We don’t practice hospitality to point other people to ourselves, our church, or even our beliefs. We practice hospitality to point people toward the ultimate welcome that God gives every person through Christ.

His abhorrence and fear of alcohol did not extend to his power as host. He kept a huge cupboard of drinks in the station house and loved to serve large measures to visiting relatives–especially those...

We’d especially like to see students from the hospitality program.

In the interview I was told that I’d be replacing Robert, who was a robot. The company thought they could save some money and automate the front desk position, because they didn’t have to pay...

We show hospitality to strangers not merely because they need it, but because we need it, too. The stranger at the door is the living symbol and memory that we are all strangers here. This...

Service is a promise that cannot be seen, touched, or felt through any of our external senses.

Jesus shows us that there’s never a change of mind unless there’s a change of heart, and there will never be a change of heart without a conversation between trusted friends.Halter, Hugh (2014-02-01). Flesh: Bringing...

Give thanks to the earth for the hospitality and generosityShow gratitude for life, light and every little beauty.

Have you heard,” he said “that many of our people believe if you know five colloquial expressions in their tribal language, they must always provide you with nourishment and shelter? But-” He paused as though...

Jesus modeled true leadership as both personal and hospitable.

Working in a hotel is the anti-coffee shop, because instead of it being a place that’ll wake you up, it’s a place to sleep. And it’s a place to have sex, which is something Starbucks...

A couple you do not recognize – visitors, strangers – come to the door. How are you to view these people and what is your responsibility towards them? … To assume that these visitors are...

Ah, this is true. And this is false. What’s the best to you may be worst to someone else. Since every room here is completely different, each room is number one to someone, even if...

In the cherry blossom’s shadethere’s no such thingas a stranger.

I wonder if rooms in an insane asylum have Do Not Disturb signs for the doors. I should hope not, because knock or no knock, every occupant in those rooms is already disturbed.

now the question we must ask is…what kind of _practices_ [theology] motivates, what kind of _gaze_ onto others, the guest, the new arrivant, it offers us to carry with us; _not_ who my neighbors are...

Every night we stopped in a cabin where wood had been stacked, matches left, and canned goods laid out for the chance traveler. All the unknown host received in return was a scribbled note giving...

The maid told him that a girl and a child had come looking for him, but since she didn’t know them, she hadn’t cared to ask them in, and had told them to go on...

What is ordinary to you maybe a desert of woeful newness to another.

Two become one when two are in love—or when the waitress asks about our dinner bill. I’ll pay next time, I promise.

A brand-new event coming in at $2.5 million — we’re pretty excited. The hospitality has been great, and the course was in great shape as well. I hope this is a long-term deal. I think...

To listen is very hard, because it asks of us so much interior stability that we no longer need to prove ourselves by speeches, arguments, statements, or declarations. True listeners no longer have an inner...

Religion is about hospitality and responsibility, and about neighbor/enemy-love-as-self-love in a Christian term that requires one to turn a new _gaze_ onto others––what I call a _cosmopolitan gaze_.

After three days men grow weary, of a wench, a guest, and weather rainy.

Her vagina feels like home, while her sister’s vagina feels like a hotel room. I should ask for a late checkout.

There is great value in being able to say “yes” when people ask if there is anything they can do. By letting people pick herbs or slice bread instead of bringing a salad, you make...

I make love like the 13th floor is the 14th floor of a hotel. I give it that little extra that takes it to a whole new level.

The ornaments of your home are the people who smile upon entering time and time again.

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...

There is a rational part of my brain and it says, Don’t zap them, Warren. Ask questions first, find out who they are and why they’re here, on your doorstep, lurking, banging. Find out their...

Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it.

All true friendliness begins with fire and food and drink and the recognition of rain or frost. …Each human soul has in a sense to enact for itself the gigantic humility of the Incarnation. Every...

There is no hospitality like understanding.

the bleakest situations bring out the hospitality in all of us, but it’s during the harshest we find out how strong we really are.

There is nothing that makes me happier than sitting around the dinner table and talking until the candles are burned down.

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...

I’ve always admired people who give accurate directions, and the tribe is small.

Soak blanket in gravy and make a delicious brick wrap. Serve in All Gravy Room at the Mandrake Hotel.

I have a mansion of an imagination, and I cordially invite you to come sleep in my shed.

Whenever you go on a trip to visit foreign lands or distant places, remember that they are all someone’s home and backyard.

In Paris the cashiers sit rather than stand. They run your goods over a scanner, tally up the price, and then ask you for exact change. The story they give is that there aren’t enough...

When I am a good host, I can order the world precisely as I believe it ought to be. It is a world that I have created in my mind and in my own image,...

Help yourself to a bottle of wine. They’re all empty.

There are a lot of empty seats that are about to be filled with corporatists surrounded by corporate hospitality suites funded by $13 million of taxpayers money. That’s a pretty sickly witches’ brew for a...

In Ireland, you go to someone’s house, and she asks you if you want a cup of tea. You say no, thank you, you’re really just fine. She asks if you’re sure. You say of...

At the Peabody Hotel, you’ll find two things: a pea and a body. Was it murder by starvation? Come spend the night and decide for yourself.

I believe that hospitality is central to the heart and ministry of Jesus and that to the extent we fail to extend this hospitality to gay people, the church will fail to walk in the...

Hotel hallways should have conveyer belts for floors, so I can feel like a grocery item on vacation. I guess I’m just a romantic.

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 own terms, and asserts that it can be...

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...