Quotes about Stranger
If he be a stranger in the world, that knows not the things that are in it; why not be a stranger as well, that wonders at the the things that are done in it?
- Marcus Aurelius
Cease, stranger, cease those witching notes, The art of syren choirs; Hush the seductive voice that floats Across the trembling wires. Music's ethereal power was given Not to dissolve our clay, But draw Promethean beams from heaven To purge the dross away.
- John Henry Newman
He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it: and he that hateth suretyship is sure."
- Ellen White
You shall love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt." Those most likely to befriend strangers, in other words, are those who have been strangers themselves. The best way to grow empathy for those who are lost is to know what it means to be lost yourself.
- Barbara Brown Taylor
However you define the problematic present-day stranger—the religious stranger, the cultural stranger, the transgendered stranger, the homeless stranger—scripture's wildly impractical solution is to love the stranger as the self.
- Barbara Brown Taylor
If a stranger called and interrupted you, you said with your hearty tongue, I'm glad to see you, and said with your heartier soul, I wish you were with the cannibals and it was dinner-time. When
- Mark Twain
A kind stranger is better than an uncaring friend.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
My soul longs to feel itself more of a pilgrim and stranger here below; that nothing may divert me from pressing through the lonely desert, till I arrive at my Father's house.
- Jonathan Edwards
By faith he was a stranger in the land of promise, and there was nothing to recall what was dear to him, but by its novelty everything tempted his soul to melancholy yearning — and yet he was God's elect, in whom the Lord was well pleased!
- Soren Kierkegaard
In the multitude of counsellors there is safety.He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it.
- Anonymous
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
In the thick of this meditation Archer suddenly felt himself looking at her with the startled gaze of a stranger
- Edith Wharton