Quotes about Shepherd

For Israel is as obstinate as a stubborn heifer. Can the LORD now shepherd them like lambs in an open meadow?

For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Behold, I Myself will search for My flock and seek them out.

He tends His flock like a shepherd; He gathers the lambs in His arms and carries them close to His heart. He gently leads the nursing ewes.

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.

The star that bids the shepherd fold.

Then I said, “I will no longer shepherd you. Let the dying die, and the perishing perish; and let those who remain devour one another’s flesh.”

Even in times past, while Saul was king, you were the one who led Israel out and brought them back. And the LORD your God said, ‘You will shepherd My people Israel, and you will be ruler over them.’”

The Roman church's unmistakable claim is that there is only one church and only one faith and that Christendom needs a visible head, a chief shepherd, to guide the church and to care for the faithful with fatherly care. The longing for a lost Western empire, longing for the corpus christianum in which emperor and pope together are guardians of the unity of the Christian West, cannot fade away as long as there is a papacy.

Ps 23:1...So, if the Lord is my shepherd, I shall not become empty. I shall not live in a constant state of disappointment where circumstances drain me dry... How do I let the Lord shepherd me so the gap between my expectations and reality closes? (p. 115-6)

A Psalm of David. The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.

No, he joins the three Persons in the one work of blessing — God the Father, God the Shepherd, and the Angel.

The Lord is my shepherd and nothing is wanting to me. In green pastures He hath settled me.