If I have enjoyed the hospitality of the Host of this universe, Who daily spreads a table in my sight, surely I cannot do less than acknowledge my dependence.

Ross frames human life as continual “hospitality” received from God, imagined as the Host of the universe who provides daily sustenance (“spreads a table in my sight,” echoing Psalm 23). The logic is ethical as well as devotional: if one lives by gifts one did not create—life, food, beauty, providential care—then gratitude is not optional but a fitting acknowledgment of dependence. The quote thus argues against self-sufficiency as a moral posture, urging humility and thanksgiving as the proper response to existence itself. It also implies that gratitude should be habitual (“daily”), not reserved for extraordinary deliverances.