Quotes about Hospitality

All the episodes from my stories and novels are not about food only, but about meals. You can eat food by yourself. A meal, according to my understanding anyhow, is a communal event, bringing together family members, neighbors, even strangers. At its most ordinary, it involves hospitality, giving, receiving, and gratitude.

A lamplit table spread Old hospitality Of cheese and wine and bread. - 1993 V Remembering Evia

Oh Lord, make us able To eat all that's on this table, And if there's some we haven't got Bring it to us while it's hot

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.

For Jesus the home is not what defines the table; the table is what defines the home.

Hospitality in the North is as much a part of life as eating and sleeping. They might not have much, but whatever they have is yours.

Feel fee to be a usin' anythin' in the house, an' if there be anythin' thet ya be needin', make a list. I go to town most saturdays fer supplies, an' I can be a pickin' it up then. When ya feel more yerself like, ya might want to come along an' do yer own choosin'.

I like having family and friends around me. Our house is always overflowing with guests.

Better than sweet tea on a veranda. I want to live at Belmont!

Shall we refuse to the unhappy fugitives from distress that hospitality which the savages of the wilderness extended to our fathers arriving in this land? Shall oppressed humanity find no asylum on this globe?

Into this world, this demented inn in which there is absolutely no room for him at all, Christ comes uninvited.

Not all works are alike. For Scripture says that Abraham was hospitable and God was with him. Elias loved solitary prayer, and God was with him. And David was humble, and God was with him. Therefore, whatever you see your soul to desire according to God, do that thing, and you shall keep your heart safe.