Sentences with phrase «of sheep without a shepherd»

Winston Churchill once said, «Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd.

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He wept at the sight of people who were «like sheep without a shepherd.»

Finally consider what is said about Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew: Jesus looked and had compassion on the crowd, because he saw that they were harassed, as sheep without a shepherd.

He had compassion for the thousands of people who were lost and wandering like sheep without a shepherd.

Thus they arrived ahead of Jesus and the disciples; but although his attempt to find solitude had failed, «he had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd; and he began to teach them many things» (Mk 6:34; Mt 14:14; cf. 9:36; Lk 9:11).

They are to go to «the lost sheep of the house of Israel,» those same «sheep without a shepherd» upon whom Jesus has compassion.

That kind of blows apart the old «sheep and shepherd» story that most Christians believe without question and which most pastors love to toss out at their «stupid sheep» languishing in the pews.

Here we have seven loaves instead of five, 4,000 instead of 5,000, compassion because of the people's hunger here, compassion because they are like sheep without a shepherd in the earlier narrative.

The charge which tries to divide the confessors of the faith or guides of the flock from the general assembly of God's people, so that the latter become as sheep without a shepherd and as men carried about with every wind of doctrine, is remarkably successful even to our own day.

Because our God is a tender shepherd to His sheep, who binds the wounds of the hurt, the lonely and castaways, BUT also, He is the fierce judge to those who have done evil, without caring whom they hurt, and in not repenting of it....