Quotes about Remembrance

You know, when you've idolized something, you put it on a shelf, lift it up, and when King Day comes out, you pull it out and show it. Or when Black History Month comes out, you show it, or when April 4th or other times, you show it. But, you see, Dad wouldn't want us to idolize.

What the eyes had seen could not be erased.

Never to forgive—never to forget

When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.

Nothing loved is ever lost or perished.

we would, all of us, be less than we are if it weren't for those we love and who've loved us who have died.

What the first Christians knew as the "New Testament" was not a book, but the Eucharist. In a cultic setting, at a solemn sacrificial banquet, Jesus made an offering of his "body" and "blood." He used traditional sacrificial language. He spoke of the action as his memorial. He told those who attended to repeat the action they had witnessed: "Do this in remembrance of me" (Luke 22:19).

You bid me burn your letters. But I must forget you first.

Oh the remembrance of my great sins, of my great temptations, and of my great fear of perishing forever! They bring afresh into my mind the remembrance of my great help, my great supports from Heaven, and the great grace that God extended to such a wretch as I.

Every instance in which the mercy of God occurs to our remembrance, ought to be embraced by us as an occasion of ascribing glory to God.

That thou remember them, some claim as debt; I think it mercy, if thou wilt forget.

I think it mercy if Thou wilt forget.