"True hospitality is marked by an open response……" — Kathleen Norris
"True hospitality is marked by an open response to the dignity of each and every person. Henri Nouwen has described it as receiving the stranger on his own terms, and asserts that it can be offered only by those who 'have found the center of their lives in their own hearts'."
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Kathleen Norris
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31 Quotes by Kathleen Norris
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Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future.
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This is a God who is not identified with the help of a dictionary but through a relationship.
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I was taught that I had to 'master' subjects. But who can 'master' beauty, or peace, or joy?
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Only Christ could have brought us all together, in this place, doing such absurd but necessary things.
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