Flocks Quotes - Page 7

• The declared enemies of God and His Church, heretics and schismatics, must be criticized as much as possible, as long as truth is not denied. It is a work of charity to shout: 'Here is the wolf!' when it enters the flock or anywhere else.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Powerful, Long, Catholic

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• We laugh heartily to see a whole flock of sheep jump because one did so. Might not one imagine that superior beings do the same, and for exactly the same reason?

  Sir Fulke Greville

  Fashion, Sheep, Laughing

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• As might be expected of creatures so heavenly in color, the disposition of bluebirds is particularly angelic. Gentleness and amiability are expressed in their soft musical voice. Tru-al-ly, tru-al-ly, they sweetly assert when we can scarcely believe that spring is here; tru-wee, tur-wee they softly call in autumn when they go roaming through the countryside in flocks of azure.

  Neltje Blanchan

  Spring, Believe, Autumn

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• The original form is the contagion of fear and alarm. You're in a flock of birds. One bird suddenly takes off. You have no time to wait and see what's going on. You take off, too. Otherwise, you're lunch.

  Frans de Waal

  Lunch, Bird, Waiting

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• Detecting and culling infected birds is still the key, and for that we have to compensate the owners of chicken whose flocks are killed. And we have to limit interaction between humans and birds, which is a huge challenge within an environment where people are used to living very close to their chickens.

  David Nabarro

  Keys, People, Bird

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• God's visit to earth took place in an animal shelter with no attendants present and nowhere to lay the newborn king but a feed trough. ... For just an instant the sky grew luminous with angels, yet who saw the spectacle? Illiterate hirelings who watched the flocks of others, "nobodies" who failed to leave their names.

  Philip Yancey

  Christmas, Kings, Angel

  Philip Yancey (1995). “The Jesus I Never Knew”, p.37, Harper Collins

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• She walks--the lady of my delight-- A sheperdess of sheep. Her flocks are thoughts. She keeps them white; She guards them from the steep. She feeds them on the fragrant height, And folds them in for sleep.

  Alice Meynell

  Sleep, White, Sheep

  Alice Meynell, Wilfrid Meynell (1931). “Selected Poems of Alice Meynell”, London, Nonesuch

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• Would I describe a preacher, I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste, And natural in gesture; much impress'd Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.

  William Cowper

  Simple, Men, Grace

  William Cowper (1851). “The Works of William Cowper: His Life, Letters, and Poems. Now First Completed by the Introduction of Cowper's Private Correspondence”, p.556

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• Just as many people flee Hollywood as those who flock to it. Hollywood can be an acquired taste.

  Shawn Amos

  People, Hollywood, Taste

  "Cookies & Milk: Scenes From a ‘70s Hollywood Childhood (Part 2)" by Shawn Amos, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 3, 2011.

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• The first priority of the Leader is to Pray for and be concerned for the welfare of your flock. The key to the rest of our life and ministry will be the investment of prayer we make in the lives of others.

  W. A. Criswell

  Prayer, Keys, Priorities

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• We find that alchemy has to do with magicians or magic and may even have roots in the Chaldean people who lived in the land that we now call Iraq.Abraham emerged and took a flock of people with him into Egypt. They were later called the Hebrews because of the valleys that they came out of. The alchemy that they saw was a transformative power within the individuals to affect the "out there" reality - and that, of course, is the basis of shamanism and is the basis for most magical and so-called Third World belief systems.

  Fred Alan Wolf

  Reality, Egypt, Land

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• Well, we find the Toronto blessing in every city we go to. I believe that it is a blessing indeed. ... the Toronto blessing has to be kicked out of the church - kicked out of the church into the world! If in each neighbourhood prayerhouse, there is a manifestation of Jesus, which I believe in its purest form that's what the Toronto blessing is, then the entire neighbourhood will flock to that house.

  Ed Silvoso

  Jesus, Believe, Blessing

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• You walk into a strip club with a wad of cash; they all flock around you. Strippers are just pigeons with tits. They go where the bread is.

  Chris Hardwick

  Cash, Clubs, Pigeons

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• Remember the band, Flock of Seagulls? They had their van stolen. I was like, They still have a van?

  Craig Ferguson

  Band, Remember, Stolen

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• If we are to keep our flock at the highest pitch of excellence, there should be as many unions of the best of both sexes, and as few of the inferior as possible, and that only the offspring of the better unions should be kept.

  Plato

  Sex, Excellence, Unions

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• If you think you can lead your flock of sheeple and peeps to some glorified noodle fest on the mall, you got another thing coming, mister.

  Stephen Colbert

  Thinking, Noodles, Malls

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• Sarah Palin embarrasses herself almost immediately upon opening her mouth to speak or upon moving her fingers to send messages to her dull flock.

  Henry Rollins

  Moving, Mouths, Dull

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• God is dethroned; and although the incognizant masses are tardy in realizing the event, they feel the icy draught caused by that vacancy. Man enters upon a spiritual ice age; the established churches can no longer provide more than Eskimo huts where their shivering flock huddles together.

  Arthur Koestler

  Spiritual, Men, Ice

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• Pilgrims travel to Jerusalem to see the Holy Land, and the foundations of their faith. People go to Washington, D.C. to see the workings of government, and the foundation of our country. And fans flock to Nashville to see the foundation of country music, the Grand Ole Opry.

  Brad Paisley

  Country, Government, Nashville

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• Let us only take heed that this office of Christ is not set before us in vain. It will profit us nothing at the last day that Jesus was a Shepherd, if during our lifetime, we never heard His voice and followed Him. If we love life, let us join His flock without delay.

  J. C. Ryle

  Jesus, Love Life, Voice

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Bible commentary - The gospel of John”, p.178, Editora Dracaena

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• As a leader... I have always endeavored to listen to what each and every person in a discussion had to say before venturing my own opinion. Oftentimes, my own opinion will simply represent a consensus of what I heard in the discussion. I always remember the axiom; a leader is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.

  Nelson Mandela

  Leader, Nimble, Shepherds

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• A poet is an unhappy creature whose heart is tortured by deepest suffering but whose lips are so formed that when his sighs and cries stream out over them, their sound beomes like the sound of beautiful music . . . . And men flock about the poet saying, Sing for us soon again; that is to say, may new sufferings torture your soul, and may your lips continue to be formed as before.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Beautiful, Heart, Men

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• I'm tired and it's taking an increasing amount out of me, more than I have to give physically. And that's why I want to move to Sicily and buy that little farm and raise a flock of goats and geese. I find it peaceful ... and it would be a nice way to end life.

  Tennessee Williams

  Nice, Moving, Tired

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Make a faster machine and people will flock to inefficient software.

  John C. Dvorak

  People, Machines, Faster

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• To be a good shepherd is to shear the flock, not skin it!

  Tiberius

  Skins, Shepherds, Good Shepherd

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