“Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!”

Source: The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor

Source: The Fire Next Time

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 115.

Source: My Name Is Memory

Source: Erak's Ransom

Lectures XIV and XV, "The Value of Saintliness"
1900s, The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902)
Context: The gods we stand by are the gods we need and can use, the gods whose demands on us are reinforcements of our demands on ourselves and on one another. What I then propose to do is, briefly stated, to test saintliness by common sense, to use human standards to help us decide how far the religious life commends itself as an ideal kind of human activity. … It is but the elimination of the humanly unfit, and the survival of the humanly fittest, applied to religious beliefs; and if we look at history candidly and without prejudice, we have to admit that no religion has ever in the long run established or proved itself in any other way. Religions have approved themselves; they have ministered to sundry vital needs which they found reigning. When they violated other needs too strongly, or when other faiths came which served the same needs better, the first religions were supplanted.

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First God, in Scene 1a, p. 38
The Good Person of Sezuan (1943)