Shepherds Quotes - Page 6

• In peace, Love tunes the shepherd's reed;
  In war, he mounts the warrior's steed;
  In halls, in gay attire is seen;
  In hamlets, dances on the green.
  Love rules the court, the camp, the grove,
  And men below, and saints above;
  For love is heaven, and heaven is love.

  Walter Scott

  Love, Life, Peace

  The Lay of the Last Minstrel canto 3, st. 2 (1805)

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• Pity those who seek for shepherds, instead of longing for freedom!

  Paulo Coelho

  Freedom, Independence, Longing

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• My times of silence before God are very important to me now. I put everything else down, every word away, and I am with the Lord. When I'm quiet, life falls into perspective for me. I have a very active mind and I'm a worrier, but in those moments when I choose to put that away, I rest beside the Shepherd in still places. Why don't you give yourself a gift today? Turn off the television or the car stereo, put down the newspaper or the business plan, and in the quietness, rest for a while beside the Shepherd of your soul.

  Sheila Walsh

  Fall, Giving, Perspective

  Sheila Walsh (2001). “Gifts for Your Soul: A Book of Daily Devotions”, Zondervan Publishing Company

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• The Lord's our shepherd, says the psalm. But just in case, we better get a bomb.

  Tom Lehrer

  Bombs, Politics, Psalms

  Song: Who's Next?, Album: That Was the Year That Was

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• At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Christmas story. A young mother and a dutiful father with their baby were joined by poor shepherds and visitors from afar. They came with their gifts to worship the Christ child.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Christmas, Mother, Baby

  Queen Elizabeth II's Christmas Day Speech, www.telegraph.co.uk. December 25, 2012.

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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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• My Lebanon is a flock of birds fluttering in the early morning as shepherds lead their sheep into the meadow & rising in the evening as farmers return from their fields and vineyards.You have your Lebanon and its people. I have my Lebanon and its people.

  Khalil Gibran

  Morning, Sheep, People

  Khalil Gibran “Selected Short Works of Khalil Gibran”, Library of Alexandria

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• I saw a young sister, just before this service; and I said to her, "When did you find the Lord?" She replied, "It was when I was very ill." Yes, it is often so; God makes us ill in body that we may have time to think of Him, and turn to Him....What would become of some people if they were always in good health, or if they were always prospering? But tribulation is the black dog that goes after the stray sheep, and barks them back to the Good Shepherd. I thank God that there are such things as the visitations of correction and of holy discipline, to preserve our spirit, and bring us to Christ.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Dog, Thinking, Sheep

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• Of her scorn the maid repented, And the shepherd - of his love.

  Anna Letitia Barbauld

  Love, Maids, Scorn

  Anna Letitia Barbauld, Lucy Aikin (1825). “The works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: in two volumes”, p.79

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• The Lord is my Shepherd and he knows I'm gay.

  Troy Perry

  Gay, Lgbt Pride, Lord

  "Lord Is My Shepherd and He Knows I'm Gay". Book by Troy Perry, 1972.

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• Our forefathers looked upon nature with more reverence and horror, before the world was enlightened by learning and philosophy, and loved to astonish themselves with the apprehensions of witchcraft, prodigies, charms, and inchantments. There was not a village in England that had not a ghost in it, the church-yards were all haunted, every large common had a circle of fairies belonging to it, and there was scarce a shepherd to be met with who had not seen a spirit.

  Joseph Addison

  Philosophy, Circles, Church

  Richard Steele, Joseph Addison (1801). “The Spectator”, p.183

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• A preacher must be both soldier and shepherd. He must nourish, defend, and teach; he must have teeth in his mouth, and be able to bite and fight.

  Martin Luther

  Fighting, Soldier, Teeth

  Martin Luther (1818). “The familiar discourses of dr. Martin Luther, tr. by H. Bell”, p.241

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• Those who were adept and brave fellows I have made military commanders. Those who were quick and nimble I have made herders of horses. Those who were not adept I have given a small whip and sent to be shepherds

  Genghis Khan

  Horse, Military, Brave

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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.

  Pope Boniface VIII

  Sheep, Greek, Christ

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• Hast any philosophy in thee shepherd? .• • • • . . . He that wants money, means and content, is without three good friends; that the property of rain is to wet and fire to burn; that good pasture makes fat sheep, and a great cause of the night is lack of the sun; that he that hath learned no wit by nature nor art may complain of good breeding or comes of a very dull kindred.

  William Shakespeare

  Friendship, Art, Philosophy

  William Shakespeare (1820). “Select Plays of William Shakespeare: In Six Volumes. With the Corrections & Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are Added, Notes”, p.66

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• Ah! what is love! It is a pretty thing, As sweet unto a shepherd as a king, And sweeter too; For kings have cares that wait upon a crown, And cares can make the sweetest love to frown.

  Robert Greene

  Love, Sweet, Kings

  'The Shepherd's Wife's Song' (1590)

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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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