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Do not neglect to show hospitality to
strangers,
for thereby some
have entertained angels unaware.
Paul |
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Hospitality:
a little fire, a little food, and an immense quiet.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Hospitality
is always an act that benefits the host even more than
the guest. The concept of hospitality arose in ancient times
when
the reciprocity was easier to see: in nomadic cultures, the
food
and shelter one gave to a stranger yesterday is the food and
shelter
one hopes to receive from a stranger tomorrow. By offering
hospitality,
one participates in the endless reweaving of a social fabric on
which
all can depend--thus the gift of sustenance for the guest becomes
a
gift of hope for the host.
Parker J. Palmer
The Courage to Teach
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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
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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 Chittister
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In
hospitality, the chief thing is the good will.
Greek
proverb
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Hospitality
is making your guests feel at home,
even though you wish they
were.
Proverb |
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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
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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 or her ease.
Washington
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Like
many other virtues, hospitality is practiced in its
perfection by the poor. If the rich did their share,
how would the woes of this world be lightened!
C.M.
Kirkland
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It
is an excellent circumstance that hospitality grows best
where it is most needed. In the thick of people it dwindles
and disappears, life fruit in the thick of a wood; but where
people are planted sparely it blossoms and matures, like
apples on a standard or an espalier. It flourishes
where the inn and lodging-house cannot exist.
Hugh
Miller
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Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare
bed for my friends.
Samuel Pepys
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There
is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the
wish to scatter joy and not pain around us. 'Tis good to
give a
stranger a meal, or a night's lodging. 'Tis better to be
hospitable to
one's
good meaning and thought, and give courage to a companion.
We must be
as courteous to a person as we are to a picture, which
we are
willing
to give the advantage of a good light.
Ralph
Waldo Emerson
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Hospitality should have no other nature than
love.
Henrietta Mears
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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 J.M. Nouwen
Reaching Out
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True
hospitality is marked by an open response to the dignity of each
and every person. Henri Nouwen has described it as receiving the
stranger on his or her own terms, and asserts that it can be
offered only by
those who "have found the center of their lives in their own
hearts."
Kathleen Norris
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Hospitality
is the practice of God's welcome by reaching
across difference to
participate in God's actions
bringing justice and healing to our
world in crisis.
Letty M. Russell |
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Hospitality
invites to prayer before it checks credentials,
welcomes to the table before administering the entrance exam.
Patrick
Henry |
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There is no
hospitality like understanding.
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If
it were not for guests all houses would be graves.
Khalil Gibran
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Hospitality has never been
about having House Beautiful with perfectly
coordinated accessories and the most up-to-date equipment, nor is
it
dependent upon having large chunks of leisure time and a big
entertainment
budget to spend, nor does it require special training in the
culinary arts
or event planning. Hospitality is about a heart for service,
the creativity
to stretch whatever we do have available, and the energy to give
the time
necessary to add a flourish to the ordinary events of life.
Dorothy Kelley Patterson |
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There
is a huge difference between "entertaining" and offering
hospitality.
Entertaining puts the emphasis on you and how you can impress
others.
Offering hospitality puts the emphasis on others and strives to
meet their
physical and spiritual needs so that they feel refreshed,
not impressed, when they leave your home.
Karen Ehman |
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Being
“hospitable” does not mean you need to have an open door
policy
to anyone who wants to drop in at any time they want to or need to
drop
in. That being said, being hospitable does mean
being available for
emergencies and having some flexibility. Some folks are just
plain needy
and will take up all of your time if you let them; others would
never drop
by unannounced unless it was urgent. Use some wisdom to know
when
to bend, and when to stand firm and graciously say, “I’m
sorry,
I cannot give time to that today.”
Keri Mae
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