Quotes about Memory

The emancipatory gift of YHWH to Israel is contrasted with all the seductions of images. The memory of the exodus concerns the God of freedom who frees.

Moses knows that prosperity breeds amnesia.

It is almost startling to hear this warning of departed time sounding among the tombs, and telling the lapse of the hour, which, like a billow, has rolled us onward towards the grave.

Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.

I don't believe that grief passes away. It has its time and place forever. More time is added to it; it becomes a story within a story. But grief and griever alike endure.

Discipleship is a commitment to the memory and presence of Jesus Christ that makes a difference in how a life is lived, driving thought and behavior week in and week out.

At the end of life, each of us must answer the question, Whose story captured my soul?

The power of citizens in a society is determined by their ranking in games that have been played. A society preserves its memory of past winners. Its record-keeping functions are crucial to societal order. Large bureaucracies grow out of the need to verify the numerous entitlements of the citizens of that society.

Any attempt to vary from the past in such a way as to cut the past off, causing it to be forgotten, has little cultural importance.

in the first part, the master-faculties are Observation and Memory, so in the second, the master-faculty is the Discursive Reason.

The memory of a good deed lives.

Sometimes I'll jot a clever turn of phrase down. Sometimes I'll just remember it.