There is one fold and one shepherd.
It is written that there shall be a separation, and the sheep shall be separated from the goats. The other preachers have the sheep; I have the goats. And I have a few sheep among my goats, but they are very ragged.
The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
Grant that we may be one flock and one shepherd.
Without the shepherd's dog, the whole of the open mountainous land in Scotland would not be worth a sixpence.
To be a good shepherd is to shear the flock, not skin it!
It is the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not to skin it.
I am only a sparrow amongst a great flock of sparrows.
I believe that every Christian ought to be joined to some visible church; that is his plain duty, according to the Scriptures. God’s people are not dogs, else they might go about one by one; but they are sheep, and therefore they should be in flocks.
Every bird dwells with its own kind.
Nor were the laity only guilty of these things, but even our Lord’s own flock, with its shepherds, casting off the easy yoke of Christ, gave themselves up to drunkenness, enmity, quarrels, strife, envy, and other such sins
The wild gander leads his flock through the cool night, Ya-honk! he says, and sounds it down to me like an invitation: The pert may suppose it meaningless, but I listen closer, I find its purpose and place up there toward the November sky.
Beyond individual intelligence, nature has also cultivated intelligence through swarms. For example, bees, birds and fish act in a more intelligent way when acting together as a swarm, flock or school.
Time for bed.” I held my fist out. One by one, my flock stacked theirs on top, and then we headed up into the trees to sleep the sleep of the innocent. Well, okay, maybe not so innocent. But the sleep of the much less guilty than others, for sure.
A person has to be by himself a little bit. We weren’t born in a flock. Togetherness drives me out of my mind.
Listen up,” I said urgently. “It’s time to round up your gear. I’m gonna check in with Patrick, and then we’re getting the flock out of here.” Ha-ha.
The body is a big sagacity, a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace, a flock and a shepherd.
Sheep may not be brilliant, but they know that sheep in pen is stage number one of lamb chops.
… shepherds of the lost
A flock of blessings light upon thy back
Tis a dainty thing to command, though twere but a flock of sheep.
A Dominie in Gray-- Put gently up the evening Bars-- And led the flock away
Everything about Christianity is contained in the pathetic image of 'the flock.
There are two kinds of leaders: those who are interested in the flock, and those who are interested in the fleece.
Each time I caught sight of geese swooping in formation across the sky, I wondered how our life below might look from their perspective, and imagined that, were they ever to indulge in such speculation, the high-rises might seem to them like firs massed in a grove.
