Hospitality Quotes

• Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer them space where change can take place.

  Henri Nouwen

  Space, People, Offers

  Henri Nouwen (2013). “Reaching Out”, p.71, Image

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

  Washington Irving

  Christmas, Thank You, Heart

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• True hospitality consists of giving the best of yourself to your guests.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Giving, Guests

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1962). “Book of common sense etiquette”

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• Do what you do so well that they will want to see it again and bring their friends.

  Walt Disney

  Inspirational, Friends, Loyalty

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• The word hospitality in the New Testament comes from two Greek words. The first word means love and the second word means strangers. Its a word that means love of strangers.

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss

  Mean, Two, Greek

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• 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

  Heart, Mean, Space

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• There is an emanation from the heart in genuine hospitality which cannot be described, but is immediately felt and puts the stranger at once at his ease.

  Washington Irving

  Thank You, Heart, Ease

  Washington Irving (1835). “The complete works of Washington Irving in one volume with a memoir of the author”, p.288

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• 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

  Believe, Mean, Compassion

  Desmond Tutu, Naomi Tutu (1989). “The words of Desmond Tutu”, Newmarket Pr

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• Hospitality should have no other nature than love.

  Henrietta Mears

  Should Have, Should

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• True Hospitality is welcoming the stranger on her own terms. This kind of hospitality can only be offered by those who've found the center of their lives in their own hearts.

  Henri Nouwen

  Home, Heart, Welcome

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• There is no hospitality like understanding.

  Vanna Bonta

  Understanding

  "Flight: A Quantum Fiction Novel". Book by Vanna Bonta, June 1995.

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• True hospitality is a delicate balance of warmth and form.

  Sheila Ostrander

  Balance, Form, Delicate

  Sheila Ostrander (1968). “Etiquette for today”

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• 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

  Mean, Men, Space

  Henri Nouwen (2013). “Reaching Out”, p.71, Image

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• If it were not for guests all houses would be graves.

  Khalil Gibran

  House, Would Be, Guests

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• Culture is simply the hospitality of the intellect. Your mind is open to new ideas and larger views; when they enter, you know how to receive them, and to entertain, to be entertained, and take what they have to offer without allowing them to dominate you.

  Tom Kettle

  Views, Ideas, Mind

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  A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Museums, Religion, Church

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• Let not the emphasis of hospitality lie in bed and board; but let truth and love and honor and courtesy flow in all thy deeds.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thank You, Lying, Honor

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• Hospitality is simply love on the loose.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Simply Love

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• Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.

  Vernon Howard

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

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• Dreams are guests who ensoul our lives if we have hospitality for them.

  Jeannine Parvati Baker

  Dream, Guests, Our Lives

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• Hospitality invites to prayer before it checks credentials, welcomes to the table before administering the entrance exam.

  Patrick Henry

  Prayer, Tables, Exam

  Patrick Henry (2000). “The Ironic Christian's Companion: Finding the Marks of God's Grace in the World”, p.89, Penguin

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• In order to solve problems, information has to be shared; and not only information, but doubts, fears and questions.

  John Harvey-Jones

  Leadership, Communication, Order

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• HOSPITALITY, n. The virtue which induces us to feed and lodge certain persons who are not in need of food and lodging.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Food, Cooking, Needs

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.14, University of Georgia Press

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• When friends are at your hearthside met, Sweet courtesy has done its most If you have made each guest forget That he himself is not the host.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Thank You, Sweet, Done

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1907). “The writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich”

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• There are hermit souls that live withdrawn In the place of their self-content; There are souls like stars that dwell apart, In a fellowless firmament; There are pioneer souls that blaze their paths Where highways never ran,-- But let me live by the side of the road, And be a friend to man.

  Sam Walter Foss

  Stars, Men, Self

  "The House by the Side of the Road" l. 7 (1898)

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