Quotes about Seating

But when you are invited, go and sit in the last place, so that your host will come and tell you, ‘Friend, move up to a better place.’ Then you will be honored in front of everyone at the table with you.

The church, for far too long, has been more interested in its seating capacity than in its sending capacity.

Then the host who invited both of you will come and tell you, ‘Give this man your seat.’ And in humiliation, you will have to take the last place.

Then the maiden climbed into a tree, and, seating herself in the branches, began to knit.

Earthly seating creates reactionary prayers. If we sit there long enough, we will wind up with a big devil and a little God.

When Jesus noticed how the guests chose the places of honor, He told them a parable:

“When you are invited to a wedding banquet, do not sit in the place of honor, in case someone more distinguished than you has been invited.

I've never walked into a restaurant, asked for a table and been told, 'We're full.'