A compassionate open home is part of Christian responsibility, and should be practiced up to the level of capacity.
Francis A. SchaefferTags: hospitality
There is no place in God’s world where there are no people who will come and share a home as long as it is a real home.
Francis A. SchaefferTags: hospitality
Have you heard," he said "that many of our people believe if you know five colloquial expressions in their tribal language, they must always provide you with nourishment and shelter? But-" He paused as though to make sure she was paying attention. "But if you know fewer than five, they owe you not even a sip of water."
She nodded, understanding his point, but he pressed it.
"Learn those five phrases, Miss Sweeney," he said.
Tags: language culture hospitality
the bleakest situations bring out the hospitality in all of us, but it's during the harshest we find out how strong we really are.
Evan MeekinsTags: strength fantasy fiction young-adult hospitality young-adult-fiction bleakness fantasy-fiction harshness young-adult-fantasy
All true friendliness begins with fire and food and drink and the recognition of rain or frost. ...Each human soul has in a sense to enact for itself the gigantic humility of the Incarnation. Every man must descend into the flesh to meet mankind.
G.K. ChestertonTags: humility flesh hospitality incarnation friendliness meeting-people
I love like I’m thirsty. Can I offer you a tall glass of Sahara sand?
Dark Jar Tin ZooTags: humor kindness love food funny desert hospitality thirst drink thirsty sand sahara
Secular entertaining is a terrible bondage. Its source is human pride. Demanding perfection, fostering the urge to impress, it is a rigorous taskmaster which enslaves. In contrast, Scriptural hospitality is a freedom which liberates.
Karen Burton MainsTags: hospitality
Hospitality, however, seeks to minister. It says, "This home is not mine. It is truly a gift from my Master. I am His servant and I use it as He desires." Hospitality does not try to impress, but to serve.
Karen Burton MainsTags: hospitality
Hospitality is a prized virtue of monastic communities. Benedict's rule says: 'All guests who present themselves are to be welcomed as Christ, for he himself will say, "I was a stranger and you welcomed me."' Brother Alphonsus served as a doorkeeper in the seventeenth century at a Jesuit college in Majorca, Spain. Each time someone knocked at the door he would reply, 'I am coming, Lord!' This practice reminded him to treat each person with as much respect as if it were Jesus himself at the door.
Ken ShigematsuTags: hospitality jesuit welcoming benedict alphonsus monastic-communities
Keeping one's guests supplied with liquor is the first law of hospitality.
Margaret WayTags: hospitality liquor guests
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