No tongue can express the greatness of the love which Jesus Christ bears to our souls. He did not wish that between Him and His servants there should be any other pledge than Himself, to keep alive the remembrance of Him.
Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.
The myth holds us, therefore, not through its romantic flavor, not the remembrance of beauty of some bygone age, not through the possibilities of fantasy, but because it expresses to us something real and existing in ourselves, as it was to those who first stumbled upon the symbols to give them life.
Man does not understand nor accept immortality except on condition of self-remembrance.
Forgetfulness is necessary to remembrance. Ideas are retained by renovation of that impression which time is always wearing away,and which new images are striving to obliterate. If useless thoughts could be expelled from the mind, all the valuable parts of our knowledge would more frequently recur, and every recurrence would reinstate them in their former place.
Sex is the mysticism of a materialistic society - in the beginning was the Flesh, and the Flesh became Word. . . [it has] its own mysteries - this is my birth [control] pill; swallow it in remembrance of me!
Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.
As we celebrate Thanksgiving, we should reflect on the full meaning of this day as we enjoy the fellowship that is so much a part of the holiday festivities. Searching our hearts, we should ask what we can do as individuals to demonstrate our gratitude to God for all He has done. Such reflection can only add to the significance of this precious day of remembrance.
I have been told, that in some public discourses of mine my reverence for the intellect has made me unjustly cold to the personalrelations. But now I almost shrink at the remembrance of such disparaging words. For persons are love's world, and the coldest philosopher cannot recount the debt of the young soul wandering here in nature to the power of love, without being tempted to unsay, as treasonable to nature, aught derogatory to the social instincts.
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
Forgetfulness leads to exile while remembrance is the secret of redemption.
Great joys make us love the world. Great sadnesses make us understand the world.
The last few hours were certainly very painful," replied Anne: "but when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure. One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering-
There's no use in weeping, Though we are condemned to part: There's such a thing as keeping, A remembrance in one's heart.
Wherever you may go, the least plant may bring you clear remembrance of the Creator.
We were preparing not Peace only, but Eternal Peace. There was about us the halo of some divine mission. We were bent on doing great, permanent noble things.
I read "Remembrance of Things Past" in the original French. I never start the day without reading me some [Marcel] Proust.
There is a remembrance of the dead, to which we turn even from the charms of the living. These we would not exchange for the song of pleasure or the bursts of revelry.
Remembrance is to the heart what water is to the fish. And what is the state of a fish that leaves water?
Remembrance, like a candle, burns brightest at Christmastime.