Ancestor worship Quote by Monique Truong Download Open image ““There is no forgiveness in ancestor worship, only retribution and eternal debt.”” — Monique Truong ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ancestor worship Forgiveness
“Forgiveness spares the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.” — Hannah More Copy Share Image
“Forgiveness allows the burdens that we carry to become the histories that we forget.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Forgiveness empties the past of its power to empty the present of its peace.” — L.R. Knost Copy Share Image
“Forgiveness is a matter of choice, not feelings. We demonstrate true forgiveness when we refuse to brood over the sins committed against us.” — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
“I didn’t know if the forgiveness itself was light, glittery stuff that showered down and absolved a person and set them free, or if,… — Jane Hamilton Copy Share Image
“The forgiveness of God is a gift to be received, not a reward to be merited.” — John R.W. Stott Copy Share Image
“Anh Minh believed that if he could save three minutes here, five minutes there, then one day he could tally them all up and… — Monique Truong Copy Share Image
“But that, I am afraid, was my mistake from the very beginning, the fatal flaw in my design. I thought that I could suffocate… — Monique Truong Copy Share Image
“When they are like this, I remember what the man on the bridge had told me: "The French are all right in France." What… — Monique Truong Copy Share Image
“I know you are in your best áo dài. You bought it when you were just eighteen. Gray is not a color for a… — Monique Truong Copy Share Image
“The irony of acquiring a foreign tongue is that I have amassed just enough cheap, serviceable words to fuel my desires and never, never… — Monique Truong Copy Share Image
“Language is a house with a host of doors, and I am too often uninvited and without the keys.” — Monique Truong Copy Share Image
“I am forced to admit that I am, to them, nothing but a series of destinations with no meaningful expanses in between. ” — Monique Truong Copy Share Image
“She laughed that sharp, quick laugh that smart girls all had, until they found out that the sound of brilliance flashing made boys nervous.… — Monique Truong Copy Share Image
“After a week's worth of failed fairy tales—stories that made my eyelids flutter open and not shut—my father tried telling me stories that belonged… — Monique Truong Copy Share Image
Alcohol, I had learned, was an eloquent if somewhat inaccurate interpreter. I had placed my trust that December night in glass after glass of… — Monique Truong Copy Share Image
“Obey,' like 'worship,' is a strong word. Her mother and father had told her so, and she believed them. They gave her life, they… — Monique Truong Copy Share Image
“As a father, he was generous. More or less. The "less" was because he never gave me what I wanted. He gave me only… — Monique Truong Copy Share Image
“In many parts of the world, ghosts are not considered to be a creation of local folklore, but a fact of life. In China… — Paul Roland Copy Share Image
Chinese culture in general is not very religious. Confucianism is more a code of ethics than a religion, and ancestor worship is a way… — David Henry Hwang Copy Share Image
People who can comfort the dead can also chase after them to hurt them further-a reverse ancestor worship. — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
“… about sixty thousand Indians and half-breeds… absolute savages… our inspectors occasionally visit… otherwise, no communication whatever with the civilized world… still preserve their… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Behind everything in London is something else, and, behind that, is something else still; and so on through the centuries, so that London as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We were not the victims of ancestor worship. We had the benefits of a fresh start. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We rarely quote nowadays to appeal to authority... though we quote sometimes to display our sapience and erudition. Some authors we quote against. Some… — Ihab Hassan Copy Share Image
“Orthodox devotions that do not let in the light of modern knowledge are no more than a form of ancestor worship.” — E.L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
“Papa always said that in the beginning men and women roamed the world together, equal in strength - like lions and tigers -" "And… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Building the future holds more attraction than ancestor worship, whichever ancestor we're talking about. — Douglas Alexander Copy Share Image
Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures, for example, does not really resonate with Americans who favor children, not grandparents. — Alan Dundes Copy Share Image
“I saw exactly one picture of Marx and one of Lenin in my whole stay, but it's been a long time since ideology had… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
