Quotes on Hospitality from Quotes for the Journey!

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Hospitality

Hospitality should have no
other nature than love.
Henrietta Mears



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



It is an excellent circumstance that hospitality grows best where it is most needed. In the thick of men 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



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



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 Irving



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



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

Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.       -Samuel Pepys



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



Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unaware.       -Paul



In hospitality, the chief thing is the good will.        -Greek proverb







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