Too many leaders act as if the sheep... their people... are there for the benefit of the shepherd, not that the shepherd has responsibility for the sheep.
Too many leaders act as if the sheep... their people... are there for the benefit of the shepherd, not that the shepherd has responsibility for the sheep.
The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
I'm a shepherd, not a sheep, and I've always prided myself on being a leader and not a follower.
The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.
If so many Americans are looking for the government to save them, then it is hard to have a dignified search for a shepherd in chief.
Man is not the lord of beings. Man is the shepherd of Being.
The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious, and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones.
We were looking for a 'good shepherd,' and instead we got a German shepherd.
I have a responsibility to nurture and shepherd my talent and when I'm living the parts of my life not related to that I feel I have the right to be left alone.
Before I had crossed the threshold of my church I was made to realize that I was shepherd of a divided flock.
The Lord is my Shepherd and he knows I'm gay.
The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.
Careless shepherd make excellent dinner for wolf.
A shepherd may be a very able, trusty, and good shepherd, without a sweetheart - better, perhaps, than with one. But what is he without his dog?
It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them.
© 2020 Inspirational Stories
© 2020 Inspirational Stories