Quotes About Hospitality

How are you!" Katerina came around her counter to hug me. I stiffened in her embrace. "Are you okay? I worried about you, you know." "About me?" "Of course! Come in the back, I make a coffee." She ushered me toward the rear of the food mall more quickly than necessary, I thought.

Sharing meals together forced us to figure out how to be the body of Christ reconciled across racial, ethnic, and class lines.

if you want to create the kingdom potluck at the margins, you must relentlessly pursue the sort of community that makes it possible for the marginalized to "bring a plate.

And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you . . ." —Leviticus 19:33-34

In May 2014, a gay male couple paying their check after a nice dinner at Big Earl's Bait House in Pittsburgh, Texas, were ordered not to come back. "We don't serve fags here," the cashier, a daughter of the owner, told the men to their faces. "Here at Big Earl's we like for men to act like men and for ladies to act like ladies, so we want you to never return.

I didn't mean to interupt you if you were looking for your friends Miss--' 'Callihan,' but you can call my Jasmine. Or Jas.' Or Snookums. Honeybunch. Hotsie Totsie Cowgirl. My Little-- 'It's nice to meet you Jasmine, I'm Jack.

Her preaching theme, indeed, her modus operandi, might have been Include all!—she was always dragging some person she'd just met to our lunches and meetings and events—but how abruptly and thoroughly she'd excluded me.

Never give a party if you will be the most interesting person there.

If your children spend most of their time in other people's houses, you're lucky; if they all congregate at your house, you're blessed.

There's nothing wrong with most men's egos that the kowtowing of a headwaiter can't cure.

As Christians, we're not salespeople; we're just introducing mutual friends.

I'm not in the hotel business.

Second chancers must find the party. We must be the party. We must create opportunities to celebrate and become the proverbial hostess with the mostest.

I'm a Muslim, but I think Jesus would have a drink with me. He would be cool. He would talk to me.

What says more about who you are in Christ? How loudly you say AMEN in the service or how well you treat strangers in the foyer?

You'll never scare anyone into heaven... Telling someone who is suffering deeply that he's going to suffer more is probably a waste of breath. Its like warning someone who is already starving that they're about to get really hungry. But tell him of the restaurant that serves heaping meals to all who come no matter where they're from or what they look like & he's more likely to listen.

I've got high standards when it comes to boys. As my dad says, all girls should! I'm from the South - Tennessee, to be exact - and down there, we're all about southern hospitality. I know that if I like a guy, he better be nice, and above all, my dad has to approve of him!

Sunja and Yangjin were able to cook the sweets and handle the customers without him. It was never that busy then. It was a late fall afternoon, when business was exceedingly slow and the market women were busy talking with each other since there were so few customers;

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Boys let your parents pay for dinner when you all go out.

If you can't handle providing all the courses for your dinner party, you can't handle the hosting duties of a dinner party.

When they arrived, we all sat around my small apartment, ate delicious Indian food, and talked and talked for hours. I was surprised by how calming it was to be around people who looked like me and who reminded me of where I was from.

the heaven to which Jesus points is the spaciousness within ourselves—one that makes room for those who threaten us, for those who are different, even for those who have betrayed us.

When you live alone people are always thinking they can stay with you, when the opposite is true: who they should stay with is a person whose situation is already messed up by other people and so one more won't matter.