Shepherds Quotes - Page 5

• He guides us into pastures green, He leads to bowers of bliss, Our Father lives, the God unseen, and Christ our Shepherd is.

  Cecil Frances Alexander

  Father, Unseen, Green

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• 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

  Roles, Flocks, Gates

  Source: www.pbs.org

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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

  Sheep, Would Be, Justified

  Frederic Bastiat (2006). “The Law”, p.60, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• For, what is a family without a steward, a ship without a pilot, a flock without a shepherd, a body without a head, the same, I think, is a kingdom without the health and safety of a good monarch.

  Elizabeth I

  Leadership, Thinking, Safety

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• There is a willow grows aslant a brook, That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream; There with fantastic garlands did she come Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples That liberal shepherds give a grosser name, But our cold maids do dead men's fingers call them: There, on the pendent boughs her coronet weeds Clambering to hang, an envious sliver broke; When down her weedy trophies and herself Fell in the weeping brook.

  William Shakespeare

  Weed, Flower, Men

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 4, sc. 7, l. 167

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• Whatever poets may write, or fools believe, of rural innocence and truth, and of the perfidy of courts, this is most undoubtedly true,--that shepherds and ministers are both men; their natures and passions the same, the modes of them only different.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Believe, Passion, Writing

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.80, Oxford University Press

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• The body is a big sagacity, a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace, a flock and a shepherd.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Philosophy, War, Health

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Thus spake Zarathustra - A Book for All and None”, p.57, Friedrich Nietzsche

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• Who are we, as we stand before the child Jesus? Who are we, standing as we stand before today's children? Are we like Mary and Joseph, who welcomed Jesus and cared for him with the love of a father and a mother? Or are we like Herod, who wanted to eliminate him? Are we like the shepherds, who went in haste to kneel before him in worship and offer him their humble gifts? Or are we indifferent?

  Pope Francis

  Mother, Jesus, Children

  Pope Francis (2016). “I Believe: The Promise of the Creed”, p.49, Orbis Books

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• It is a fool of a shepherd who culls his dogs.

  Jefferson Smith

  Dog, Fool

  Jefferson Smith (2011). “Strange Places”, p.177, Creativity Hacker Press

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• Loving God, help us remember the birth of Jesus, that we may share in the song of the angels, the gladness of the shepherds, and the worship of the wise men.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Wise, Song, Jesus

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• Like a red morn that ever yet betokened,
  Wreck to the seaman, tempest to the field,
  Sorrow to the shepherds, woe unto the birds,
  Gusts and foul flaws to herdmen and to herds.

  William Shakespeare

  Woe Unto, Bird, Sorrow

  William Shakespeare (1843). “The Poems of William Shakspere: With Facts Connected with His Life”, p.42

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• If, as we have said, we commemorate each of the saints with hymns and appropriate songs of praise, how much more should we celebrate the memory of Peter and Paul, the supreme leaders of the pre-eminent company of the apostles? They are the fathers and guides of all Christians: apostles, martyrs, holy ascetics, priests, hierarchs, pastors and teachers.

  Gregory Palamas

  Christian, Song, Teacher

  "The homilies".

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• 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

  Kings, Heart, Men

  Francine Rivers (2009). “Redeeming Love: A Novel”, p.224, Multnomah

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• WEATHERS This is the weather the cuckoo likes, And so do I; When showers betumble the chestnut spikes, And nestlings fly; And the little brown nightingale bills his best, And they sit outside at 'The Traveller's Rest,' And maids come forth sprig-muslin drest, And citizens dream of the south and west, And so do I. This is the weather the shepherd shuns, And so do I; When beeches drip in browns and duns, And thresh and ply; And hill-hid tides throb, throe on throe, And meadow rivulets overflow, And drops on gate bars hang in a row, And rooks in families homeward go, And so do I.

  Thomas Hardy

  Dream, Weather, Plies

  Late Lyrics and Earlier (1922) "Weathers"

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• Shepherds don't look after sheep because they love them - although I do think some shepherds like their sheep too much. They look after their sheep so they can, first, fleece them and second, turn them into meat. That's much more like the priesthood as I know it.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Thinking, Sheep, Meat

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• Power, after all, is not just military strength. It is the social power that comes from democracy, the cultural power that comes from freedom of expression and research, the personal power that entitles every Arab citizen to feel that he or she is in fact a citizen, and not just a sheep in some great shepherd's flock.

  Edward Said

  Freedom, Military, Expression

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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

  Science, Civilization, Phrases

  Harry Emerson Fosdick (1941). “Living under tension: sermons on Christianity today”

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• Grant that we may be one flock and one shepherd.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Religion, Atheism, May

  "CNN Live" with Fionnuala Sweeney, edition.cnn.com. April 24, 2005.

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• The fields are still ripe for harvesting (cf. Jn 4:35); God continues to give the growth (cf. 1 Cor 3:6). We can and must believe, with the late Pope John Paul II, that God is preparing a new springtime for Christianity (cf. Redemptoris Missio, 86). What is needed above all, at this time in the history of the Church in America, is a renewal of that apostolic zeal which inspires her shepherds actively to seek out the lost, to bind up those who have been wounded, and to bring strength to those who are languishing (cf. Ez 34:16).

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Believe, Cfs, America

  Pope Benedict XVI (2008). “Pope Benedict in America: The Full Texts of Papal Talks Given During His Apostolic Visit to the United States”, p.57, Ignatius Press

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• Love like Death,, Levels all ranks, and lays the shepherd's crook Beside the scepter

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Love, Death, Crooks

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• There were only a few shepherds at the first Bethlehem. The ox and the donkey understood more of the first Christmas than the high priests in Jerusalem. And it is the same today.

  Thomas Merton

  Christmas, Jerusalem, Today

  "Evangelical Sunday School Lesson Commentary 2013-2014". Book by Lance Colkmire, p. 164, January 5, 2012.

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• 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

  Government, Chiefs, Hard

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• But what a humiliation for me when someone standing next to me heard a flute in the distance and I heard nothing, or someone standing next to me heard a shepherd singing and again I heard nothing. Such incidents drove me almost to despair; a little more of that and I would have ended my life - it was only my art that held me back.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Art, Distance, Loss

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• When we are fearful and worried all the time, we are living as if we don't believe that we have a strong and able Shepherd who is tenderhearted toward us, who only leads us to good places, who protects us and lovingly watches over us.

  Joseph Prince

  Love, Strong, Believe

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• Oh, that dog! Ever hear of a German Shepherd that bites its nails? Barks with a lisp? You say, "Attack!" And he has one. All he does is piddle. He's nothing but a fur-covered kidney that barks.

  Phyllis Diller

  Funny, Dog, Nails

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