Quotes About Flock

It is the duty of a shepherd to know the state of his flock; and unless he do so he will never feed them profitably.

Christian leaders are not Jesus' top generals. They are under-shepherds helping the flock enjoy and feed on God, out of which flows firm and secure faith: 'Not that we lord it over your faith, but we work with you for your joy, because it is by faith you stand firm' (2 Corinthians 1:24).

It's the flock, the grove, that matters. Our responsibility is to species, not to specimens; to communities, not to individuals.

good and bad!!..we always get mixed with the real truths and paths concerning this two with fanaticism and hypocrisy. till darkness envelopes and you awaken to the father to learn about the real truths. but I pray ye to desire to be with his flock or face condemnation....just do what thou wilt ,conscience and his laws being your compass!!

The genesis of my coat, made from fine wool, spinning backwards through the looms, onto the body of a lamb, a black sheep a bit apart from the flock, grazing on the side of a hill. A lamb opening its eyes to the clouds that resemble for a moment the woolly backs of his own kind.

I do not, of course, propose to neglect the sick, the feeble or the unfortunate," wrote Galton, "but I would exact an equivalent for the charitable assistance they receive by preventing the more faulty members of the flock from breeding." Galton argued that lunatics, criminals, and paupers should be placed in monasteries and convents "for the purpose of restricting their opportunities for producing low-class offspring." Breeding had become weeding.

Abraham separated seven ewe lambs from the flock,

Go out to the flock and bring me two choice young goats, so that I can make them into a tasty dish for your father—the kind he loves.

He looked and saw a well in the field, and near it lay three flocks of sheep, because the sheep were watered from this well. And a large stone covered the mouth of the well.

But they replied, “We cannot, until all the flocks have been gathered and the stone has been rolled away from the mouth of the well. Then we will water the sheep.”

Whenever the stronger females of the flock were in heat, Jacob would place the branches in the troughs, in full view of the animals, so that they would breed in front of the branches.

If he said, ëThe speckled will be your wages,í then the whole flock bore speckled offspring. If he said, ëThe streaked will be your wages,í then the whole flock bore streaked offspring.

ëLook up,í he said, ëand see that all the males that are mating with the flock are streaked, spotted, or speckled; for I have seen all that Laban has done to you.

This is the account of Jacob. When Joseph was seventeen years old, he was tending the flock with his brothers, the sons of his fatherís wives Bilhah and Zilpah, and he brought their father a bad report about them.

Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came to draw water and fill the troughs to water their fatherís flock.

And when some shepherds came along and drove them away, Moses rose up to help them and watered their flock.

“An Egyptian rescued us from the shepherds,” they replied. “He even drew water for us and watered the flock.”

Meanwhile, Moses was shepherding the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. He led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.

“Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When any of you brings an offering to the LORD, you may bring as your offering an animal from the herd or the flock.

They send forth their little ones like a flock; their children skip about,

Your flock settled therein; O God, from Your bounty You provided for the poor.

You led Your people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

For the choirmaster. To the tune of “The Lilies of the Covenant.” A Psalm of Asaph. Hear us, O Shepherd of Israel, who leads Joseph like a flock; You who sit enthroned between the cherubim, shine forth

If you do not know, O fairest of women, follow the tracks of the flock, and graze your young goats near the tents of the shepherds.