Quotes about Strangers
In India, I learned a proverb that may seem somewhat heartless: "The tears of strangers are only water." It means we are obligated to help only our own; if others have a problem, we wish them well, but it's their problem.
— Dinesh D'Souza
If you were not strangers here, the dogs of the world would not bark at you.
— Samuel Rutherford
There is a difference between feeding someone and eating dinner with them. If every Christian at home just made room for the stranger we would end homelessness overnight.
— Shane Claiborne
Then the LORD said to Abram, “Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not their own, and they will be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years.
— Genesis 15:13
For we are foreigners and strangers in Your presence, as were all our forefathers. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.
— 1 Chronicles 29:15
Walking by faith will cause all of us to recognize that as children of God we are just pilgrims and strangers down here on this earth.
— J. Vernon McGee
The word hospitality in the New Testament comes from two Greek words. The first word means love and the second word means strangers. Its a word that means love of strangers.
— Nancy Leigh DeMoss
Your land is desolate; your cities are burned with fire. Foreigners devour your fields before you—a desolation demolished by strangers.
— Isaiah 1:7
Outside, among your fellows, among strangers, you must preserve appearances, 100 things you cannot do; but inside, the terrible freedom!
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
lest strangers feast on your wealth, and your labors enrich the house of a foreigner.
— Proverbs 5:10
Why should I take my bread and water and the meat I have slaughtered for my shearers, and give them to these men whose origin I do not know?”
— 1 Samuel 25:11
and well known for good deeds such as bringing up children, entertaining strangers, washing the feet of the saints, imparting relief to the afflicted, and devoting herself to every good work.
— 1 Timothy 5:10