Quotes about Hospitality

Have we harvested with the margins in mind? Do we intentionally serve people on the edge?

The Bible teaches that our homes should be hospitable and that those who come in and out of our homes should sense the presence of Christ.

The happiest Christian homes I know are those given to hospitality, where neighbors feel at home, where young people are welcome, where the elderly are respected, where children are loved.

Cut out some of your "important social engagements," and make your home the center of your social life. God will honor you, and your children will grow up to call you "blessed" [Proverbs 31:28].

Christmas is, for those who wish to follow the way of Jesus, an invitation to accept into our comfortable and safe lives those who come to us from far away, who seem ragged, marginal, in transition.

She] personally tended the unhappy and impoverished victims of hunger and disease. I have often seen her washing wounds which others — even men — could hardly bear to look at ... She founded a hospital and gathered there the sufferers from the streets, and gave them all the attention of a nurse... How often she carried home, on her shoulders, the dirty and poor who were plagued with epilepsy! How she washed the pus from sores which others could not even behold.

Love is a gracious host to his guests though to the unbidden his house is a mirage and a mockery.

It's rude to run off a guest. It's rude to wear out your welcome.

It's rude to run off a guest. It's rude to wear out your welcome.

If Jesus were living in our culture, he would probably hang out in coffeehouses.

Nowhere in the New Testament is the privileged position of turkeys, nobodies, and marginal people on the fringes of society disclosed more dramatically than in Jesus' ministry of meal sharing. In modern times it is scarcely possible to appreciate the scandal Jesus caused by His table fellowship with sinners.

The kingdom is not an exclusive, well-trimmed suburb with snobbish rules about who can live there.