How To Improve Your Memory

"This dulness of memory is a common spiritual disease among believers.  It prevails as widely now as it did in the days of the first disciples.  It is one among many proofs of our fallen and corrupt condition.  Even after men have been renewed by the Holy Ghost, their readiness to forget the promises and precepts of the Gospel is continually bringing them into trouble.  They hear many things which they ought to store up in their hearts, but seem to forget as fast as they hear.  And then, perhaps after many days, affliction brings them up before their recollection, and at once it flashes across their minds that they heard them long ago!  They find that they had heard, but heard in vain.


The true cure for a dull memory in religion, is to get deeper love toward Christ, and affections more thoroughly set on things above.  We do not readily forget the things we love, and the objects which we keep continually under our eyes.  The names of our parents and children are always remembered.  The face of the husband or wife we love is graven on the tablets of our hearts.  The more our affections are engaged in Christ's service, the more easy shall we find it to remember Christ's words."
~J.C. Ryle
Expository Thoughts on the Gospels
Vol. 2