Quotes about Outcast
You feel like an outcast. You don't belong. You feel naked. While everyone else is walking around with their clothes on, you feel exposed and vulnerable. You are seen, and what others see is not pretty. You feel unclean. Something is wrong with you. You are dirty. Even worse, you are contaminated. There is a difference between being a bit muddy and harboring a deadly, contagious virus.
— Edward Welch
for not an orphan in the wide world can be so deserted as the child who is an outcast from a living parent's love.
— Charles Dickens
They were banished from among men, shouted down like thieves,
— Job 30:5
By embracing the "outcast," Jesus underscored the "sinfulness" of the persons and systems that cast them out.
— Miroslav Volf
But I will restore your health and heal your wounds, declares the LORD, because they call you an outcast, Zion, for whom no one cares.”
— Jeremiah 30:17
But I will restore you to health and heal your wounds," declares the LORD, "because you are called an outcast, Zion for whom no one cares." (Jer. 30:16—17)
— John Eldredge
And alien tears will fill for him pity's long broken urn. For his mourners will all be outcast men, and outcasts always mourn.
— Oscar Wilde
You have made us scum and refuse among the nations.
— Lamentations 3:45
I was a stranger and you did not take Me in, I was naked and you did not clothe Me, I was sick and in prison and you did not visit Me.’
— Matthew 25:43
The women laughed and wept; the crowd stamped their feet enthusiastically, for at that moment Quasimodo was really beautiful. He was handsome — this orphan, this foundling, this outcast.
— Victor Hugo
On the cross Jesus was treated as an outcast so that we could be brought into God's family freely by grace.
— Timothy Keller
Our hearts of stone become hearts of flesh when we learn where the outcast weeps.
— Brennan Manning