Quotes about Memory
To remember a wrongdoing is to struggle against it.
— Miroslav Volf
the central question was how to remember rightly. And given my Christian sensibilities, my question from the start was, How should I remember abuse as a person committed to loving the wrongdoer and overcoming evil with good?
— Miroslav Volf
When I was a crusade director in British Columbia, all of our meetings were at 9:03. Somebody said 'That's ridiculous. Why did you do that?' It's because you remember it. You've never been to another 9:03 meeting.
— Josh McDowell
Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!
— Henry David Thoreau
In order to be an image of God, the spirit must turn to what is eternal, hold it in spirit, keep it in memory, and by loving it, embrace it in the will.
— Edith Stein
History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.
— Malcolm X
As the car was turning around to start down the avenue John Paul turned around and waved, and it was only then that his expression showed some possibility that he might be realizing, as I did, that we would never see each other on earth again.
— Thomas Merton
Perhaps the book of life, in the end, is the book of what one has lived and if one has lived nothing, he is not in the book of life.
— Thomas Merton
A pleasure is not full grown until it is remembered.
— CS Lewis
The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.
— George Eliot
O may I join the choir invisibleOf those immortal dead who live againIn minds made better by their presence.
— George Eliot
Oh, may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again.
— George Eliot