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Thursday, March 16, 2023

Hospitality Quotes

Quotes About Hospitality

  • Africans believe in something that is difficult to render in English. We call it ubuntu, botho. It means the essence of being human. You know when it is there and when it is absent. It speaks about humaneness, gentleness, hospitality, putting yourself out on behalf of others, being vulnerable. It embraces compassion and toughness. It recognizes that my humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together. --Desmond Tutu
  • Hospitality exists when you believe that the other person is on your side. --Danny Meyer
  • Hospitality is a test for godliness because those who are selfish do not like strangers (especially needy ones) to intrude upon their private lives. They prefer their own friends who share their lifestyle. Only the humble have the necessary resources to give of themselves to those who could never give of themselves in return.
  • Hospitality is almost impossible to teach. It's all about hiring the right people. --Danny Meyer
  • Hospitality is one form of worship.
  • Hospitality means primarily the creation of free space where the stranger can enter and become a friend instead of an enemy. Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer them space where change can take place. It is not to bring men and women over to our side, but to offer freedom not disturbed by dividing lines. --Henri Nouwen
  • Hospitality means we take people into the space that is our lives and our minds and our hearts and our work and our efforts. Hospitality is the way we come out of ourselves.  It is the first step towards dismantling the barriers of the world.  Hospitality is the way we turn a prejudiced world around, one heart at a time. --Joan D. Chittister
  • Hospitality should have no other nature than love. --Henrietta Mears
  • In order to solve problems, information has to be shared; and not only information, but doubts, fears and questions. --John Harvey-Jones
  • No one of this nation ever begs, for the houses of all are common to all, and they consider liberality and hospitality amongst the first virtues. --Giraldus Cambrensis, Welsh Clergyman
  • The glory of the home is hospitality;
  • Those who practice hospitality entertain God himself.
  • When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul. --Max Beerbohm













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Acts 27:3 (MSG) The next day we put in at Sidon. Julius treated Paul most decently—let him get off the ship and enjoy the hospitality of his friends there.
1 Timothy 3:2 - Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,
Luke 10:7 Don’t move around from home to home. Stay in one place, eating and drinking what they provide. Don’t hesitate to accept hospitality, because those who work deserve their pay.
Hebrews 13:2 Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
Romans 12:13 (ESV)  Contribute to the needs of the saints and seek to show hospitality.
1 Timothy 5:10 (ESV)  and having a reputation for good works: if she has brought up children, has shown hospitality, has washed the feet of the saints, has cared for the afflicted, and has devoted herself to every good work.
Hebrews 13:2 (ESV)  Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
1 Peter 4:9 (ESV) Show hospitality to one another without grumbling.
Acts 28:7 - Now in the neighborhood of that place were lands belonging to the chief man of the island, named Publius, who received us and entertained us hospitably for three days.
Matthew 10:10 Don’t carry a traveler’s bag with a change of clothes and sandals or even a walking stick. Don’t hesitate to accept hospitality, because those who work deserve to be fed.
Matthew 25:38 Or a stranger and show you hospitality? Or naked and give you clothing?
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