Esther Lee

“I guess I had never bothered to consider that there might such a thing as a boy, but now that I had found one, I thought it was just about the most wonderful concept in the world. He smelled of mud and sugar and an animal I'd never scented before, and a faint meaty odor clung to his fingers, so I licked them.”
― W. Bruce Cameron, A Dog's Purpose

“The problem with time, I've learned, whether it's those first two weeks I got to spend with you, or the final two months I got to spend with him, eventually time always runs out. I have no idea where you are out there in the world, John. But I understand that I lost the right to know these things long ago. No matter how many years go by, I know one thing to be as true as ever was - I'll see you soon then.”
― Nicholas Sparks, Dear John

“God will invade. But I wonder whether people who ask God to interfere openly and directly in our world quite realise what it will be like when He does. When that happens, it is the end of the world. When the author walks on to the stage the play is over. God is going to invade, all right: but what is the good of saying you are on His side then, when you see the whole natural universe melting away like a dream and something else - something it never entered your head to conceive - comes crashing in; something so beautiful to some of us and so terrible to others that none of us will have any choice left? For this time it will God without disguise; something so overwhelming that it will strike either irresistible love or irresistible horror into every creature. It will be too late then to choose your side. There is no use saying you choose to lie down when it has become impossible to stand up. That will not be the time for choosing; it will be the time when we discover which side we really have chosen, whether we realised it before or not. Now, today, this moment, is our chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It will not last for ever. We must take it or leave it.”
― C.S. Lewis

“何其特別的經歷一一禱告和默觀可以打開眼界,看見大 自然的實相;而大自然的實相,令人更能注意上帝的引領。我曾經以為默觀最好在隱修院或內室的寂靜中進行,如今我知道了,大自然也可以是我們默觀的同伴-你不再嘗試限 制或操控你的生命或你的小小世界,相反,你變得對上帝的臨在益加敏銳;你不再漠視或轄制大自然,企圖征服它、擁有它,相反,你會輕撫它;你不再檢視它,而是愛慕它。因此,大自然向你啟示它自己,是經過更新改變的一一大自然 不再是禱告的攔阻,而是明辨的利器;不再是刀槍不入的盾牌,而是揭開的幔子,讓你窺看不可知的領域 讓大自然説話可以開啟辨明上帝同在的新境界,這境界是人不大察覺的。樹和星說了甚麼?有時候,我們實在需要花時間在森林中走走,不論走過的是璀璨新生的明亮,還是濃淡灰影的質樸;然後,求上帝向我們啟示祂的作為、旨意、性情" .”
― 盧雲, Discernment: Reading the Signs of Daily Life