instead you must see them as the flawed and the betrayed and the wounded who simply chose to l… Stephen Mansfield
“ The confirmation of history is that we are not called despite our wounding and betrayal; we are wounded and betrayed because we are called. And God yearns to make your pain redemptive in your life. Stephen Mansfield
“ There is no such thing as perfection in a church. Instead, what you should be looking for is a covenanted body, a leadership team that has the goods for coaching you in Christ, and a place where you c… Stephen Mansfield
“ It is as though there is a splinter working its way to the surface, only this splinter is in your soul. And just as the skin wants a foreign object gone and pushes it out, the soul wants to be healthy… Stephen Mansfield
“ Prophets (must) humbly accept the truth that they see through a glass darkly, that they know only in part. In other words, they make mistakes. Mature prophets urge everyone to who they prophesy to jud… Stephen Mansfield
“ What kind of man breaks his vows, destroys lives, and violates the laws of God for false love and brief pleasures? Stephen Mansfield
“ It is testimony to the importance of beer in their story that the brewery was the first permanent building the Pilgrims constructed. Stephen Mansfield
“ What kind of degenerate thinks it is manly to beat a woman—that he is somehow affirming his superior status in the world through violence against those he is intended to protect? Stephen Mansfield
“ SOMEONE ONCE TRIED TO SUMMARIZE A PRINCIPLE IN Aristotle’s epic work Poetics with these words: Action is character. Now Aristotle was describing the elements of drama when he wrote his Poetics, so he… Stephen Mansfield
“ Churchill wrote, In my belief, you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you also understand the most amusing. Stephen Mansfield
“ Abraham Lincoln avoided the extremes of his family’s psychological deformities, but he still suffered from a dark, draining, despair-inducing force that seemed at times to bore into the center of his… Stephen Mansfield
“ When an Antarctic expedition in 1933 returned to the site of an earlier expedition in 1929, a member of the team reported that at the abandoned station there were also four bottles of Guinness on a sh… Stephen Mansfield
“ FAR BETTER IT IS TO DARE MIGHTY THINGS, TO WIN GLORIOUS TRIUMPHS, EVEN THOUGH CHECKERED BY FAILURE, THAN TO TAKE RANK WITH THOSE POOR SPIRITS WHO NEITHER ENJOY NOR SUFFER TOO MUCH, BECAUSE THEY LIVE I… Stephen Mansfield
“ By 1831, he had determined to leave the grocery business and to begin manufacturing chocolate and cocoa. He had convinced himself that drinking chocolate could become an alternative to the gin and whi… Stephen Mansfield
“ As you forgive, you are allowing God to clean up the mess and start making your life right again. The demonic taunts are coming to an end. Peace is returning. Perhaps relationships are even being rest… Stephen Mansfield
