quotes about Shepherds
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Jacob is a German Shepherd. (I have never understood why they aren't called German Sheepdogs. What do the Germans call shepherds?)
-- Alan Coren -
We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished.
-- Allan Bloom -
I've got a good shepherd; you've got a sadistic dentist.
-- Amy-Jill Levine -
Of her scorn the maid repented, And the shepherd - of his love.
-- Anna Letitia Barbauld -
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I have a responsibility to nurture and shepherd my talent and when I'm living the parts of my life not related to that I feel I have the right to be left alone.
-- Ashley Judd -
Caffeine is my shepherd; I shall not doze. It maketh me to wake in green pastures: It leadeth me beyond the sleeping masses. It restoreth my buzz.
-- Bob Phillips -
Men were just like sheep, and nothing was easier than for women to set up as shepherds and pen them up in a field.
-- Booth Tarkington -
Linda Evans Shepherd has blessed many by her warmth and openness. She's not only a delightful person, but she encourages others as she shares her joy.
-- Cecil Murphey -
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My kids are around pit bulls every day. In the ’70s they blamed Dobermans, in the ’80s they blamed German Shepherds, in the ’90s they blamed the Rottweiler. Now they blame the Pit Bull.
-- Cesar Millan -
A time will come when instead of shepherds feeding the sheep, the church will have clowns entertaining the goats
-- Charles Spurgeon -
Life is a journey, photography is thy shepherd.
-- Destin Sparks -
The church is not a campus but a community. Pastors are not CEOs; they are shepherds.
-- Dillon Burroughs -
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I'm a shepherd, not a sheep, and I've always prided myself on being a leader and not a follower.
-- Dustin Diamond -
Careless shepherd make excellent dinner for wolf.
-- Earl Derr Biggers -
Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain.
-- Edmund WallerSource : Edmund Waller (1854). “Poetical Works”, p.68
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Where does your security lie? Is God your refuge, your hiding place, your stronghold, your shepherd, your counselor, your friend, your redeemer, your saviour, your guide? If He is, you don't need to search any further for security.
-- Elisabeth Elliot -
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They would be the shepherds over us, their sheep. Certainly such an arrangement presupposes that they are naturally superior to the rest of us. And certainly we are fully justified in demanding from the legislators and organizers proof of this natural superiority.
-- Frederic Bastiat -
All the dogs I have are German shepherds from Germany, and I fly them back to Germany to show them.
-- George Foreman -
A Jack Russell terrier? My god. He'll burn you up. They never stop. A German shepherd, you can only go so many miles.
-- George Foreman -
Compassion is a Shepherd, Always tending his herd.
-- Geshe Kelsang Gyatso -
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O Shepherd. You said you would make my feet like hinds' feet and set me upon High Places". "Well", he answered "the only way to develop hinds' feet is to go by the paths which the hinds use.
-- Hannah HurnardSource : Hannah Hurnard, Darien Cooper (2015). “Hinds' Feet on High Places: The Original and Complete Allegory with a Devotional and Journal for Women by Darien Cooper”, p.166, Destiny Image Publishers
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One could almost phrase the motto of our modern civilization thus: Science is my shepherd; I shall not want.
-- Harry Emerson Fosdick -
Peoples will be as before, the sheep sent to the slaughterhouses or to the meadows as it pleases the shepherds
-- Henri La Fontaine -
Long ago Apollo called to Aristæus, youngest of the shepherds, Saying, "I will make you keeper of my bees." Golden were the hives, and golden was the honey; golden, too, the music, Where the honey-makers hummed among the trees.
-- Henry Van Dyke -
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Shepherds at the grange, Where the Babe was born, Sang with many a change, Christmas carols until morn.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -
A shepherd, in whom the spirit of God works, is more highly esteemed before God than the wisest and most potent in self-wit, without the divine dominion.
-- Jakob Bohme -
If so many Americans are looking for the government to save them, then it is hard to have a dignified search for a shepherd in chief.
-- James Bovard -
It is a fool of a shepherd who culls his dogs.
-- Jefferson SmithSource : Jefferson Smith (2011). “Strange Places”, p.177, Creativity Hacker Press
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People are sheep. TV is the shepherd.
-- Jess C ScottSource : Jess C. Scott (2012). “Literary Heroin (Gluttony): A Twilight Parody”, p.16, jessINK
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For me, a picture should be like sparks. It must dazzle like the beauty of a woman or a poem. It must have radiance; it must be like those stones which Pyrenean shepherds use to light their pipes.
-- Joan Miro -
And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale.
-- John Milton -
If God has given us Himself, if He abides in us and we in Him, according to His own true words, then what will He not give me, what will He spare for me, of what will He deprive me, how can He forsake me? 'The Lord is my shepherd: therefore I lack nothing' (Ps. 23:1).
-- John of Kronstadt -
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A true shepherd leads the way. He does not merely point the way.
-- Leonard Ravenhill -
Trust the Lord. He is the good shepherd. He knows His sheep. And His sheep know His voice.
-- M. Russell Ballard -
Many a beggar at the crossway, or gray-haired shepherd on the plain, hath more of the end of all wealth than hundreds who multiply the means.
-- Martin Farquhar Tupper -
The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
-- Martin Heidegger -
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Were it not for the shepherds, there would have been no reception. And were it not for a group of stargazers, there would have been no gifts.
-- Max Lucado -
The breeding of shepherd dogs is the breeding of working dogs; and this must always be the aim, or we shall cease to produce shepherd dogs.
-- Max von Stephanitz -
The good Shepherd dog knows his master almost better than himself and must wonder indeed at the lack of the reverse.
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What did one shepherd say to the other shepherd? Let’s get the flock out of here.
-- Mel Gibson -
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Of three things be wary- of a feather on a cat, The shepherd eating mutton, And a guardsman that is fat.
-- Mercedes Lackey -
Reason is the shepherd trying to corral life's vast flock of wild irrationalities.
-- Paul EldridgeSource : Maxims for a Modern Man 2194
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Grant that we may be one flock and one shepherd. Do not allow your net to be torn, help us to be servants of unity.
-- Pope Benedict XVI -
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If, therefore, the Greeks or others say that they are not committed to Peter and to his successors, they necessarily say that they are not of the sheep of Christ, since the Lord says that there is only one fold and one shepherd (Jn.10:16). Whoever, therefore, resists this authority, resists the command of God Himself.
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Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter
-- Robert Greene -
Knowing another is endless,' Shepherd had written; 'The thing to be known grows with the knowing.
-- Robert MacfarlaneSource : Robert Macfarlane (2012). “The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot”, p.175, Penguin
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Quit acting like a wolf, and feel the shepherd's love filling you.
-- Rumi -
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Beside each believer stands an Angel as protector and shepherd, leading him to life.
-- Saint Basil -
A bird in The Strand is worth two in Shepherds Bush
-- Spike Milligan -
A good shepherd shears his flock, not flays them. [Lat., Boni pastoris est tondere pecus non deglubere.]
-- Suetonius -
I have German Shepherds that I train and have brought back to Germany. I love going there.
-- Ted Shackelford -
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The Lord's our shepherd, says the psalm. But just in case, we better get a bomb.
-- Tom Lehrer -
If the Lord is your shepherd, He is sufficient for all your needs.
-- Tony EvansSource : Tony Evans (2008). “Our God is Awesome: Encountering the Greatness of Our God”, p.75, Moody Publishers
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The Lord is my Shepherd and he knows I'm gay.
-- Troy PerrySource : "Lord Is My Shepherd and He Knows I'm Gay". Book by Troy Perry, 1972.
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I think our shepherds, our pastors, can take for instance, Chapter Four [of Amoris Laetitia], 'Vive l'amore' ('How to live love'). It's a great catechesis. You can take it chapter by chapter, passage by passage, and work through it in the parish, in the communities. It's a great catechesis on marital and familial love. And I think as pastors, we can use this for our pastoral work.
-- Christoph SchonbornSource : Source: zenit.org
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I was named after the next-door neighbor's German shepherd. It was either that or Cadillac Smith.
-- Rex Smith -
I had started working in television but it did not pay that much. I was 27, renting this little one-bed flat in Shepherd's Bush, West London, with a bathroom so small only someone of my size could actually get in it.
-- Anthea TurnerSource : Source: www.dailymail.co.uk
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In Egypt the staff was rendered as a shepherd's crook that was a symbol for the pharaohs, the Druids of Egypt. The pharaohs wore the serpent on their headgear and the serpent was the symbol of the Magi of Ireland, the Naddreds, or Druids.
-- Michael Tsarion -
We weren't wealthy but we definitely weren't poor. We were incredibly rich because there was a wonderful community in Shepherd's Bush, where I grew up. All my friends were into villainy and crime.
-- Roger Daltrey -
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We are the archenemy of our own salvation, and the Shepherd must fight first of all with us - for us.
-- Romano GuardiniSource : Romano Guardini (2012). “The Lord”, p.162, Regnery Publishing
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Without the shepherd's dog, the whole of the open mountainous land in Scotland would not be worth a sixpence.
-- James HoggSource : James Hogg (1829). “The Shepherd's Calendar”, p.214
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A shepherd may be a very able, trusty, and good shepherd, without a sweetheart-better, perhaps, than with one. But what is he without his dog?
-- James HoggSource : James Hogg, Douglas S. Mack (1995). “The shepherd's calendar”, Edinburgh Univ Pr
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To be a good shepherd is to shear the flock, not skin it!
-- Tiberius -
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It takes some of us a lifetime to learn that Christ, our Good Shepherd, knows exactly what He is doing with us. He understands us perfectly.
-- W. Phillip Keller