Genuine Hospitality
Above all things, let your love for one another be very earnest, for love throws a veil over countless sins. Never grudge hospitality to one another.
—Peter.
Evils That Love Would Prevent
The mutual attacks of state on state; the mutual usurpations of family on family; the mutual robberies of man on man; the want of kindness on the part of the sovereign and of loyalty on the part of the minister; the want of tenderness and filial duty between father and son—these, and such as these, are the things injurious to the empire. All this has arisen from want of mutual love. If but that one virtue could be made universal, the princes loving one another would have no battlefields; the chiefs of families would attempt no usurpations; men would commit no robberies; rulers and ministers would be gracious and loyal; fathers and sons would be kind and filial; brothers would be harmonious and easily reconciled. Men in general loving one another, the strong would not make prey of the weak; the many would not plunder the few; the rich would not insult the poor; the noble would not be insolent to the mean; and the deceitful would not impose upon the simple.
—Mo Ti.
The Road To Happiness
I wonder why it is that we are not kinder than we are! How much the world needs it. How easily it is done. How spontaneously it acts. How infallibly it is remembered. How super-abundantly it pays itself back—for there is no debtor in the world so honorable as love.
There is no happiness in having and getting, but only in giving. Half the world is on the wrong scent in the pursuit of happiness.
—Henry Drummond.
Alternate Reading: I Corinthians 12:1-31.