Rumi
Poet, Philosopher
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone's soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd."
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Shepherds
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Martin Heidegger
Philosopher
"The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being."
Thomas Merton
Writer, Monk
"There were only a few shepherds at the first Bethlehem. The ox and the donkey understood more of the first Christmas than the high priests in Jerusalem. And it is the same today."
Christopher Hitchens
Author, Critic, Journalist
"Shepherds don't look after sheep because they love them - although I do think some shepherds like their sheep too much. They look after their sheep so they can, first, fleece them and second, turn them into meat. That's much more like the priesthood as I know it."
Martin Luther
Theologian
"A preacher must be both soldier and shepherd. He must nourish, defend, and teach; he must have teeth in his mouth, and be able to bite and fight."
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"Quit acting like a wolf, and feel the shepherd's love filling you."
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"The church is not a campus but a community. Pastors are not CEOs; they are shepherds."
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"Mr. Shepherd, ye cannot stop a bad thought from coming into your head. But ye need not pull up a chair and bide it sit down." - Mrs. Brown"
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"Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers."
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"One could almost phrase the motto of our modern civilization thus: Science is my shepherd; I shall not want."
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"No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse."
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"While shepherds watch'd their flocks by night, All seated on the ground, The Angel of the Lord came down, And Glory shone around."
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"As a leader... I have always endeavored to listen to what each and every person in a discussion had to say before venturing my own opinion. Oftentimes, my own opinion will simply represent a consensus of what I heard in the discussion. I always remember the axiom; a leader is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind."
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"Peoples will be as before, the sheep sent to the slaughterhouses or to the meadows as it pleases the shepherds"
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"Shepherds at the grange, Where the Babe was born, Sang with many a change, Christmas carols until morn."
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"I find that I sent wolves not shepherds to govern Ireland, for they have left me nothing but ashes and carcasses to reign over!"
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"The only gift is a portion of thyself . . . the poet brings his poem; the shepherd his lamb. . . ."
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"I was named after the next-door neighbor's German shepherd. It was either that or Cadillac Smith."
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"International institutions ought to be, as the national ones in democratic countries, established by the peoples and for the peoples"
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"I love dogs. I grew up with dogs in my family from the time that I was a little boy; we always had German Shepherds and Labradors. I get on very well with dogs, they trust me."
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"Mantua gave me birth, Calabri snatched me away, now Parthenope holds me; I sang of shepherds, pastures, and heroes. -Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope, cecini pascua, rura, duces"
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"Pity those who seek for shepherds, instead of longing for freedom!"
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"The old shepherd was right: The only solution was to forget a part of uncertainty and create a new history for oneself."
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"Every second of the search is an encounter with God. When I have been truly searching for my treasure, every day has been luminous...I've discovered things along the way that I never would have seen had I not had the courage to try things that seemed impossible for a shepherd to achieve."
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"It was shepherds who were the first to recognize a king that the rest of the world refused to acknowledge."
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