Degenerates Quote by Francis Atterbury Download Open image “Hospitality sometimes degenerates into profuseness, and ends in madness and folly.” — Francis Atterbury ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Degenerates Ends Folly Hospitality Madness Sometimes
“Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer them space where change can take place. It is not to bring men and women… — Henri J.M. Nouwen Copy Share Image
Hospitality is the key to new ideas, new friends, new possibilities. What we take into our lives changes us. Without new people and new… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
It is an excellent circumstance that hospitality grows best where it is most needed. — Hugh Miller Copy Share Image
“for the modern indignity of travel—the promiscuities and vulgarities, the station and the hotel, the gregarious patience, the struggle for a scrappy attention, the… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Profuseness is a cruel and crafty demon, that gradually involves her followers in dependence and debt; that is, fetters them with irons that enter… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A semi-civilized state of society, equally removed from the extremes of barbarity and of refinement, seems to be that particular meridian under which all… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I never would have thought of that word, "hospitality." I settle into the rhythm of my steps. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
You wake up one morning and there it is, sitting in an old plaid bathrobe in your kitchen, unpleasant and unshaved. You look at… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
HOSPITALITY, n. The virtue which induces us to feed and lodge certain persons who are not in need of food and lodging. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“Nature's Grand Hotel has its Season, like the others. As the guests one by one pack, pay, and depart, and the seats at the… — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
The practice of all ages and all countries (whether Christian or heathen, polite or barbarous) hath been ... to do honour to those who… — Francis Atterbury Copy Share Image
It’s attention to detail that makes the difference between average and stunning, — Francis Atterbury Copy Share Image
Those good men who take such pleasure in relieving the miserable for Christ's sake, would not have been less forward to minister onto Christ… — Francis Atterbury Copy Share Image
It is impossible to have a lively hope in another life, and yet be deeply immersed in the enjoyments of this. — Francis Atterbury Copy Share Image
The things of another world being distant, operate but faintly upon us: to remedy this inconvenience, we must frequently revolve their certainty and importance. — Francis Atterbury Copy Share Image
From mere success nothing can be concluded in favor of any nation upon whom it is bestowed. — Francis Atterbury Copy Share Image
A sturdy, hardened sinner shall advance to the utmost pitch of impiety, with less reluctance than he took the first step while his conscience… — Francis Atterbury Copy Share Image
A very prosperous people, flushed with great victories and successes, are seldom so pious, so humble, so just, or so provident as to perpetuate… — Francis Atterbury Copy Share Image
A good character when established should not be rested in as an end, but only employed as a means of doing still further good. — Francis Atterbury Copy Share Image
Few consider how much we are indebted to government, because few can represent how wretched mankind would be without it. — Francis Atterbury Copy Share Image
Should we grieve over a little misplaced charity, when an all knowing, all wise Being showers down every day his benefits on the unthankful… — Francis Atterbury Copy Share Image
I find Nigeria very frustrating. I am not alone in this. There are many Nigerians abroad. As you know, the brain drain is just… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
People who reject transcendent authority can no longer persuade one another through rational arguments; everything is reduced to personal opinion. Debates about ideas thus… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
Christianity is not a law of bondage; and if it respect the hand of God which sometimes raises up tyrants, it draws up where… — Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire Copy Share Image
Charlotte slammed the paper down onto her desk with an exclamation of rage. “Aloysius Starkweather is the most stubborn, hypocritical, obstinate, degenerate—” She broke… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
A writer of story books! What kind of business in life-what mode of glorifying God, or being serviceable to mankind in his day and… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Our most pressing obligation is to do all in our power to obtain a revival that will result in a reformed, revitalized, purified church.… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Without the truth of the people, politics degenerates into mere spectacle and democracy declines, leaving demagoguery and cynicism to fill the void. — Jerry Brown Copy Share Image
We have either to progress or to degenerate. Our ancestors did great things in the past, but we have to grow into a fuller… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
By consequence I hold that no one ever did, or can do, anything for "society."... Comte invented the term altruism as an antonym for… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
Human beings are compelled to live within a lie, but they can be compelled to do so only because they are in fact capable… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Human nature being what it is, peace must inevitably be a relative condition. The essence of life is struggle and competition, and to that… — Javier Perez de Cuellar Copy Share Image
The degree and duration of the torment of these degenerate and anti-Christian people, should be no other than would be approved of by those… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
