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...

It’s likely that every day presents an opportunity for you to practice radical hospitality to someone with whom you cross paths. There is no shortage of people who could use the fit of a caring,...

the stranger’s room.” Not because these people thought they could trace something of someone they loved in the stranger who used it, not because the man or woman to whom they gave shelter reminded them...

I’d like to open a restaurant. Would you eat at a place called Filthy’s? The name would be better than the food, which in turn would be better than the service.

If a good system of agriculture, unrivaled manufacturing skill, a capacity to produce whatever can contribute to either convenience or luxury, schools established in every village for teaching reading, writing, and arithmetic, the general practice...

They talk about Southern hospitality, but Southern hospitality has nothing on this place,

How can the minister explain $42 million on travel and hospitality, while Coast Guard vessels were tied up at wharves across this country because they couldn’t afford fuel?

I asked for a small drink, but he didn’t ask me what cup size. What, will a small not fit in a large?

I once expected to spend seven years walking around the world on foot. I walked from Mexico to Panama where the road ended before an almost uninhabited swamp called the Choco Colombiano. Even today there...

I love like I’m thirsty. Can I offer you a tall glass of Sahara sand?

My hotel room has a great view. The view is right in front of the TV.

A hotel is more than bricks and blankets. A hotel is a welcoming atmosphere, and a place to engage in a business transaction with a prostitute.

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.

A hotel is a temporary aquarium for people. That’s why I travel with a fishing pole, and erectile dysfunction medicine.

I found the term ‘southern hospitality’ fits that area,

No thanks, I’ve already got a spot of tea on my shirt.

If you can be quiet, you’re more than welcome to stay in my House of Silence. Bring your own bubblegum ice cream.

Instead of practicing philoxenos, which means loving the stranger, we find many times that the church is xenophobic. We forget that Jesus, whom we claim to follow, was the ultimate lover of otherness in people....

How many people make that? Not that many. People working in the hospitality industry and in our stores – they may make $9 or $10 an hour. Not that many of them make that kind...

A soul of hospitality and a heart of humanity is a house of love, peace, freedom, liberty and justice.

Concierge at the Five-Star Hotel.” Concierge is just a fancy term that means something similar in Latin, I’m sure. My job will be to arrange activities for hotel guests for everything from opera tickets to...

You have this … amazing opportunity to reinvent hospitality.

Guttenberg didn’t write the Bible—he just printed it. Gideon didn’t write the Bible—he just placed it into every nightstand in every hotel. And Orafoura doesn’t appear in the Bible—though he may have disappeared into it.

A life of hospitality begins in worship, with a recognition of God’s grace and generosity. Hospitality is not first a duty and responsibility; it is first a response of love and gratitude for God’s love...

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.