Remembrance Quotes - Page 3

Remember that every guilty compliance with the humors of the world, every sinful indulgence of our own passions, is laying up cares and fears for the hour of darkness; and that the remembrance of ill-spent time will strew our sick-bed with thorns, and rack our sinking spirits with despair.

Pain is the most individualized thing on earth. It is true that it is the great common bond as well, but that realization only comes when it is over. To suffer is to be alone. To watch another suffer is to know the barrier that shuts each of us away by himself Only individuals can suffer.

Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.

In trouble we are prone to forget all that we have heard and read that makes for our comfort. Now what is the reason that a man comes to think of that which otherwise he should never have called to mind? The Holy Spirit brings it to his remembrance; He is a Comforter, bringing to mind useful things at such times when we have most need of them.

When you go home, tell them of us and say, for their tomorrow we gave our today.

Pain is only bearable if we know it will end, not if we deny it exists.

Great joys make us love the world. Great sadnesses make us understand the world.

All knowledge is but remembrance.

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.

Another observation, in a former letter of yours, has not escaped my remembrance – the three lessons which a minister has to learn: 1. Humility. 2. Humility. 3. Humility. How long are we learning the true nature of Christianity!

If I have done any deed worthy of remembrance, that deed will be my monument. If not, no monument can preserve my memory.

You can't order remembrance out of the mind; and a wrong that was a wrong yesterday must be a wrong to-morrow.

There is no remembrance which time does not obliterate, nor pain which death does not terminate.

Sweet. remembrance of the Master is the sum total, of all practices.

Yom HaShoah is a vital day in the Jewish calendar, providing us with a focal point for our remembrance. We cannot bring the dead back to life, but we can bring their memory back to life and ensure they are not forgotten. We can undertake in our lives to do what they were so cruelly prevented from doing in theirs.

We were preparing not Peace only, but Eternal Peace. There was about us the halo of some divine mission. We must be alert, stern, righteous and ascetic. For we were bent on doing great, permanent and noble things.

An architect ought to be an educated man so as to leave a more lasting remembrance in his treatises.

...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.

Wherever you may go, the least plant may bring you clear remembrance of the Creator.

Lift up your hearts to Him, sometimes even at your meals, and when you are in company; the least little remembrance will always be acceptable to Him. You need not cry very loud; He is nearer to us than we are aware.

Oh, can I really believe the poet's tales, that when one first sees the object of one's love, one imagines one has seen her long ago, that all love like all knowledge is remembrance, that love too has its prophecies in the individual.

Asleep or awake, writing or reading, whatever you do, you must never be without the remembrance of God.

Melody is a form of remembrance. It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears.

In our endeavors to recall to memory something long forgotten, we often find ourselves upon the very verge of remembrance, without being able, in the end, to remember.

All that remains is dreammaking and strange remembrance.