#shepherd

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

I find that I sent wolves not shepherds to govern Ireland, for they have left me nothing but ashes and carcasses to reign over! ↗

— Elizabeth I

#find #govern #i #ireland #left

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

#german #go #god #jack #many

Man is not the lord of beings. Man is the shepherd of Being. ↗

— Martin Heidegger

#beings #lord #man #shepherd

We were looking for a 'good shepherd,' and instead we got a German shepherd. ↗

— Pope Benedict XVI

#good #got #instead #looking #shepherd

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

— Dustin Diamond

#being #being a leader #follower #i #leader

Christ proclaimed: "I am the good shepherd." He then further showed, and with eloquent exactness, the difference between a shepherd and a hireling herder. The one has personal interest in and love for his flock, and knows each sheep by name, the other knows them only as a flock, the value of which is gaged by number; to the hireling they are only as so many or so much. While the shepherd is ready to fight in defense of his own, and if necessary even imperil his life for his sheep, the hireling flees when the wolf approaches, leaving the way open for the ravening beast to scatter, rend, and kill. ↗

— James E. Talmage

#love

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

Careless shepherd make excellent dinner for wolf. ↗

— Earl Derr Biggers

#dinner #excellent #make #shepherd #wolf