memory on Forgetfulness

Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders.

G.K. Chesterton’s mind was so preoccupied that he frequently forgot to keep appointments. He relied on his wife in all practical matters. Once on a lecture tour he sent her the following telegram: “Am...

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...

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...

Pastor: Oh Lord our God, we have forgotten who you are and what you have done for us. Your great and miraculous works for us are lost in the recesses of our minds, and we could not care less about you...

In A Forgiving God in an Unforgiving World , Ron Lee Davis shares a powerful story of forgiveness about a priest from the Philippines. The clergyman had carried the weight of one particular sin that ...

One of humanity’s problems is forgetfulness. Forgetfulness can happen at multiple levels, from a simple problem of recall to a posture of hard-heartedness and disobedience toward the command-giver. Wh...

Lent 2024: Do This in Remembrance Look to the Cross AIM commentary Ancient lens What's the historical context? What Have You Done for Me Lately? If only the people of God in the pages...

Ancient lens What's the historical context? What Have You Done for Me Lately? If only the people of God in the pages of the Old Testament were unique. We could then comfortably read their for...

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

Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.

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

We do not remember days, we remember moments.

Nothing cures ingratitude as quickly as a good memory.

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

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

Without the binding force of memory, experience would be splintered into as many fragments as there are moments in life. Without the mental time travel provided by memory, we would have no awareness o...

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

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

Memory is more indelible than ink.

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...

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

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

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

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

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

“I remember it like it was yesterday. Of course, I don’t really remember yesterday all that well.”

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

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

Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy.