Sheep Shepherd Quotes

#1. There was a shepherd the other day up at Findon Fair who had come from the east by Lewes with sheep, and who had in his eyes that reminiscence of horizons which makes the eyes of shepherds and of mountaineers different from the eyes of other men.

Hilaire Belloc

#2. God has not abandoned us any more than he abandoned Job. He never abandons anyone on whom he has set his love; nor does Christ, the good shepherd, ever lose track of his sheep.

J.I. Packer

#3. As my son Frankie put it, Humanism has changed the Twenty-third Psalm: They began - I am my shepherd. Then - Sheep are my shepherd. Then - Everything is my shepherd. Finally - Nothing is my shepherd.

Francis A. Schaeffer

#4. But "having dominion over" meant something very different from what it has often been understood to mean. It refers to the relationship between shepherd and sheep.

Marcus J. Borg

#5. It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them.

Tiberius

#6. Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter

Robert Greene

#7. The complexities of life can never be untangled by man; like a sheep without a shepherd we have been self-programmed for destruction. Jesus Christ is the only way. Genesis 3:6 and John 14:6.

Felix Wantang

#8. God is not a celestial prison warden jangling the keys on a bunch of lifers
he's a shepherd seeking for sheep, a woman searching for coins, a father waiting for his son.

Clarence Jordan

#9. Sheep are always looking for a new shepherd when the terrain gets rocky.

Karen Marie Moning

#10. Are you a sheep? Do you want to get rid of your shepherd? I say forget it till you develop wild teeth and grow paw; and until then, enjoy the sound of flageolet!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. Caine:
Sheep. So long as they had a shepherd to ward off the wolves, they were happy. Spineless, indifferent, weak, stupid: it was hard not to have complete contempt for them.

Michael Grant

#14. Feed my lambs, shepherd my sheep.

Anonymous

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. God's downward descent to us in grace reversed by our upward ascent in pragmatic enthusiasm, we are increasingly becoming a sheep without a Shepherd - and all in the name of mission. Instead of churching the unchurched, we are well on our way to even unchurching the churched.

Michael S. Horton

#18. We thought you would not die - we were sure you would not go; And leave us in our utmost need to Cromwell's cruel blow - Sheep without a shepherd when the snow shuts out the sky - Oh, why did you leave us, Eoghan? Why did you die?

Bill O'Reilly

#19. God thinks like the shepherd who lays down his life in order to defend and save his sheep.

Pope Francis

#20. If a shepherd errs, he must be isolated from other shepherds, but woe unto us if the sheep begin to distrust shepherds.

Umberto Eco

#21. 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

#22. He will feed his flock like a shepherd. He will carry the lambs in his arms, holding them close to his heart. He will gently lead the mother sheep with their young. - Isaiah 40:11

Gary Chapman

#23. What shepherd feeds his sheep with his own blood? But Christ feeds us with His own Blood and in all things unites us to Himself.

Saint John Chrysostom

#24. Losses and adversities are frequently the means which the great Shepherd uses to fetch home His wandering sheep!

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#25. I would not have my sheep branded with any other mark than my own, or follow the whistle of a strange shepherd.

Elizabeth I

#26. Sheep do best when they have personal contact with their shepherd. It was intended that the Church would continue after his departure to heaven. There are many roles in a functioning, normal Church.

Word Alive Press

#27. If at bight you can't sleep, don't count sheep - talk to the Shepherd

Evelyn Christenson

#28. A shepherd may like to travel, but he should never forget his sheep.

Paulo Coelho

#29. The Lord is my shepherd. But if we are sheep why in heaven's name should we trust our shepherd? He's going to guard us from the wolves all right, oh yes, but only so that he can sell us later to the butcher.

Graham Greene

#30. And yet neither the bishops nor canons care how the poor people live or die, for whom nevertheless Christ has died, and who are not permitted to hear Him speak with them as the true Shepherd with His sheep.

Martin Luther

#31. Trust the Lord. He is the good shepherd. He knows His sheep. And His sheep know His voice.

M. Russell Ballard

#32. 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

#33. She thought of the Good Shepherd with His sheep. Of the Man hanging upon the cross. And the understanding bubbled up within her soul: He makes all things new.

Alicia G. Ruggieri

#34. 10The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly. 11I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

Anonymous

#35. The fold is that place where He keeps His flock shut behind the hurdles of the Ten Commandments. Every now and then, a sheep leaps one of these hurdles or pushes his way between them and runs away into forbidden pastures. Then the Good Shepherd goes after the erring sheep and brings it back.

Sabine Baring-Gould

#36. If you do not believe you are a lost sheep, then you do not need a Savior who is the Good Shepherd Jesus Christ. John 10:11-14.

Felix Wantang

#37. 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

#38. People are sheep. TV is the shepherd.

Jess C. Scott

#39. When you strike the shepherd you strike the sheep.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#40. 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

#41. Do exactly the opposite of what the sheep are doing in order to become the Shepherd.

Marshall Sylver

#42. A lost sheep needs a shepherd to find the way; if you don't believe you are a lost sheep then you will always want because you will never find the way. Psalm 23:1.

Felix Wantang

#43. Thierry, you must learn not only when to lift a burden, but when to set it down." He patted Shaw's lax face with his paw. "Otherwise, your back will break under the strain, and everyone who depends on you will be left as sheep without their shepherd. Do you understand?

Hailey Edwards

#44. 14I am the good shepherd; and I know My sheep, and am known by My own. 15As the Father knows Me, even so I know the Father; and I lay down My life for the sheep.

Anonymous

#45. Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Winston S. Churchill

#46. The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

Laurence J. Peter

#47. One lost sheep among a thousand
breaks the shepherd's heart;
one lost soul among a thousand
breaks God's heart.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#48. The wolf pounces on the sheep when the shepherd strays.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#49. Absolute power corrupts even when exercised for humane purposes. The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the people still demands from others the submissiveness of sheep. The taint inherent in absolute power is not its inhumanity but its anti-humanity.

Eric Hoffer

#50. 25For i you were straying like sheep, but have now returned to j the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

Anonymous

#51. In solitude we remember we are not what anybody thinks of us - we are sheep tended to by the Shepherd.
-John Ortberg

John Ortberg

#52. 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

#53. Humans are like sheep
scattered everywhere
a shepherd is always needed to keep them united

Muhammad Danish Rizwan

#54. Good Shepherd, You have a wild and crazy sheep in love with thorns and brambles. But please don't get tired of looking for me! I know You won't. For You have found me. All I have to do is stay found.

Thomas Merton

#55. I'm a shepherd, not a sheep, and I've always prided myself on being a leader and not a follower.

Dustin Diamond

#56. Lost sheep are scattered because the people who are supposed to shepherd them are not aware

Sunday Adelaja

#57. what becomes of the shepherd / when the sheep are cannibals?

Ocean Vuong

#58. How wonderful it is being a sheep in the flock of God. Our shepherd is the one that created the grass that we need for pasture, He is the one that created the rivers and the waters, He is the one who holds everything in His hand and He is my Shepherd.

Edmond Sanganyado

#59. The work of feeding and tending sheep is hard work, arduous work, and love for the sheep alone will not do it; you must have a consuming love for the Great Shepherd, the Lord Jesus Christ.

Alexander Strauch

#60. An employee is sheep. His employer is the shepherd. His salary is grass.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#61. If you are doing whatever a shepherd is ordering you to do, then you are a real sheep, a poor submissive being!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#62. The shepherd's fortune is in his sheep.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#63. 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

#64. And shame it is, if that a priest take keep, To see a shitten shepherd and clean sheep:

Geoffrey Chaucer

#65. The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

Stendhal

#66. Justice!" bleated Othello.
"Justice!" bleated the other sheep. And so it was decided that George Glenn's sheep themselves would solve the wicked murder of their shepherd.

Leonie Swann

#67. Until almost the 20th century, Central Park was home to a shepherd and a flock of 200 sheep.

Bill Bryson

#68. Jesus is the good Shepherd going before His sheep, bidding them follow Him, and ever leading them onwards with the sweet word, Come.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#69. God has, in fact, thought of us from eternity and has loved us as unique individuals. He has called every one of us by name, as the Good Shepherd 'calls His sheep by name.'

Pope John Paul II

#70. Sheep are not the docile, pleasant creatures of the pastoral idyll. Any countryman will tell you that. They are sly, occasionally vicious, pathologically stupid. The lenient shepherd may find his flock unruly, definant. I cannot afford to be lenient.

Joanne Harris

#71. 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

#72. Only sheep need a shepherd.

T. Rafael Cimino

#73. 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

#74. 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

#75. 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