Stephen Mansfield Quote

There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnit...

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

It is childish to eat primarily or only to please your tongue.

Precision, speed, unambiguity, knowledge of files, continuity, discretion, unity, strict subordination, reduction of friction and of material and personal costs - these are raised to the optimum point...

Be nice to people... maybe it'll be unappreciated, unreciprocated, or ignored, but spread the love anyway. We rise by lifting others.

Even now I remember those pictures, like pictures in a storybook one loved as a child. Radiant meadows, mountains vaporous in the trembling distance; leaves ankle-deep on a gusty autumn road; bonfires...

My intellect is so limited, Lord, that I can only trust in You to preserve me as I should be.

The man who can fully understand the word covenant is a theologian. That is the key of all theology—the covenant of works by which we fell, and the covenant of grace by which we stand, Christ fulfilli...

When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.

I met a boy whose eyes showed me that the past, present and future were all the same thing.