Quotes About Guests

If you're a sponsor, and you're doing business globally, to bring your guests to South Florida is pretty nice.

I have such respect for guest actors. They don't know all the characters as deeply as the regulars, and the cast isn't your family, so you have more at stake.

The same rationale applies to worship services. You want guests to have a positive experience. You want them to return. You desire for them to hear the gospel and to connect with believers. Ask an outsider, someone who has never been to your church, to attend a worship service. Ask them to observe and take notes if possible. Ask them to be honest and blunt. You want to learn. You want to improve.

Therein lies the problem with most churches. Churches perceive they are a friendly church because the members are friendly to one another. But they don't think about walking in the shoes of first-time guests. They don't look at their facilities, their parking, their website, or their friendliness from a guest perspective.

Even in incredible churches, very few members make the effort to greet and speak to someone already seated before the service begins. And, frankly, most church members don't ever go sit with guests. Guests are most often overlooked in the few minutes right before the worship services. No one speaks to them or sits with them.

Many guests really want to know, "What's next?" Is your church ready to answer them?

Good church signage is a statement of your church's hospitality. It means you are expecting guests; and it means you desire for guests to come to your church.

Seven out of ten guests will go to a church website as a determinative factor in where they will choose to visit.

Crashing could not be more inconsiderate to a host. It is a negative act because hosts likely have a particular plan for the event, an intention to move guests' attitudes in a certain direction.

On the whole, though, the guests at the party preferred the narrative about lies, fear, stupidity and racism. They had lost an argument, and they never lost arguments. They were confused and angry.

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it. —RALPH WALDO EMERSON

I like it when people actually come, but I love it when they go.

If you look at the media now all of the hosts of these other shows are interviewing themselves. The guests are a prop for the hosts on these cable networks. The guests for me are always the paramount.

Shouldn't the preacher who married the couple in the first place have to fly back in on a broomstick for that, too—that moving on? Shouldn't there be some ritual involving a long walk over hot coals while all the guests who'd been at the wedding watched, weeping, throwing stones at your bare

Guests bring good luck with them.

The people I want are very famous and very rich, and all I can offer them is a bit of exposure on TV and a bit of cash, so it's a miracle we get any guests at all. But we have been very lucky.

When the two terms and their definitions are combined into one term, translated philoxenia, we see that hospitality literally means "showing brotherly love to strangers.

Andy Stanley writes,"We must remove every possible obstacle from the path of the disinterested, suspicious, here-against-my-will, would-rather-be-somewhere-else, unchurched guests. The parking lot, hallways, auditorium, and stage must be obstacle-free zones."5 I

There was an air of indifference about them [the male guests], a calm produced by the gratification of every passion… that special brutality which comes from the habit of breaking down half-hearted resistances that keep one fit and tickle one's vanity—the handling of blooded horses, the pursuit of loose women.

Look. Folks. It's simple. If you have poor taste in decorating, don't go nuts in the entryway. Wait until your guests are inside before you spring something unusual on them.

thanks to the Afghan custom of pashtunwali, we are fed, given shelter, and treated as guests.

I really admire Airbnb as a pioneer of the sharing economy and for building community. They've found an elegant way to help hosts make more money and for guests to have authentic experiences. It brings those people together in a unique way.

If my life can inspire people, then a television show where guests talk about their challenges and what makes them unique would work.

Guests are people who come to your home to see you whine at the table, bark loudly, jump on women wearing pantyhose, and do other tricks which you wouldn't think of doing just for the family.