bible and theology on Memorization

The following story is told about the Chicago Bears’ coach, Mike Ditka and one of his most famous players: One day Ditka was about to deliver a locker room pep talk and he looked up and saw defensiv...

Quickly—without checking Google or your Bible—name as many of the Ten Commandments as you can. Go ahead . . . I’ll wait. How did you do? If you struggled to remember them, you’re not alone. According ...

God's word, if you don't use it, you'll lose it. If you don't apply it, you'll forget it.

Does reading the Bible really change us? Does it have the ability, through the power of the Holy Spirit, to shape and form our characters? That's what The Center for Bible Engagement wanted to fin...

Some years ago when radio was still a primary source of entertainment, a French dramatist was commissioned to write the script for the debut episode of a Bible study radio series. For the most part, ...

The Necessity of Memory Memory—or, more actively,  remembering , plays an all-important role in our lives. Our culture likes us to focus on  the now, "looking forward rather than looking back&q...

Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved.

Why is it that countless American school-children memorize the Gettysburg Address each year? Is it a simple civics lesson? An opportunity to learn about the Civil War, a turning point in American hist...

Memory is more indelible than ink.

Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.

Memory is one of the highest powers in our nature. By it day is linked to day, the unity of life through all our years is kept up, and we know that we are still ourselves. In the spiritual life, recol...

Memory is the fabric of our souls. It enables us to integrate and make sense of the experiences of our bodies, minds, and spirits. It makes us who we are and allows us to keep our loved ones close, ev...

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Remembering is a godly act — time and again retrieving the truth of God in the present. Perhaps this is why St. Paul constantly “reminds” the early churches of the gospel of Jesus — the church is the ...

We do not remember days, we remember moments.

When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.

Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.

A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.

Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.

It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.

To a Hebrew, to remember meant to re-experience in the present the power and effect of a past event.”

The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

Remember. It is probably the greatest biblical exhortation… after “love.”

Maybe the most sacred function of memory is just that: to render the distinction between the past, present, and future ultimately meaningless: to enable us at some level of our being to inhabit that s...

God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.

What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.

Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.

"Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was."

God's Word must be so strongly fixed in our minds that it becomes the dominant influence in our thoughts, our attitudes, and our actions. One of the most effective ways of influencing our minds is...

Nothing cures ingratitude as quickly as a good memory.