318 Quotes About Hospitality

What could be the next steps for Amazon? Very likely, acquisitions. Expedia stock value dropped from over $150 to $110 in one year and, with 1:14 stock ratio (Amazon stock reached an astonishing $1,400), the acquisition would give Bezos the technology and know-how necessary to forcefully enter the travel landscape and compete with Google.

TripAdvisor may have found a new youth with the new feed-based design, but it is still worth half of what it used to be four years ago.

I have personally never bought this over-simplistic portrait of the industry, made of Rebel Alliance’s ewoks (small startups) fighting evil stormtroopers (established companies) with bare hands and rocks.

The ornaments of your home are the people who smile upon entering time and time again.

Anytime we worked a quilt, it was the thing to do to set out an empty chair. It was for the missing woman. The friend who might call, just as you'd sat to quilt, and who might bring a loaf of bread, lend a hand, do a square....There are times I miss the things I haven't done in my life. The things that Savannah is so good at doing, like taking up the empty chair.

When we image borders, we fail at imaging God.

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, welcoming person in their life. How awesome would it be if, in a time of need, the first thing people would say is, "I need a Christian!" If you expect to be that person, you'll be surprised at how often the opportunities come along for you to show love through radical hospitality.

I believe that hospitality is central to the heart and ministry of Jesus and that to the extent we fail to extend this hospitality to gay people, the church will fail to walk in the way of Jesus.

I need to learn to keep a quiet heart. To trust that if God has allowed an interruption in my day, it serves a purpose. To believe that the time to finish what work I thought needed to be done will be given. To accept that He is diverting me from my 'plan A' to His greater plan.