Bible Verses About Pilgrims and Strangers: Saints are called to be

And the Lord said to Abram: Go forth out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and out of thy father's house, and come into the land which I shall shew thee.

If any man come to me, and hate not his father and mother and wife and children and brethren and sisters, yea and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

And whosoever doth not carry his cross and come after me cannot be my disciple.

So likewise every one of you that doth not renounce all that he possesseth cannot be my disciple.

And said to him: Go forth out of thy country and from thy kindred: and come into the land which I shall shew thee.