Quotes about Remembrance

When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.

Nothing loved is ever lost or perished.

we would, all of us, be less than we are if it weren't for those we love and who've loved us who have died.

What the first Christians knew as the "New Testament" was not a book, but the Eucharist. In a cultic setting, at a solemn sacrificial banquet, Jesus made an offering of his "body" and "blood." He used traditional sacrificial language. He spoke of the action as his memorial. He told those who attended to repeat the action they had witnessed: "Do this in remembrance of me" (Luke 22:19).

You bid me burn your letters. But I must forget you first.

Oh the remembrance of my great sins, of my great temptations, and of my great fear of perishing forever! They bring afresh into my mind the remembrance of my great help, my great supports from Heaven, and the great grace that God extended to such a wretch as I.

Every instance in which the mercy of God occurs to our remembrance, ought to be embraced by us as an occasion of ascribing glory to God.

That thou remember them, some claim as debt; I think it mercy, if thou wilt forget.

I think it mercy if Thou wilt forget.

Yet though these ways be lost, thou hast left one, Which is, immoderate grief that she is gone. But we may 'scape that sin, yet weep as much; Our tears are due because we are not such. Some tears, that knot of friends, her death must cost, Because the chain is broke, but no link lost.

The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history.

He only deserves to be remembered by posterity who treasures up and preserves the history of his ancestors.