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• 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

  Beautiful, Civilization, Play

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.239, Simon and Schuster

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• I want no Christmas without a burden for lost souls, a message for sinners, a heart to bring in the lost sheep so dear to the Shepherd, the sinning souls for whom Christ died.

  John R. Rice

  Heart, Sheep, Soul

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• Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain.

  Edmund Waller

  Rain, Sailor, Poor

  Edmund Waller (1854). “Poetical Works”, p.68

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• I have German Shepherds that I train and have brought back to Germany. I love going there.

  Ted Shackelford

  Germany, German Shepherds, Train

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• The heart set to do the Father's will need never fear defeat. His promises of guidance may be fully counted upon. Does it make sense to believe that the Shepherd would care less about getting His sheep where He wants them to go than they care about getting there?

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Father, Believe, Heart

  Elisabeth Elliot, Joshua Harris (2002). “Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control”, p.50, Revell

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• Support your priests with your love and prayers, that they may always be shepherds after Christ’s heart

  Pope Francis

  Prayer, Heart, Support

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• 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

  Ashes, Reign, Left

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• Quit acting like a wolf, and feel the shepherd's love filling you.

  Rumi

  Love, Acting, Quitting

  "The Essential Rumi". Book translated by Coleman Barks with John Moyne, A. J. Arberry and Reynold Nicholson. Chapter 1: "The Tavern", p. 2, 1995.

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• the streams buck like rams in a tent / whips crack and from the hills come the crookedly combed /shadows of the shepherds. /black eggs and fools' bells fall from the trees. / thunder drums and kettledrums beat upon the ears of the donkeys. / wings brush against flowers. / fountains spring up in the eyes of the wild boar.

  Hans Arp

  Spring, Flower, Fall

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• God has, in fact, thought of us from eternity and has loved us as unique individuals. He has called every one of us by name, as the Good Shepherd 'calls His sheep by name.'

  Pope John Paul II

  Unique, Sheep, Names

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• The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.

  David

  Lying, Names, Shadow Of Death

  King David of Israel, “Psalm 23: The Lord Is My Shepherd”

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• Sheep are not the docile, pleasant creatures of the pastoral idyll. Any countryman will tell you that. They are sly, occasionally vicious, pathologically stupid. The lenient shepherd may find his flock unruly, definant. I cannot afford to be lenient.

  Joanne Harris

  Stupid, Sheep, May

  Joanne Harris (2000). “Chocolat”, p.17, Penguin

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• The God of love my shepherd is,            And he that doth me feed: While he is mine, and I am his,            What can I want or need?

  George Herbert

  Needs, Want, Mines

  'The 23rd Psalm' (1633).

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• There is one fold and one shepherd.

  Pope Boniface VIII

  Folds

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• I know only one thing. when i sleep, i know no fear, no, trouble no bliss. blessing on him who invented sleep. the common coin that purchases all things, the balance that levels shepherd and king, fool and wise man. there is only one bad thing about sound sleep. They say it closely resembles death.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Wise, Kings, Sleep

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• The mistake made by all previous systems of ethics has been the failure to recognize that life as such is the mysterious value with which they have to deal. All spiritual life meets us within natural life. Reverence for life, therefore, is applied to natural life and spiritual life alike. In the parable of Jesus, the shepherd saves not merely the soul of the lost sheep but the whole animal. The stronger the reverence for natural life, the stronger grows also that for spiritual life.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Life, Strength, Spiritual

  Albert Schweitzer, Charles Rhind Joy (1947). “Albert Schweitzer: An Anthology”, Boston : Beacon Press

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• Reason is the shepherd trying to corral life's vast flock of wild irrationalities.

  Paul Eldridge

  Trying, Logic, Reason

  Maxims for a Modern Man 2194

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• The only gift is a portion of thyself . . . the poet brings his poem; the shepherd his lamb. . . .

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Poetry, Lambs, Portions

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• Off to one side sits a group of shepherds. They sit silently on the floor, perhaps perplexed, perhaps in awe, no doubt in amazement. Their night watch had been interrupted by an explosion of light from heaven and a symphony of angels. God goes to those who have time to hear him-and so on this cloudless night he went to simple shepherds.

  Max Lucado

  Christmas, Angel, Simple

  Max Lucado (2010). “God Came Near Deluxe Edition”, p.4, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• So here comes Gabriel again, and what he says is "Good tidings of great joy for all people." That's why the shepherds are first: they represent all the nameless, all the working stiffs, the great wheeling population of the whole world.

  Walter Wangerin

  Healing, People, Joy

  Walter Wangerin Jr. (2011). “Preparing for Jesus”, p.107, Zondervan

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• I take comfort in knowing that it was the shepherds to whom the angels appeared when they announced Christ's birth. Invariably throughout the course of history, God has appeared to people on the fringes. It's nice to find theological justification for your quirks.

  Rich Mullins

  Nice, Angel, Knowing

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• When the sun sleeps, the darkness awakens! When the shepherd disappears, the wolf appears on the horizon!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Sleep, Darkness, Horizon

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• What shepherd feeds his sheep with his own blood? But Christ feeds us with His own Blood and in all things unites us to Himself.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Sheep, Blood, Christ

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• The poor looking shepherd of the dessert is in substance very rich with all the magical treasures of the desert.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Desert, Substance, Treasure

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• A good shepherd shears his flock, not flays them.
  [Lat., Boni pastoris est tondere pecus non deglubere.]

  Suetonius

  Flocks, Shears, Good Shepherd

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