Remember that God under the Law ordained a Lamb to be offered up to Him every Morning and Evening.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It's long been a cliche in Washington that if you hang a lamb chop in your window, guests will come.
I must be informed, that one of my great duties was, to obey the priests in all things; and this I soon learnt, to my utter astonishment and horror, was to live in the practice of criminal intercourse with them.
In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.
I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant instead of my master.
In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.
The Lord can give, and the Lord can take away. I might be herding sheep next year.
It is written that there shall be a separation, and the sheep shall be separated from the goats. The other preachers have the sheep; I have the goats. And I have a few sheep among my goats, but they are very ragged.
Exhort all your household often that all those who serve you shall know to serve God and you, faithfully and painstakingly, and for the will of God to prefer in all things to do your will and pleasure in all things that are not against God.
God sendeth and giveth both mouth and meat.
It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them.