Quotes About Shepherd

I am the good shepherd; I know my sheep and my sheep know me" (John 10:14 NIV).

He motions for you to lean forward. "I have a secret to tell you," he whispers, "the secret of satisfaction. 'The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want'" (Ps. 23: 1 NKJV). David has found the pasture where discontent goes to die. It's as if he is saying, "What I have in God is greater than what I don't have in life.

If you collect a fat flock, you don't leave it grazing beside a wolf's den.

How many's that?" I asked the shepherd. "Jiggit and mumph, lord," he said. "Is that enough?" "It's enough, lord." "Kill the rest then," I said. "Jiggit and mumph?" Willibald asked, still shivering. "Twenty and five," I said. "Yain, tain, tether, mether, mumph. It's how shepherds count. I don't know why. The world is full of mystery.

Save Your people, bless Your possession, shepherd them, and carry them forever. Psalm 28:9

Wee Archie was wielding a shepherd's crook that, as Tommy remarked later, no shepherd would be found dead with, and he was wearing a kilt that no Highlander would dream of being found alive in.

If at bight you can't sleep, don't count sheep - talk to the Shepherd

Neverfell shepherded her herd of frightened, woolly suspicions.

The Apocalypse . . . a storm warning that carries a booming jolt of truth—Trouble ahead; prepare to meet thy God!—followed by the voice of the Gentle Shepherd—Come!

Evening Star, gold light of Aphrodite born in the foam, Evening Star, holy diamond of the glassblue night, you are dimmer than the moon, brighter than another star. Hello, good friend! I'm on my way to serenade my shepherd love. Give me your rays in place of moonlight. There was a new moon today, but quickly set. I am no thief, no highway man to plague a traveler at night. A lover I am. And those in love must be helped.

How sweet is the Shepherd's sweet lot! From the morn to the evening he stays; He shall follow his sheep all the day, And his tongue shall be filled with praise. For he hears the lambs' innocent call, And he hears the ewes' tender reply; He is watching while they are in peace, For they know when their Shepherd is nigh.

Before you were called to be a shepherd, you were called to be a lamb.

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

Of her scorn the maid repented, And the shepherd - of his love.

In other words Jesus went into the desert to confront His enemy and throw down the gauntlet. He would prove Himself to be the legitimate shepherd of Israel by overcoming the temptations that had undone all of Israel's previous kings, including His mighty ancestor, King David.

There was a shepherd that did live, And held his thoughts as high As were the mounts whereon his flocks Did hourly feed him by.

What should we think of the shepherd's life if his flocks always wandered to higher pastures than his thoughts?

They say travel enables you to encounter your opposite. If this is true, I think I may have met mine in a shepherd's hut in Transylvania.

I never have prayed to win a gold medal at Olympics and never will. The Lord is my Shepard and I shall not want. May His will be done.

Most men don't shepherd nations. God calls most men to be husbands and fathers and grandfathers. He calls them to shepherd their families.

The merest accident of microgeography had meant that the first man to hear the voice of Om, and who gave Om his view of humans, was a shepherd and not a goatherd. They have quite different ways of looking at the world, and the whole of history might have been different. For sheep are stupid, and have to be driven. But goats are intelligent, and need to be led.

A shepherd's crown, not a royal one. A crown for someone who knew where she had come from. A crown for the lone light zigzagging through the night sky, hunting for a single lost lamb. A crown for the shepherd who was there to herd away the predators.

Sheep are always looking for a new shepherd when the terrain gets rocky.

Since Yahweh was an eternal invisible spirit, unlike the finite visible pagan gods and their graven images, he was transcendent from his people and set apart. But also unlike the pagan idols, he was a shepherd and loving father who was very near and imminent with his people and set within.