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Quotes About Goads

And God, the herdsman, goads them on behind.
~ William Butler Yeats
But Thou, Lord, abidest for ever, yet not for ever art Thou angry with us; because Thou pitiest our dust and ashes, and it was pleasing in Thy sight to reform my deformities; and by inward goads didst Thou rouse me, that I should be ill at ease, until Thou wert manifested to my inward sight. Thus, by the secret hand of Thy medicining was my swelling abated, and the troubled and bedimmed eyesight of my mind, by the smarting anointings of healthful sorrows, was from day to day healed.
~ St. Augustine
We all fell to the ground, and I heard a voice say to me in Hebrew, ëSaul, Saul, why do you persecute Me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.í
~ Acts 26:14