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“No ruler can ever get far with only militaristic power. The easiest way to conquer is to crush people’s faith and convert them to your own ideology, often portraying it as heroic. I am an ambitious man â€� I am not just a casual pirate to steal only people’s riches. I am an emperor â€� I shall steal people’s hearts, hopes, and faith so that they will eventually have no one but me to turn to. If you put yourself in the role of a saviour, people are sure to follow you, just like a pack of lambs always follows a mighty shepherd.”
― Tamuna Tsertsvadze, Galaxy Pirates

“Pretend that you're a clever shepherd girl, and you're just dressed up in pretty clothes, and you're trying to make everybody believe that you're a spoiled, empty-headed little princess. So no one guesses that under your clothes you're a brave shepherd girl who climbs trees and chases away wolves with your staff.”
― Johanna Sinisalo, The Core of the Sun

“Man is the shepherd of Being. Man loses nothing in this "less"; rather, he gains in that he attains the truth of Being. He gains the essential poverty of the shepherd, whose dignity consists in being called by Being itself into the preservation of Being's truth. The call comes as the throw from which the thrownness of Da-sein derives. In his essential unfolding within the history of Being, man is the being whose Being as ek-sistence consists in his dwelling in the nearness of Being. Man is the neighbor of Being.”
― Martin Heidegger, Basic Writings

“When it comes to a showdown between the shepherd and the wolf, the shepherd will always prevail. The wolf's speed, brute strength and cunning may give him a brief advantage, but in the end, the shepherd's genius and organisation will triumph every time. Be therefore wary off the Shepard, more than of the wolf.”
― Isaiah Senones

“We are living in a fear epidemic, stoked in part by a 24/7 media that makes tragedies from around the world seem part of our everyday experience, or makes a global pandemic appear to be crouching at our door. We live in a time of great uncertainty, when important things that we once thought we could rely upon, like a job for life, have been taken from us. Perhaps not since World War II has a generation been exposed to such uncertainty and fear. The causes may be different, but the effects can be the same. In such a time as this, if you want to live your life free from fear then remind yourself, every day, that your shepherd is with you, every step of the way. Trust in him, your shepherd is with you always, and he is mighty to save.”
― David Knott, The Psalm 23 Life: Experiencing the Love of God Every Day

“Nobody can return to you something that was never yours, to begin with. Let’s trace back to the history of your race: the humans were made for slavery and were found faulty for that purpose. They showed immense energy and willpower only when confronted against tremendous obstacles with no weapons in their hands. With those bare hands, and the wits that exceeded even those of their creators and equalled the ones of mighty gods, they could break mountains. Once the humans earned at least a bit of benevolence from their creators, though, they’d immediately turn into lazy drunkards feasting upon the luxuries of life. They were quite haughty creatures, at that â€� one could never make them work without posing a certain purpose before their eyes. They should be given an aim they approved of, or else, they’d move no finger! Yet, if such necessities were met, they’d begin to loaf around. Forbidding them to taste those luxuries? Nay, they obeyed not! Hence, their creators cast them down on Earth â€� a planet inhabited by many other faulty experiments of different alien species, so that their lives would end. Yet even here, the humans defied their creators â€� instead of dying out, they adapted to the environment they were cast in, due to their boundless wits and the unexplainable willpower that no other species could ever possess. They mated the local species whom they could more or less find a common language with, killed off the obstacles, and conquered the planet as their own. The conquering ambitions of their creators, the boundless wisdom of their gods, and the primal instincts of Earthly nature â€� all of it meddled in these extraordinary creatures. They were full of instability, unpredictability, wild dreams, and rotten primitivism. Which side they would develop, depended entirely upon their choice. Aye, they had proven faulty to their creators, yet had attained the perfect treasure they required â€� the freedom. Could they make use of it? â€� Nay, certainly notâ€� at least not many of them. There are certain individuals among the human race, who are able to well balance their mixed-up nature and grow into worthy people that merit our godly benevolence. However, most of them are quite an interesting bunch whom an ambitious man like me can make good use of. I am half-human with godly and angelic descendance, so I guess, I am worthy to be their sole ruler, their only saviour, their treasured shepherdâ€� The shepherds too make use of their sheep â€� they guide them, then to consume some of them for wool and meat. Shepherds do not help the sheep for granted â€� they use their potential to its fullest. I shall be the same kind of a god â€� I shall help these magnificent creatures to achieve the wildest of their dreams but will use their powers for my own benefit. These poor creatures cannot define their potential alone, they cannot decide what’s the best and the fittest for them! I can achieve that. Free human souls? â€� Nay, they need no freedom. What they need, is to serve the rightful master, and that rightful master I shall be.”
― Tamuna Tsertsvadze, Galaxy Pirates

“The question is not “How am I to find God?â€� but “How am I to let myself be found by him?â€�. God is not the patriarch who stays home, doesn’t move, and expects his children to come to him, apologize for their aberrant behavior, beg for forgiveness, and promise to do better. To the contrary, he leaves the house, ignoring his dignity by running toward them, pays no heed to apologies and promises of change, and brings them to the table. When I look through God’s eyes at my lost self and discover God’s joy at my coming home, then my life may become less anguished and more trusting.”
― Henri J.M. Nouwen, The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming

“The mere presence of the shepherd puts the sheep at peace. When he is near, they don't panic, and they don't fight. They can lay down in peaceful slumber. It's the same with you and me. Nothing reduces stress like the presence of the Shepherd. When you are living in close connection to Jesus, you can sleep, you can relax, you can rest.”
― James Collins, The Shepherd

“A sinner needs a Saviour. Just like a lost sheep needs a shepherd.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“I had to do something, not to be bored.”
― Petra Hermans

“Shepherds also need shepherds simply because everyone needs to be guided, may be not always but surely one day!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“A good shepherd is not afraid of the storm for himself, but for the herd!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Of all the sermons that I heard at church growing up, I can’t remember a single message that was preached in any of them. But I can certainly remember the people who preached them.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If a dog manages and directs a thousand sheep, it is not because of the genius of the dog, but because of the sheep's folly!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Despite my arrogance, I have finally realized that I am the one lost sheep. And to somehow think that I’m the shepherd is to stay lost by pretending to be what I’m not, because I’ve chosen to live in denial of who I am.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Jesus Christ, the Saviour is my Shepherd.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“One spirit, one shepherd”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“The good shepherd saves his sheep.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Your mind is your shepherd and if you have a wise shepherd, you shall be safe throughout your life!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“To remember the nature, spend a day with a shepherd; to remember yourself, spend a day with nature!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“A sheep who teaches something to the shepherd is no more a sheep but a teacher!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“If a shepherd needs a shepherd for himself, then the herd of that shepherd is in danger!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“The Sovereign LORD is my Shepherd, I shall not be in want.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Without a Shepherd, the sheep will go astray.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“The Shepherd DOES NOT use the rod to strike the sheep but guides them with it. However, the Shepherd will use the rod to strike the wolf to protect the sheep. Likewise, parents must gently guide their children like a shepherd, distinguishing that they are like sheep and not wolves.”
― Shaun Brooks

“Parar l'orella al silenci és descobrir com n'arriba a ser de rar. Sempre hi ha alguna cosa que es mou (â€�). Aquesta mena de silenci no és una negació del so. El món s'hi queda suspès i jo a dins.”
― Nan Shepherd

“I think about how the Lord never sleeps nor slumbers as He watches over us. When I lie across the door of the sheep pen to guard the sheep, I remember that He is my protection.”
― Emmanuel Onimisi, The Faces of Christmas

“…because life is the moment we’re living right now.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“Becoming a shepherd is prestigious if your herd is the human race.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“The wolf does not need a shepherd; the shepherd is the fate of the weak!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan