St. Augustine found that the best model for developing the integrating experience of past, present, and future was the audible praying of a Psalm. The Psalmists exercise their and our memories vigorously. Prayer is an act of memory. If we confine ourselves to one-generational knowledge here, or even worse, to our own conversion-experience knowledge, we are impoverished beyond reason.
-- Eugene Peterson
Memory is the scribe of the soul.
-- Aristotle
These seem like good book-ends to me.
