#shepherd

Without the shepherd's dog, the whole of the open mountainous land in Scotland would not be worth a sixpence. ↗

— James Hogg

#land #open #scotland #shepherd #whole

Moses was getting to know God as Jehovah-Rohi, his Shepherd. Like a shepherd, God would feed and lead Moses as he led the people of Israel. “I will be with you,” God said earlier. What music that must have been to Moses’ ears! He took this promise by faith and thus was able to step confidently into his life purpose. “He tends his flock like a shepherd: He gathers the lambs in his arms and carries them close to his heart; he gently leads those that have young…” –Isaiah 40:11. ↗

— Beth Willis Miller

#moses #shepherd #age

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

— Troy Perry

#i #knows #lord #shepherd

Before I had crossed the threshold of my church I was made to realize that I was shepherd of a divided flock. ↗

— Anna Howard Shaw

#church #crossed #divided #flock #had

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

#relationships #shepherd #sport #wolf #art

I had a nightmare about the Averys’ sweet-tempered German shepherd, Ina. In the dream, as I was sitting on the floor in the Averys’ living room, the dog walked up to me and began to insult me. She said I was a frivolous, cynical, attention-seeking “fag” whose entire life had been phony. I answered her frivolously and cynically and chucked her under the chin. She grinned at me with malice, as if to make clear that she understood me to the core. Then she sank her teeth into my arm. As I fell over backward, she went for my throat. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#german-shepherd #dreams

Careless shepherd make excellent dinner for wolf. ↗

— Earl Derr Biggers

#dinner #excellent #make #shepherd #wolf

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

#benefit #leaders #many #people #responsibility

We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part. ↗

— Allan Bloom

#civilizations #flourished #fragments #great #having

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

#ancient #back #being #convention #due