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Every family should have a room where Christ is welcome in the person of the hungry and thirsty stranger.
— St. John Chrysostom
Boaz replied, “I have been made fully aware of all you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband, how you left your father and mother and the land of your birth, and how you came to a people you did not know before.
— Ruth 2:11
The foreigner living among you will rise higher and higher above you, while you sink down lower and lower.
— Deuteronomy 28:43
By a curious coincidence, as each point was recalled, the black wizards of Ashantee would strike up with their hatchets, as in ominous comment on the white stranger's thoughts. Pressed by such enigmas and portents, it would have been almost against nature, had not, even into the least distrustful heart, some ugly misgivings obtruded.
— Herman Melville
These six cities will serve as a refuge for the Israelites and for the foreigner or stranger among them, so that anyone who kills a person unintentionally may flee there.
— Numbers 35:15
True Hospitality is welcoming the stranger on her own terms. This kind of hospitality can only be offered by those who've found the center of their lives in their own hearts.
— Henri Nouwen
And she gave birth to a son, and Moses named him Gershom, saying, “I have become a foreigner in a foreign land.”
— Exodus 2:22
Take the garment of the one who posts security for a stranger; get collateral if it is for a foreigner.
— Proverbs 20:16
“I am a foreigner and an outsider among you. Give me a burial site among you so that I can bury my dead.”
— Genesis 23:4
Take the garment of him who posts security for a stranger; get collateral if it is for a foreigner.
— Proverbs 27:13
The greatest fear comes when God is a stranger.
— Billy Graham
Now his men found an Egyptian in the field and brought him to David. They gave the man water to drink and food to eat—
— 1 Samuel 30:11