Top 100 Quotes About The Shepherd
#1. what becomes of the shepherd / when the sheep are cannibals?
Ocean Vuong
#2. Of three things be wary- of a feather on a cat, The shepherd eating mutton, And a guardsman that is fat.
Mercedes Lackey
#3. As gentle a man as he was, as tender as was his heart, there was nothing weak about Michael Hosea. He was the strongest-minded man Joseph had ever met. A Man like Noah. A Man like the Shepherd-king David. A man after God's own heart.
Francine Rivers
#4. Man is not the lord of beings. Man is the shepherd of Being.
Martin Heidegger
#5. Though trodden beneath the shepherd's heel, the wild hyacinth blooms on the ground.
Gene Wolfe
#6. Your fear of death is but the trembling of the shepherd when he stands before the king whose hand is to be laid upon him in honour.
Kahlil Gibran
#7. I realized that I needed to be more like the shepherd than the hired hand in protecting my team.
Tony Dungy
#8. Too many leaders act as if the sheep ... their people ... are there for the benefit of the shepherd, not that the shepherd has responsibility for the sheep.
Ken Blanchard
#9. In solitude we remember we are not what anybody thinks of us - we are sheep tended to by the Shepherd.
-John Ortberg
John Ortberg
#10. Even on especially hard days, I began to notice him everywhere, setting a table before me in the presence of my enemies, pursuing me with his love. Both the child and the cynic walk through the valley of the shadow of death. The cynic focuses on the darkness; the child focuses on the Shepherd.
Paul Miller
#11. The only gift is a portion of thyself ... the poet brings his poem; the shepherd his lamb ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#12. 25For i you were straying like sheep, but have now returned to j the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.
Anonymous
#13. You have a God who hears you, the power of love behind you, the Holy Spirit within you, and all of heaven ahead of you. If you have the Shepherd, you have grace for every sin, direction for every turn, a candle for every corner, and an anchor for every storm. You have
Max Lucado
#15. In order to fully understand the power of "my cup overflows", you must know the Shepherd that fills it.
Kathy B. Nelson
#16. And my heart and soul is your heart and soul. I am Santiago the shepherd boy in search of my treasure, just as you are Santiago the shepherd bot in search of your own.
Paulo Coelho
#17. Today the aggressor is the shepherd of peace, and the beaten and hunted are the troublemakers of the world. What's more, there are whole races who believe it!
Erich Maria Remarque
#19. One lost sheep among a thousand
breaks the shepherd's heart;
one lost soul among a thousand
breaks God's heart.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#20. The man who saves time by galloping loses it by missing his way; the shepherd who hurries his flock to get them home spends the night on the mountain looking for the lost; economy does not consist in haste, but in certainty.
Ramsay MacDonald
#21. The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.
Laurence J. Peter
#22. Reason is the shepherd trying to corral life's vast flock of wild irrationalities.
Paul Eldridge
#23. Do exactly the opposite of what the sheep are doing in order to become the Shepherd.
Marshall Sylver
#24. The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious, and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones.
Northrop Frye
#25. Experience has taught me that the Shepherd is far more willing to show His sheep the path than the sheep are to follow. He is endlessly merciful, patient, tender, and loving. If we, His stupid and wayward sheep, really want to be led, we will without fail be led. Of that I am sure.
Elisabeth Elliot
#26. You parents of the wilful and the wayward! Don't give them up. Don't cast them off. They are not utterly lost. The Shepherd will find his sheep. They were His before they were yours - long before He entrusted them to your care; and you cannot begin to love them as He loves them.
Orson F. Whitney
#27. Raveand Rhamnusia, Goddes of Dispyte,' said Lymond acidly. 'I am trying to get you home, vide the shiten shepherd and the clene shepe, with your woolly chops spotless. The only drawback to date is that the bloody sheep is going to have to carry the shepherd, so far as I can see.
Dorothy Dunnett
#28. I want no Christmas without a burden for lost souls, a message for sinners, a heart to bring in the lost sheep so dear to the Shepherd, the sinning souls for whom Christ died.
John R. Rice
#29. One member of the company was still awaited; the shepherd-boy for the nymphs to woo, the knight for whom the ladies waited at the window,
Kenneth Grahame
#31. The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
Stendhal
#32. Quit acting like a wolf, and feel the shepherd's love filling you.
Rumi
#33. Either you get eaten by a wolf today or else the shepherd saves you from the wolf so he can sell you to the butcher tomorrow
Ogden Nash
#36. An employee is sheep. His employer is the shepherd. His salary is grass.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#37. God thinks like the shepherd who lays down his life in order to defend and save his sheep.
Pope Francis
#38. He, the Shepherd, sought the sheep, because they were His sheep; He has gone about "to seek and to save that which was lost," because that which was lost was His long before it was lost to itself or lost to Him.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#39. I did not throw 'The Shepherd Boy Sings in the Valley of Humiliation' at the audience. I threw it at the elocution mistress. I meant to cast it at her feet, but I missed.
Mary Ann Shaffer
#40. The giant's name was Goliath. The shepherd boy's name was David.
Malcolm Gladwell
#41. The shepherd will deny the diseased lamb in fear of the flock.
Khalil Gibran
#42. A shepherd's crown, not a royal one. A crown for someone who knew where she had come from. A crown for the lone light zigzagging through the night sky, hunting for a single lost lamb. A crown for the shepherd who was there to herd away the predators.
Terry Pratchett
#43. My role is the shepherd's role. The shepherd is the one who opens the gate and allows the flock to go through and whoever opens the gate has to close it, and the gate is not yet closed.
Jimmy Cliff
#44. If anything belongs in the Shepherd of the Night's flocks, lad, it's Trollocs.
Robert Jordan
#45. When the sun sleeps, the darkness awakens! When the shepherd disappears, the wolf appears on the horizon!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#46. This is the blessed life - not anxious to see far down the road nor overly concerned about the next step, not eager to choose the path nor weighted down with the heavy responsibilities of the future, but quietly following the Shepherd, one step at a time.
Lettie B. Cowman
#47. Change to tinkling sheep- bells, and the Queen's shrill cries to the voice of the shepherd boy
and the sneeze of the baby, the shriek of the Gryphon, and all
Lewis Carroll
#48. Tell me, Socrates, have you got a nurse? Why do you ask such a question, I said, when you ought rather to be answering? Because she leaves you to snivel, and never wipes your nose: she has not even taught you to know the shepherd from the sheep. What makes you say that? I replied.
Plato
#49. The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
Martin Heidegger
#50. You are the lamb. I am the shepherd. I will control your every move. I will direct and govern you until you learn your place. And I will guide you along the path to your slaughter.
D.H. Sidebottom
#51. Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter
Robert Greene
#52. The sheep learn to know the shepherd's voice in the ordinary days of life so that in a time of crisis it can be immediately recognized.
M. Esther Lovejoy
#54. The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.
Abraham Lincoln
#55. Shame on the shepherd who runs and hides when wolves are coming to harm his flock.
Scott Mariani
#56. Morning in the city is not a real morning; morning of the shepherd, that is the real morning!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#57. Those who are ignorant of Geology, find no difficulty in believing that the world was made as it is; and the shepherd, untutored in history, sees no reason to regard the green mounds which indicate the site of a Roman camp, as aught but part and parcel of the primeval hill-side.
Thomas Henry Huxley
#58. The heart set to do the Father's will need never fear defeat. His promises of guidance may be fully counted upon. Does it make sense to believe that the Shepherd would care less about getting His sheep where He wants them to go than they care about getting there?
Elisabeth Elliot
#59. When a shepherd goes to kill a wolf, and takes his dog to see the sport, he should take care to avoid mistakes. The dog has certain relationships to the wolf the shepherd may have forgotten.
Robert M. Pirsig
#60. God takes everyone he loves through a desert. It is his cure for our wandering hearts, restlessly searching for a new Eden ...
The best gift of the desert is God's presence ... The protective love of the Shepherd gives me courage to face the interior journey.
Paul E. Miller
#61. A nation which lives a pastoral and innocent life never decorates the shepherd's staff or the plough-handle; but races who live by depredation and slaughter nearly always bestow exquisite ornaments on the quiver, the helmet, and the spear.
John Ruskin
#62. As he prepared to ride on, he chuckled at the thought of the wolf entering the sheepfold. He would not ride with fire and destruction. The shepherd did not frighten his own pretty lambs.
Conn Iggulden
#63. Without the shepherd's dog, the whole of the open mountainous land in Scotland would not be worth a sixpence.
James Hogg
#64. If at bight you can't sleep, don't count sheep - talk to the Shepherd
Evelyn Christenson
#65. We are the archenemy of our own salvation, and the Shepherd must fight first of all with us - for us.
Romano Guardini
#67. Man, I was on the shepherd's pie last night like you wouldn't believe. I had, like, MASH in my EYEBROWS by 10pm. I was on a total mince rush!
Caitlin Moran
#68. Well hello," Caitlin said, eyeing the shepherd. "The last time I saw you, you were wearing your heart on your sleeve. Because I ripped it out and put it there.
Craig Schaefer
#69. I remember being in church. We would do the live nativity in my little town and I remember pulling the sheep. I was the shepherd, so I was pulling the sheep around town, down Main Street. I thought that was the most awesome, coolest thing ever.
Chris Tomlin
#70. Until almost the 20th century, Central Park was home to a shepherd and a flock of 200 sheep.
Bill Bryson
#71. The brain seems to be made up of a bewildering complexity of parts, and the cells within the parts seem to be characterized by an inscrutable complexity of form, extent, and relationships with each other.
Gordon Shepherd
#73. I drink a lot of water and I try to watch what I eat. The thing about me is I like healthy stuff, I like fruits and veggies, so it's all about moderation.
Ashton Shepherd
#74. The goal of living a life of faith is never to go against God, but to go with Him. It isn't just about getting what you want, it's about seeking God's best, then trusting Him with His answer." - Linda Evans Shepherd
Cherie Hill
#75. I worked at Sears in the Woodfield Mall as a gift wrapper. I'm actually a great gift wrapper, and the customers were so nice to me. I was only 16, and eventually Sears put me in customer service because I was so friendly.
Sherri Shepherd
#76. Flesh, blood, bone
the body is only a container for who we truly are inside.
Megan Shepherd
#77. If you don't go towards the thing you fear, you won't be able to say you lived.
Sherri Shepherd
#78. This is the white man's burden, the noblesse oblige of the missionary, colonist and development professional, who feel a duty to shepherd those unfortunate enough to be trapped in unenlightenment.
Alex Perry
#79. Lost sheep are scattered because the people who are supposed to shepherd them are not aware
Sunday Adelaja
#80. God is the mind that imagines physical reality. We are each like a cell in that mind.
Peter Shepherd
#81. I did many interviews, and went out and talked to many people and went to rallies. It was the same thing with menopause. I traveled around the country on talk shows and talking to women about.
Cybill Shepherd
#82. Jesus is the Good Shepherd; he is our true treasure. Please, let us not erase Jesus from our lives! Let us ground our hearts ever more in him (see Luke
Pope Francis
#83. Well, I've been politically involved for a really long time. Growing up in the segregated South, it was a very painful experience for me to live through the open racism of the time.
Cybill Shepherd
#84. With fear, possessiveness enters the picture, then jealousy rears its ugly head. Jealousy is the opposite of desiring life and freedom of choice for one's partner.
Peter Shepherd
#85. Even now, despite Angeline's watchfulness, she'd occasionally oscillate between random topics, like how shepherd's pie wasn't a pie at all and why it was pointless for her to take class in typing when technology would eventually develop robot companions to do it for us.
Richelle Mead
#86. Ken always says that his job is to create the best team possible, not to shepherd the careers of individual athletes.
Patrick Lencioni
#87. There are such things as delusions, but not every unlikely vision that the mentally ill have is imaginary.
Shepherd Hoodwin
#88. I know so many people who have gone through just not very good situations, and sometimes you just need a song to help pick you up out of it, especially if you're going through the hurting part.
Ashton Shepherd
#89. [Pope Francis] is a humble man. He lives the faith out in his own personal life ... He's here to be a shepherd; he isn't here to be a scold. I think that's a good thing for the church and for the world, frankly.
Rick Santorum
#90. Survival is for the human animal; fear the motivation. For the spiritual being survival is irrelevant. Curiosity, compassion and creativity are the name of the game; unconditional love the motivation.
Peter Shepherd
#91. For me and my husband, one of my biggest peeves is that I can't stand for an old friend or a woman to walk in the room and just run up and speak to my husband, but they don't talk to me.
Ashton Shepherd
#92. your words are pure poison, Master Reynold,' said Lesthen. 'You and your kind suffer from the worst disease of humanity, the willingness to subordinate truth, to lock reason in chains and to rape the objective thought, in order to achieve your objective.
Joel Shepherd
#93. Miss Juliet,' he said calmly. 'I can smell you in the wall. Is something wrong/
Megan Shepherd
#94. It isn't about the sharpness of the blade, but the hand that holds it.' Science doesn't do good or ill by itself- it's the intention behind it.
Megan Shepherd
#95. I'll always push the envelope. To me, the ultimate sin in life is to be boring. I don't play it safe.
Cybill Shepherd
#96. By letting go of what is known, you are free to encounter the living present, in all its perplexity and revelation. Just as silence is the possibility of sound, self-confessed ignorance is the possibility of encounter.
Philip Shepherd
#97. I know what a human brain preserved in formaldehyde looks like," I said, "We've got to get out of here. Go to the party, act as though nothing's happened. He can't suspect that we know."
"How can I act like papa doesn't have a brain in a hatbox?
Megan Shepherd
#98. In a world where very few people care if you live or die, there is a light that shines in the distance. It has a name that they call hope and it carries with it people that never stop caring. They learned long ago that extending mercy was not a choice, but a place where God lives.
Shannon L. Alder
#99. The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society recognizes that the deaths of four sealers is a tragedy, but Sea Shepherd also recognizes that the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of seal pups is an even greater tragedy.
Paul Watson
#100. For a moment, he rested his hand on the pitchfork, breath ragged. Strands of hair escaped the ponytail and fell over his eyes, making him look wild, untamed. He'd changed so much from that quiet boy. He'd had to, growing up with monsters as playmates.
Megan Shepherd
