Not only the bull attacks his enemies with curved horn, but also the sheep, when harmed fights back.
We need more people speaking out. This country is not overrun with rebels and free thinkers. It's overrun with sheep and conformists.
In levying taxes and in shearing sheep, it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.
And who is so barbarous as not to understand that the foot of a man is nobler than his shoe, and his skin nobler than that of the sheep with which he is clothed.
Jesus. . . HIS sheep, they know His voice and they follow Him whether you disciple them or not!
God has not abandoned us any more than he abandoned Job. He never abandons anyone on whom he has set his love; nor does Christ, the good shepherd, ever lose track of his sheep.
We are creators, and yet we naively play the role of "the created. " We see ourselves as helpless sheep buffeted around by the God who made us. We kneel like frightened children, begging for help, for forgiveness, for good luck. But once we realize that we are truly created in the Creator's image, we will start to understand that we, too, must be Creators. When we understand this fact, the doors will burst wide open for human potential.
I find her anecdotes more efficacious than sheep-counting, rain on a tin roof, or alanol tablets. . . . you will find me and Morpheus, off in a corner, necking.
He looked beyond. He looked to the peoples of the Earth and saw the destruction of the family because of the lack of children. Paul VI was courageous. He was a good pastor. He warned his sheep about the wolves that were approaching, and from the heavens he blesses us today.
Quality is better seen up at the timberline than here obscured by smoky windows and oceans of words, and he sees that what he is talking about can never really be accepted here because to see it one has to be free of social authority and this is an institution of social authority. Quality for sheep is what the shepherd says. And if you take a sheep and put it up at the timberline at night when the wind is roaring, that sheep will be panicked half to death and will call and call until the shepherd comes, or comes the wolf.
If Someone wants a sheep, then that means that he exists.
It would be equally reasonable to say that sheep are born carnivorous, and everywhere nibble grass.
I sleep better at night knowing that scientists can clone sheep.
The pastor ought to have two voices: one, for gathering the sheep; and another, for warding off and driving away wolves and thieves. The Scripture supplies him with the means of doing both.
Joining a sub-culture, any sub-culture, for whatever reason, is as I see it never a legitimate self-expression. It is always a result of sheep mentality; a wish to belong somewhere.