christian living on Memory

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

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

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

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

Memory is more indelible than ink.

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 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...

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

Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.

How vast a memory has love!

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

My memory is almost gone, but I remember two things; that I am a great sinner, and Christ is a Great Savior.

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy.

In the film  Memento , we meet Leonard, who is searching for the man who killed his wife. He appears to be the typical Hollywood hero of the early 2000s. The hair is right; the jaw line, the atmospher...

In her excellent little book (Mythical Me), Richella Parham describes the importance of looking on the past with grace: Developing a redemptive memory requires recalling not only the pain of the pas...

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

What we . . . refer to confidently as memory . . . is really a form of storytelling that goes on continually in the mind and often changes with the telling.

Sometimes you will never know the value of something, until it becomes a memory.

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...

Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.

I believe there are visions that come to us only in memory, in retrospect.

Nothing cures ingratitude as quickly as a good memory.

Everything we do proceeds from a decision of will, involves our intelligence and perception, leads to emotional reactions or experiences, is approved or disapproved by the conscience, and is registere...

Lord, our hearts are not large enough, our memory is not good enough, our wills are not strong enough: Take our hearts and enlarge them, Take our memories and give them quicker recall, Take our wi...

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...

As you get older, three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.

Steadfast, ever faithful God, you are always with us. Day in and day out, you provide for us, you show us your grace, you inspire awe within us as we experience your goodness. But almighty God, our me...