20 quotes found
“In the cherry blossom's shadethere's no such thingas a stranger.”
“The danger of refusing to reflect upon the psychological dynamics of faith and belief is that what we feel to be self evidently true, for psychological reasons, might be, upon inspection, highly qu...”
“In short, the Lord's Supper was the realization of new social and political arrangements, the embodiment of the social leveling seen in Jesus' ministry, most profoundly in his acts of table fellows...”
“A soul of hospitality and a heart of humanity is a house of love, peace, freedom, liberty and justice.”
“After three days men grow weary, of a wench, a guest, and weather rainy.”
“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 otherne...”
“Jesus modeled true leadership as both personal and hospitable.”
“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 is not o...”
“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 really l...”
“Oh!" said Moominmamma with a start, "I believe those were mice disappearing into the cellar. Sniff, run down with a little milk for them." Then she caught sight of the suitcase which stood by the s...”
“Let me live in my house by the side of the road And be a friend to man.”
“For 't is always fair weather When good fellows get together With a stein on the table and a good song ringing clear.”
“I was an hungered and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty and ye gave me drink. I was a stranger and ye took me in.”
“For I who hold sage Homer's rule the best Welcome the coming speed the going guest.”
“Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of wayfaring men!”
