Remembrance Quotes - Page 2

Adversity often activates a strength we did not know we had.

If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.

Seeking to forget makes exile all the longer; the secret of redemption lies in remembrance.

The living owe it to those who no longer can speak to tell their story for them.

Black History Month must be more than just a month of remembrance; it should be a tribute to our history and reminder of the work that lies in the months and years ahead.

These martyrs of patriotism gave their lives for an idea.

Perhaps creating something is nothing but an act of profound remembrance.

Freemasonry is a moral order, instituted by virtuous men, with the praiseworthy design of recalling to our remembrance the most sublime truths, in the midst of the most innocent and social pleasures, founded on liberality, brotherly love and charity.

There's rosemary and rue. These keep Seeming and savor all the winter long. Grace and remembrance be to you.

My dear brother, we must not mind a little suffering for Christs sake. When I am getting through a hedge, if my head and shoulders are safely through, I can bear the pricking of my legs. Let us rejoice in the remembrance that our holy Head has surmounted all His suffering and triumphed over death. Let us follow Him patiently; we shall soon be partakers of His victory

No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away.

Everyone dies but not everyone lives.

Remembrance restores possibility to the past, making what happened incomplete and completing what never was. Remembrance is neither what happened nor what did not happen but, rather, their potentialization, their becoming possible once again.

Remembrance of things past.

Khashyah (fear) is to fear Allah until His fear comes between you and your sins - that is true khashyah. And Dhikr (remembrance) is to obey Allah so whoever obeys Him has indeed remembered Him, and whoever does not obey Him is not a dhakir - even if he makes abundant tasbih (glorification) and recites much of Qur'an.

Where do all the women who have watched so carefully over the lives of their beloved ones get the heroism to send them to face the cannon?

If the ego is in the slightest way separated from its source, it yearns to find it again. This search comes from the remembrance of unity and plenitude. As every experience emanates from the non-experience which is our real being, the me also bears the scent of its source. This remembering is awakened through those moments of desirelessness and in deep sleep.

Nothing sorts out memories from ordinary moments. It is only later that they claim remembrance, when they show their scars.

O, heavenly Father: we thank thee for food and remember the hungry. We thank thee for health and remember the sick. We thank thee for friends and remember the friendless. We thank thee for freedom and remember the enslaved. May these remembrances stir us to service, That thy gifts to us may be used for others. Amen.

It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes.

Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

This is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity, since it has such a remembrance of the best, such a concern for the future, since it is enriched with so many arts, sciences, and discoveries, it is impossible but the being which contains all these must be immortal.

A Mark that spoke of loss was still a Mark, a remembrance. You could not lose something you never had.

For me, religiosity is ... the constant remembrance of the presence of the soul.

Make peace with silence, and remind yourself that it is in this space that you'll come to remember your spirit. When you're able to transcend an aversion to silence, you'll also transcend many other miseries. And it is in this silence that the remembrance of God will be activated.