#hospitality

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

— Vera Nazarian

#distant #familiar #foreign #home #hospitality

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, and it gladdens me profoundly to see it unfold without original sin, without expulsions and floods and disobedience and illness. When I am a good guest, I have returned to Eden, where everything I need is provided for me, including companionship and a benevolent deity at my shoulder serving me and protecting me. The concept of paradise may be backward-looking but the concept of heaven is anticipatory. Perhaps this is what heaven will be like? A great table of oak worn smooth with age and candle wax; a dimly lit room, a quartet of angels playing Sarah Vaughan in the corner; this blissful throb of quiet, intelligent conversation; bubbling pots and aromatic stews that no one seems to have worked to prepare; and you - you have nothing to worry about, not now, not here, not for all eternity. Leave it all behind at the threshold, forget everything, for here in heaven, you are my guest. ↗

— Jesse Browner

#hospitality #paradise #age

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 to Mers. "Why didn't you let them in?" asked Germain angrily. "People must be very suspicious in this part of the world, if they won't open the front door to a neighbor." "Well, naturally!" replied the maid. "In a house as rich as this, you have to keep a close watch on things. While the master's away I'm responsible for everything, and I can't just open the door to anyone at all." "That's a mean way to live," said Germain; "I'd rather be poor than live in fear like that. Good-bye to you, miss, and good-bye to this horrible country of yours! ↗

— George Sand

#decency #hospitality #kindness #sense #trust

It is easier to have faith that God will support each House of Hospitality and Farming Commune and supply our needs in the way of food and money to pay bills, than it is to keep a strong, hearty, living faith in each individual around us - to see Christ in him. ↗

— Dorothy Day

#bills #christ #commune #each #easier

I have to say obviously it is not illegal for people to go to dinner and to socialise and take hospitality off members of the media organisations, but it was the scale and the timing and the frequency of contact that I thought was shocking. ↗

— Tom A. Watson

#dinner #frequency #go #hospitality #i

When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

#becomes #hospitality #loses #soul #very

No one of this nation ever begs, for the houses of all are common to all; and they consider liberality and hospitality amongst the first virtues. ↗

— Giraldus Cambrensis

#begs #common #consider #ever #first

The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#hermit #hospitality #intercourse #mind #place

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! ↗

— Miley Cyrus

#above #approve #be nice #better #comes

Israel has, enjoys bipartisan support - both Democrats and Republicans - and we extend bipartisan hospitality to both Democrats and Republicans. ↗

— Benjamin Netanyahu

#both #democrats #enjoys #extend #hospitality