Quotes about Remembrance

Yet though these ways be lost, thou hast left one, Which is, immoderate grief that she is gone. But we may 'scape that sin, yet weep as much; Our tears are due because we are not such. Some tears, that knot of friends, her death must cost, Because the chain is broke, but no link lost.

The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history.

He only deserves to be remembered by posterity who treasures up and preserves the history of his ancestors.

History: a collection of epitaphs.

One of the great enemies of hope is forgetting God's promises.

How quickly we forget God's great deliverances in our lives. How easily we take for granted the miracles he performed in our past.

I wish to go on living even after my death.

No treasure-house of Atreus was ever as rich as a well-stored memory.

When we recount with our community God's answers to our prayers, we are laying spiritual monuments that we hope will have more endurance than mere stones.

The only thing of importance, when we depart, will be the traces of love we have left behind.

We pray not to inform God or instruct Him but to beseech Him closely, to be made intimate with Him, by continuance in supplication; to be humbled; to be reminded of our sins.

A little lifting of the heart suffices; a little remembrance of God, one act of inward worship are prayers which, however short, are nevertheless acceptable to God.