Quotes about Remembrance
History: a collection of epitaphs.
— Elbert Hubbard
One of the great enemies of hope is forgetting God's promises.
— John Piper
How quickly we forget God's great deliverances in our lives. How easily we take for granted the miracles he performed in our past.
— David Wilkerson
I wish to go on living even after my death.
— Anne Frank
No treasure-house of Atreus was ever as rich as a well-stored memory.
— Edith Wharton
When we recount with our community God's answers to our prayers, we are laying spiritual monuments that we hope will have more endurance than mere stones.
— Edward Welch
The only thing of importance, when we depart, will be the traces of love we have left behind.
— Albert Schweitzer
We pray not to inform God or instruct Him but to beseech Him closely, to be made intimate with Him, by continuance in supplication; to be humbled; to be reminded of our sins.
— St. John Chrysostom
A little lifting of the heart suffices; a little remembrance of God, one act of inward worship are prayers which, however short, are nevertheless acceptable to God.
— Brother Lawrence
She died, and left to me This heath, this calm and quiet scene, The memory of what has been, And never more will be.
— William Wordsworth
Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to life as long as God himself
— Elie Wiesel
At the time of the liberation of the camps, I remember, we were convinced that after Auschwitz there would be no more wars, no more racism, no more hatred, no more anti-Semitism. We were wrong. This produced a feeling close to despair. For if Auschwitz could not cure mankind of racism, was there any chance of success ever? The fact is, the world has learned nothing. Otherwise, how is one to comprehend the atrocities committed in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia…
— Elie Wiesel