Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future
We cannot embrace His cross, and yet refuse our own. We cannot raise the cup of His remembrance to our lips, without a secret pledge to Him, to one another, to the great company of the faithful in every age that we, too, hold ourselves at God's disposal, that we will ask nothing on our own account, that we will pass simply into the Divine hand to take us whither it will.
Constant remembrance of the Almighty will bring you everlasting happiness and peace
Forgetfulness of your real nature is true death; remembrance of it is rebirth.
Lift up your hearts to Him, sometimes even at your meals, and when you are in company; the least little remembrance will always be acceptable to Him. You need not cry very loud; He is nearer to us than we are aware.
Seeking to forget makes exile all the longer; the secret of redemption lies in remembrance.
By being fictions and, at the same moment, returning their subjects to us with a compelling fidelity, both photographs and poems work with the same surprise. . . both strike us as if they were simultaneously remembrances and revelations.
No sorrow is deeper than the remembrance of happiness when in misery.
It takes a moment to make memories and a lifetime to forget them.
Nothing sorts out memories from ordinary moments. It is only later that they claim remembrance, when they show their scars.
Ghosts are a metaphor for memory and remembrance and metaphorically connect our world to the world we cannot know about.
There's no use in weeping, Though we are condemned to part: There's such a thing as keeping, A remembrance in one's heart.
The powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry. [Lat. , Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est. ]
My dear brother, we must not mind a little suffering for Christs sake. When I am getting through a hedge, if my head and shoulders are safely through, I can bear the pricking of my legs. Let us rejoice in the remembrance that our holy Head has surmounted all His suffering and triumphed over death. Let us follow Him patiently; we shall soon be partakers of His victory
There is no remembrance which time does not obliterate, nor pain which death does not terminate.
Khashyah (fear) is to fear Allah until His fear comes between you and your sins - that is true khashyah. And Dhikr (remembrance) is to obey Allah so whoever obeys Him has indeed remembered Him, and whoever does not obey Him is not a dhakir - even if he makes abundant tasbih (glorification) and recites much of Qur'an.
Forgetfulness leads to exile while remembrance is the secret of redemption.
A few years make such havoc in human generations that we soon see ourselves deprived of those with whom we entered the world, and whom the participation of pleasures or fatigues had endeared to our remembrance.
I've given my life to the principle and the ideal of memory, and remembrance.
If we choose to exercise faith, the Holy Ghost will bring God's kindnesses to our remembrance.