Quotes about Hospitality

To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.

She even raised young geese in her large country kitchen and had three guest rooms, named Hope, Contentment, and Joy.

We should not cease to be hospitable to immigration, but we should cease to be careless as to the character of it.

Kindness is a passport that opens doors and fashions friends. It softens hearts and molds relationships that can last lifetimes.

Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.

Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.

The people in your life who don't need an invitation still like to get one.

A house from which nobody ever went away without feeling better in some way. A house in which there was always laughter.

Better a dinner of herbs where your chums are than a stalled ox in a lonely boardinghouse.

Italy will always have the best food.

We break bread with the hungry[78] and share our home with them[79] for the sake of Christ's love, which belongs to the hungry as much as it does to us. If the hungry do not come to faith, the guilt falls on those who denied them bread. To bring bread to the hungry is preparing the way for the coming of grace.

God cannot endure that unfestive, mirthless attitude of ours in which we eat our bread in sorrow, with pretentious, busy haste, or even with shame. Through our daily meals He is calling us to rejoice, to keep holiday in the midst of our working day.