Only to strangers.

Hannah Brencher Love letters to strangers

People unburdened themselves to strangers.

Don't talk to strangers says,

Do you always offer your life to strangers?

Our inheritance is turned to strangers, Our houses to aliens.

Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.

They took counsel, and bought the potter's field with them, to bury strangers in.

And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter's field, to bury strangers in.

They'd never let a gringo.

There's pseudo science, crop circles, alien autopsy, haunted houses, or disasters.

Start letting strangers in, the place will be full up.

but given to hospitality, a lover of good, sober minded, fair, holy, self controlled

But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate

I'm not accessible to strangers for the price of a free dinner.

The American troops who have risked their lives and sacrificed their limbs for strangers half a world away.

Smiling is a universal human practice, although readiness to smile at strangers varies according to culture.

Even four years ago, letting strangers stay in your home seemed like a crazy idea.

She wakes up hungry during the night, yet she wants to give away food.

And while my half brother and sister thought they'd been abandoned, orphaned, my father was making false papers.

The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching

A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach

Only acknowledge your iniquity, that you have transgressed against Yahweh your God, and have scattered your ways to the strangers under every green tree, and you have not obeyed my voice,' says Yahweh.

Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the LORD thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith the LORD.

My guess given that you're at a conference called TEDGlobal is that most of you are xenophiles, whether or not you use that term.

I don't claim any merit for standing the stress of Jim's emotions I could take refuge in the letters I could have written to strangers if necessary.

To outsiders, the region is virtually synonymous with political polarization. Fatigue clad guerrillas, charismatic populists, and reactionary military junta leaders have long cut much larger figures than moderate politicians in boring gray suits.

Likewise, there are hard line Jews, such as the settler groups who drive Palestinians from their homes in East Jerusalem and Hebron, who have forgotten the early teachings of Jewish scholars who argued that strangers should be treated like your own people.

We still clutch close these letters to our chest, to the words that speak louder than loud, when we turn pages into palettes to say the things that we have needed to say, the words that we have needed to write, to sisters and brothers and even to strangers, for far too long.