Stephen Lee > Quotes

“If there is anything certain in life, it is this. Time doesn't always heal. Not really. I know they say it does, but that is not true. What time does is to trick you into believing that you have healed, that the hurt of a great loss has lessened. But a single word, a note of a song, a fragrance, a knife point of dawn light across an empty room, any one of these things will take you back to that one moment you have never truly forgotten. These small things are the agents of memory. They are the sharp needle points piercing the living fabric of your life.

Life, my children, isn't linear where the heart is concerned. It is filled with invisible threads that reach out from your past and into your future. These threads connect every second we have lived and breathed. As your own lives move forward and as the decades pass, the more of these threads are cast. Your task is to weave them into a tapestry, one that tells the story of the time we shared.”
― Stephen Lee

“Hatred, like a bush fire, ultimately consumes those who propagate it, leaving nothing but scorched, barren earth behind in their hearts. Love, the greatest of reckless endeavours, inspires men to greatness in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds... Maybe this book is just that, a reckless endeavour of the heart.”
― Stephen Lee, Canton Elegy: A Father's Letter of Sacrifice, Survival, and Enduring Love

“He'll swallow up in victory, Grim death, the king of fears From faces all the Lord most high Will wipe away the tears;”
― Stephen Lee, Puritan Prayers, Poems & Meditations: Collection of Authentic Puritan Prayers, Poems & Devotions

“An humble, faithful life, O Lord, Forever let me walk; Let my obedience testify My praise lies not in talk.”
― Stephen Lee, Puritan Prayers, Poems & Meditations: Collection of Authentic Puritan Prayers, Poems & Devotions

“Of all the crowns JEHOVAH bears, Salvation is his dearest claim; That gracious sound well-pleas'd he hears, And owns EMMANUEL for his name.”
― Stephen Lee, Puritan Prayers, Poems & Meditations: Collection of Authentic Puritan Prayers, Poems & Devotions

“Sweet was the hour I freedom felt To call my Jesus mine; To see his smiling face, and melt In pleasures all divine.”
― Stephen Lee, Puritan Prayers, Poems & Meditations: Collection of Authentic Puritan Prayers, Poems & Devotions

“I in obedience to Thy will Thou knowest did submit. It was my duty so to do; O Lord, accept of it.”
― Stephen Lee, Puritan Prayers, Poems & Meditations: Collection of Authentic Puritan Prayers, Poems & Devotions

“What God is like to Him I serve? What Saviour like to mine? O never let me from Thee swerve, For truly I am Thine.”
― Stephen Lee, Puritan Prayers, Poems & Meditations: Collection of Authentic Puritan Prayers, Poems & Devotions