Quotes about Hospitality
When we look at teaching in terms of hospitality, we can say that the teacher is called upon to create for his students a free and fearless space where mental and emotional development can take place.
— Henri Nouwen
This invitation to a meal is an invitation to intimacy with God.
— Henri Nouwen
But still — that is our vocation: to convert the hostis into a hospes, the enemy into a guest and to create the free and fearless space where brotherhood and sisterhood can be formed and fully experienced.
— Henri Nouwen
It is remarkable that, notwithstanding the universal favor with which the New Testament is outwardly received, and even the bigotry with which it is defended, there is no hospitality shown to, there is no appreciation of, the order of truth with which it deals.
— Henry David Thoreau
For, as when the red-cheeked, dancing girls, April and May, trip home to the wintry, misanthropic woods; even the barest, ruggedest, most thunder-cloven old oak will at least send forth some few green sprouts to welcome such glad-hearted visitants.
— Herman Melville
God wants people to meet Him when they meet us.
— Bill Johnson
God wants people to meet Him when they meet us.
— Bill Johnson
We want to make it clear that Indiana's open for business. We want to make it clear that Hoosier hospitality is not a slogan, it's our way of life. It's the reason why people come here from around the world and they come back again and again. Because Hoosiers are the kindest, most generous, most decent people in the world.
— Mike Pence
Anybody that's been in Indiana for five minutes knows that Hoosier hospitality is not a slogan, it's a reality.
— Mike Pence
But there was no room at the inn; the inn is the gathering place of public opinion; so often public opinion locks its doors to the King.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
But there was no room at the inn; the inn is the gathering place of public opinion; so often public opinion locks its doors to the King.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.
— Samuel Johnson