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I'm a sheep wearing wolves' clothing in a pack of wolves.
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Pierce Brown (Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1))
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Having a relationship with people of questionable character is like playing with a razor blade on your skin, and pretending to observe that it is harmful to your body.
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Michael Bassey Johnson
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A company of wolves, is better than a company of wolves in sheep's clothing.
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Anthony Liccione
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I hope you haven't given up on the S.Q.'s of the world, Reynie. As you see, there are a great many sheep in wolves' clothing. If not for S.Q.'s good nature, we'd never have escaped.
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Trenton Lee Stewart (The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey (The Mysterious Benedict Society, #2))
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Be careful of who becomes your friend and why. The person who will bite off your lips one day will have to first promise you a kiss today. Be careful of hypocrites.
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Israelmore Ayivor (Daily Drive 365)
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You will never have to question the intentions or integrity of people who have your best interest at heart.
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Germany Kent
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I’m a sheep wearing wolves’ clothing in a pack of wolves.
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Pierce Brown (Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1))
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You meet many wolves in sheep’s clothing;
you are prey until they find out
you have the heart of a lion.
You meet many snakes in the grass;
you are in danger until you burn
the plain in which they hide.
Worse than a hostile enemy
is an accomplished, secret one.
Worse than a foolish superior
is an impenitent, arrogant one.
Worse than a sage's rebuke
is life's chastisement.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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My colleagues and I feel that independents like ElfQuest are nothing but sheep in wolves' clothing."- S. Lee
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Robert Lynn Asprin (Myth-ing Persons (Myth Adventures, #5))
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Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
- MATTHEW 7:15
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S.G. Holster (Terrible Lies (Thirty Seconds To Die, book 2))
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If someone in your circle cannot congratulate you on your success, heed the warning and distance yourself from that person because they are not for you.
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Germany Kent
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Just like the way you date in relationship and become convinced before you give a partner your heart, you got to date your PASTOR to know he can be your MENTOR before you give him your ears! Test the Spirits...and don't be a religious fanatic!
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Israelmore Ayivor
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Pay attention to what people do as opposed to what they say. Some people say they are for you but when trouble comes their actions say otherwise.
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Germany Kent
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Sometimes wolves come in sheep's clothing." —Fenris Vane The
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Karpov Kinrade (Vampire Girl (Vampire Girl, #1))
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Now I don't know much about finances, but I do know not to trust these smooth-faced wolves in sheep’s clothing. We trust these confidence tricksters because they know best, right? They'll be able to advise us, won't they? Yeah, they know best all right. They throw legal dust in our eyes, always keeping something back and dressing up their untruths with promises and alluring pound-note signs. But all the time they're making a killing out of us. A FUCKING KILLING!
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Karl Wiggins (100 Common Sense Policies to make BRITAIN GREAT again)
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It is the moral anesthetic of our day to ask God and our friends to only understand our sin from our point of view. This mind-set of seeing sin from a personal point of view has led to, at best, weak Christians crippled by sin and untouched by gospel power, or at worst, wolves in sheep’s clothing who hunker down with offices in the church, teaching feeble sheep a perverted catechism, one that renders sin grace and grace sin, one that confuses doubt with intelligence and skepticism with renewed hope. When we live by the belief that sin is best discerned from our own point of view, we cannot help but to develop a theology of excuse-righteousness. We become anesthetized to the reality of our own sin. One consequence of this moral anesthesia is the belief that you are in good standing with God if you give to him what the desires of your flesh can spare. But sin, biblically rendered, is both a crime and a disease, requiring both the law of God and his grace to apply it for true help.
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Rosaria Champagne Butterfield (Openness Unhindered: Further Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert on Sexual Identity and Union with Christ)
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People love you until you become their competition.
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Germany Kent
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A person's actions will tell you all that you need to know.
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Germany Kent
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Beware of false prophets, †who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.
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Anonymous (Holy Bible, New King James Version)
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One may howl with the wolves, if need be, but when doing so, one should be, I would urge, a sheep in wolf’s clothing.
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Viktor E. Frankl (Man’s Search for Meaning)
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Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are kravenous wolves. 16You will recognize them lby their fruits.
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Anonymous (Holy Bible: English Standard Version (ESV))
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7:15
Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but underneath are ravenous wolves
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Matthew (The Gospel According to Matthew, Tr., by W.J. Aislabie)
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Once you find out that a person is a gossiper, the best thing you can do is limit your conversations with them.
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Germany Kent
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You are not required to retaliate against people who do you wrong. Release the anger, forgive them, and move on so that your life can be made better.
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Germany Kent
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Even the ones we least expect can be wolves in sheep’s clothing.
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Shad'e Zuiweta (In The Depths of Fear (Book not available))
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I used to like wolves; they always arrived so
Punctually in sheep's clothing at the mortuary
To be prepared for burial by my father who
Showered his wrath on my mother with blows
From his fists at night; this warrior, this Lord
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Abigail George (Feeding The Beasts)
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Beware of the false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves. 16You will know them by their fruits. Grapes are not gathered from thorn bushes nor figs from thistles, are they? 17So every good tree bears good fruit, but the bad tree bears bad fruit. 18A good tree cannot produce bad fruit, nor can a bad tree produce good fruit. 19Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20So then, you will know them by their fruits.
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Anonymous (New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (Without Translators' Notes))
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Dawa is happening not only in Muslim communities but also in Western prisons. Believing that religious education will benefit prisoners, the authorities mistakenly give agents of dawa access to Muslim prisoners. Like wolves in sheep’s clothing, they claim to be religious community representatives, all the while harboring links to terrorist organizations such as the Muslim Brotherhood, ISIS, and Hizb ut-Tahrir.
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali (Prey: Immigration, Islam, and the Erosion of Women's Rights)
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I believe that the Salafi slogan of “Follow the Daleel from Quran and Sunnah” is used or abused (inadvertently or not) to sever the link we Muslims have with the four great schools of thought. With-out a common thread, we don’t have a leg to stand on and we become vulnerable to manipulative sharks who would wish to steer our youth to devilish fanatic groups like ISIS. A Muslim, who adheres to one of the madhabs, will have the correct understanding of the Islamic creed and will not be lured with empty slogans by the wolves in sheep’s clothing.
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Sadi Kose (Salafism: Just Another Madhab or Following the “Daleel”?)
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The radical wolves in sheep’s clothing fall into two categories. First are the Crypto-Marxists, calling themselves radical feminists, post-structuralists, post-modernists, or merely progressives, whose agendas remain totalitarian. Then come the Fellow-Travelling Liberals, who acknowledge the bankruptcy of socialism and make a grudging commitment to free markets, but who still do not want to give up the agenda of “social justice”—the idea that government can arrive at a standard of what is just, and that the state can implement such a standard without destroying economic and political freedom.
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David Horowitz (The Black Book of the American Left: The Collected Conservative Writings of David Horowitz (My Life and Times 1))
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Let priests take care not to accept from the liberal any ideas which, under the mask of good, pretend to reconcile justice with iniquity. Liberal Catholics are wolves in sheep’s clothing. The priest must unveil to the people their perfidious plot, their iniquitous design. You will be called papist, clerical, RETROGRADE, intolerant. But pay no heed to the derision and mockery of the wicked. Have courage. You must never yield, nor is there any need to yield. You must go into the attack whole-heartedly, not in secret but in public, not behind barred doors, but in the open, in view of all.” —Bishop Sarto (later Pope Pius X).
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Timothy J. Gordon (Rules for Retrogrades: Forty Tactics to Defeat the Radical Left)
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Doubts, then. “I’m not--”
“No,” he growled. “You don’t get to say that. You don't get to say you're not anything.”
Of course he knew. Those residual fears that I couldn’t ever be rid of, a holdover from when I didn’t think I’d amount to much. Maybe I could see now that I meant something to someone. Or someones. Maybe I could see it in their eyes when they looked at me. But that didn’t mean I didn't feel like I was still a kid playing dress-up. Or a sheep in wolves’ clothing. It was a mask, this thing I was, and I wore it well.
Funny thing was, I almost believed it.
“Ox,” Joe said, sounding frustrated. “How can you not see it?
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T.J. Klune (Wolfsong (Green Creek, #1))
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What I realized is that God used a bearded, animal-skin-wearing, locust-eating wild man to prepare the way for His Son’s ministry to the people on earth. But John the Baptist didn’t look religious in any way. God told Samuel in 1 Samuel 16:7, “Man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.” It is the heart of a man that counts; the beard, in my opinion, is the exclamation point. If you believe a man’s heart is right and his spiritual qualities are good, why would you judge him based on how much he shaves his face? As it says in Matthew 7:15, “Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves.” After I thought about that, I decided I would rather be a sheep in wolves’ clothing than vice versa, you know?
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Jase Robertson (Good Call: Reflections on Faith, Family, and Fowl)
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This mere political Priesthood are the agents of Satan to enslave mankind; the most wicked and remorseless Tyrants of the Earth have found it impossible to enslave man by any other means but by uniting with such Priests—with their aid the most sacred rights of man have been easily seized. These men have wickedly instructed their dupes that God required of man passive obedience to the most bloody and savage Tyrants, thus have they profaned Religion, (which is intended to bless mankind, both here & hereafter) to the vile purpose of Slavery and Misery. A union of Church with State is more destructive to the happiness of man than any other conspiracy since the first Apostacy and union of fallen Angels. True Christians have but one opinion of those Priests who wickedly prate about a union of Church and State—they believe them to be only wolves in sheep’s clothing; they are mere Hirelings; they have no call to preach the Gospel except what they fancy they derive from a College education
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Chris Rodda (From Theocracy To Religious Liberty: Connecticut’s Journey from Thomas Jefferson’s “Wall of Separation” Letter to a State Constitution, as Told Through the Newspapers of the Time)
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It soon became apparent to me that deniers were a new type of neo-Nazi. Unlike previous generations of neo-Nazis—people who celebrated Hitler’s birthday, sported SS-like uniforms, and hung swastikas at meetings where they would give the Sieg Heil salute—this group eschewed all that.5 They were wolves in sheep’s clothing. They didn’t bother with the physical trappings of Nazism—salutes, songs, and banners—but proclaimed themselves “revisionists”—serious scholars who simply wished to revise “mistakes” in the historical record, to which end they established an impressive-sounding organization—the Institute for Historical Review—and created a benign-sounding publication—the Journal for Historical Review.6 Nothing in these names suggested the revisionists’ real agenda. They held conferences that, at first blush, seemed to be the most mundane academic confabs. But a close inspection of their publications and conference programs revealed the same extremism, adulation of the Third Reich, antisemitism, and racism as the swastika-waving neo-Nazis. This was extremism posing as rational discourse.
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Deborah E. Lipstadt (Antisemitism: Here and Now)
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In 1995, the gray wolf was reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park after a seventy-year hiatus. Scientists expected an ecological ripple effect, but the size and scope of the trophic cascade took them by surprise.7 Wolves are predators that kill certain species of animals, but they indirectly give life to others. When the wolves reentered the ecological equation, it radically changed the behavioral patterns of other wildlife. As the wolves began killing coyotes, the rabbit and mouse populations increased, thereby attracting more hawks, weasels, foxes, and badgers. In the absence of predators, deer had overpopulated the park and overgrazed parts of Yellowstone. Their new traffic patterns, however, allowed the flora and fauna to regenerate. The berries on those regenerated shrubs caused a spike in the bear population. In six years’ time, the trees in overgrazed parts of the park had quintupled in height. Bare valleys were reforested with aspen, willow, and cottonwood trees. And as soon as that happened, songbirds started nesting in the trees. Then beavers started chewing them down. Beavers are ecosystem engineers, building dams that create natural habitats for otters, muskrats, and ducks, as well as fish, reptiles, and amphibians. One last ripple effect. The wolves even changed the behavior of rivers—they meandered less because of less soil erosion. The channels narrowed and pools formed as the regenerated forests stabilized the riverbanks. My point? We need wolves! When you take the wolf out of the equation, there are unintended consequences. In the absence of danger, a sheep remains a sheep. And the same is true of men. The way we play the man is by overcoming overwhelming obstacles, by meeting daunting challenges. We may fear the wolf, but we also crave it. It’s what we want. It’s what we need. Picture a cage fight between a sheep and a wolf. The sheep doesn’t stand a chance, right? Unless there is a Shepherd. And I wonder if that’s why we play it safe instead of playing the man—we don’t trust the Shepherd. Playing the man starts there! Ecologists recently coined a wonderful new word. Invented in 2011, rewilding has a multiplicity of meanings. It’s resisting the urge to control nature. It’s the restoration of wilderness. It’s the reintroduction of animals back into their natural habitat. It’s an ecological term, but rewilding has spiritual implications. As I look at the Gospels, rewilding seems to be a subplot. The Pharisees were so civilized—too civilized. Their religion was nothing more than a stage play. They were wolves in sheep’s clothing.8 But Jesus taught a very different brand of spirituality. “Foxes have dens and birds have nests,” said Jesus, “but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.”9 So Jesus spent the better part of three years camping, fishing, and hiking with His disciples. It seems to me Jesus was rewilding them. Jesus didn’t just teach them how to be fishers of men. Jesus taught them how to play the man! That was my goal with the Year of Discipleship,
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Mark Batterson (Play the Man: Becoming the Man God Created You to Be)
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Meanwhile, the constant pressure of Islam was becoming an increasing danger for Europe, and Hungary was in the forefront of the fight; yet this did not awaken the Catholic countries to see the folly of destroying a barrier between them and their most dangerous foe, and the Pope wrote (1325) to the Ban of Bosnia: “Knowing that thou art a faithful son of the Church, we therefore charge thee to exterminate the heretics in thy dominions, and to render aid and assistance unto Fabian, our Inquisitor, forasmuch as a large multitude of heretics from many and divers parts collected, have flowed together into the Principality of Bosnia, trusting there to sow their obscene errors and to dwell there in safety. These men, imbued with the cunning of the Old Fiend, and armed with the venom of their falseness, corrupt the minds of Catholics by outward show of simplicity and lying assumption of the name of Christians; their speech crawleth like a crab, and they creep in with humility, but in secret they kill, and are wolves in sheep’s clothing, covering their bestial fury as a means whereby they may deceive the simple sheep of Christ.
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E.H. Broadbent (The Pilgrim Church: Being Some Account of the Continuance Through Succeeding Centuries of Churches Practising the Principles Taught and Exemplified in The New Testament)
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Watch out: the sheep in wolves clothes!
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Lailah Gifty Akita
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A sheep in wolves clothing!
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Lailah Gifty Akita
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Baldwin dreamed of wolves dressed in sheep’s clothing, and woke intrigued. What an odd dream to have. He showered, shaved, placed a quick call to Taylor and made his way from the room. As he shut the door behind himself, he saw Grimes hustling toward him, beckoning with one hand. Baldwin went to him, eyebrows raised. “What’s up?” “Missing persons report. From a neighboring town. Noble.” Wolves dressed in sheep’s clothing, indeed.
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J.T. Ellison (All The Pretty Girls (Taylor Jackson, #1))
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It carried with it the foul condemnatory stench of distorted ecclesial goodness perched high on top of its herd-climbing presumptuous mountain to peer down its nose on those beneath in self-adulation. What was striking in his adult reflection was that even the weakness of sheep could demand more than what someone was, for even wolves hide behind this wool clothing. It was clear the will to power could appear on this side of the aisle as well.
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Ulysses Smith, Lost in the Battle
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The higher I elevate, the more I see the hate.
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Germany Kent
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The enemy will use anybody to try to disrupt your peace.
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Germany Kent
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Be careful of keeping company with people who are always bragging on your accomplishments in public but rarely if ever compliment you or support your endeavors in private.
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Germany Kent
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The wrong messages can block your blessings. People who are at war with themselves cannot guide you. Some people can not see the calling on your life and will speak from their limited vision. Be careful who you are allowing to minister to you.
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Germany Kent
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Nevertheless, benign-looking, suavely religious emissaries of Satan are ordinary, not extraordinary. Redemptive history is full of them, and the Bible continually warns about such false teachers—savage wolves in sheep’s clothing, “false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ” (2 Corinthians 11:13).
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John F. MacArthur Jr. (Jesus Unleashed: A New Vision of the Bold Confrontations of Christ and Why They Matter)
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Even as we grieved for the passing of one pope, our minds and prayers were already turning to thoughts of the next. The Church was under siege from her secularist enemies from without and was being betrayed by the modernist fifth columnists from within. She was in need of a strong and faithful shepherd to protect the flock from the wolves outside her walls, baying for her blood, and the wolves in sheep’s clothing within her own ranks, betraying her with a kiss.
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Joseph Pearce (Benedict XVI: Defender of the Faith)
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One imagines that similar scenes of joy erupted throughout the world wherever two or three faithful Catholics gathered together. In contrast, the election of Ratzinger was greeted with grief and horror by those heretical theologians and cafeteria Catholics whose heresies and backsliding equivocations had been condemned by the new Pope during his many years as Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. As usual, these wolves in sheep’s clothing howled in unison with the wolves in the secular media, uniting themselves with the avowed enemies of the Church in their hatred of the hero of orthodoxy who had forced them into retreat during his years as John Paul II’s faithful and fearless servant. In the war of words that followed the Pope’s election, the enemies of orthodoxy decried the new German shepherd as “God’s Rottweiler.” Although the gentle and saintly Ratzinger did not deserve such an epithet, it is ironically apt that the wolves who would devour the flock should hate the Rottweiler who had courageously stopped them from doing so!
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Joseph Pearce (Benedict XVI: Defender of the Faith)
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Beware of wolves in sheep's clothing, for they will feed you delicious morsels that they may later feast upon your tender flesh.
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Michele Faison
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I am convinced that hundreds of religious leaders throughout the world today are servants not of God, but of the Antichrist. They are wolves in sheep’s clothing; they are tares instead of wheat.
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Billy Graham (Billy graham in quotes)
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Covetous friends are like wolves in sheep’s clothing.” Bernard Tristan Foong
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Young (Unbridled (A Harem Boy's Saga, #2))
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WOLVES IN SHEEP’S CLOTHING—I’VE MET THEM, AND SO HAVE YOU Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves. Matthew 7:15 Alaska has its wolves. You can’t miss them. They’re ferocious and deadly. But at least they’re obvious. Washington, D.C., has wolves, too, though they dress in sheep’s clothing—at least at election time. Still, if you watch long enough, and closely enough, you’ll catch them stripping off their disguising, flea-ridden wool and exposing their wolfish fangs. The media obviously push certain politicians to the forefront, and more often than not it’s the most liberal of the bunch. In other words, they’re pushing false prophets who want to sell you a bill of goods while they “fundamentally transform” our country. So do your own homework on candidates and issues, and investigate what’s beneath the sheep’s clothing. The voting record—and business record—of a politician will tell you a lot of what you need to know. We have a responsibility to elect leaders who will bear good fruit. That means we need to be wise in the voting booth. It means that if you vote for a liberal Democrat, don’t be surprised if he appoints an activist judge who overturns the will of the people, or if he hires left-leaning bureaucrats who regulate you out of basic constitutional rights. (And by the way, keep an eye on Republicans too: most of them need to get serious about out-of-control spending.) When you vote for politicians, think about the fullness of what they can do, how they will make decisions, how they will vote or lead. It’s a heavy responsibility—but it’s ours. SWEET FREEDOM IN Action Before any election, don’t listen to the mainstream media insisting you vote for their chosen one. Look out for false prophets, for wolves in sheep’s clothing. Inform yourself and make your decision—and remember that you are morally accountable for your vote.
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Sarah Palin (Sweet Freedom: A Devotional)
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We do not then reject good works; nay, we embrace them and teach them in the highest degree. It is not on their own account that we condemn them, but on account of this impious addition to them and the perverse notion of seeking justification by them. These things cause them to be only good in outward show, but in reality not good, since by them men are deceived and deceive others, like ravening wolves in sheep's clothing.
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Martin Luther (Concerning Christian Liberty)
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Beware, for even in the hallowed halls of worship, wolves in sheep's clothing lurk. Some priests, masquerading as servants of God, exploit their power to manipulate, harm, and deceive the faithful. Their actions are a betrayal of the trust placed in them, and a blasphemy against the divine. Let us not be fooled by their robes and rhetoric, but rather seek the truth and authenticity of spirit, for the true servants of God are those who serve with humility, compassion, and love.
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Shaila Touchton
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Wolves in sheep's clothing, they masquerade as brothers and sisters in Christ, but their hearts are far from Him. With smiles and scriptures, they deceive and manipulate, using God's name to justify their own selfish desires. Beware, dear believer, for not everyone who wears the label of Christian is true to the faith. Let discernment be your guide, and the Holy Spirit your protector, lest you fall prey to the schemes of those who would use God's grace for their own gain.
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Shaila Touchton
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No one preaches a forgiveness sermon better than an AME Zion preacher who is as wrong as mustard is on a banana. Throw the whole connection away.
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Niedria D. Kenny
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I know none of it was mine; not real. I had to found out for sure the hard way, and hindsight taught me that must have been true all along.
The only tangible was your 'mow down and drain' campaign, where you and your fam took turns fucking me. I suppose I always sensed it was like that. I was warned it was like that too. I wouldn't be surprised if every person you associate with is cultured the same way. It makes sense—'learn and burn' is the way our leaders rule. But you can only impact those foolish enough to fall for that trick. It's not so easy deceiving your own kind, is it? Wolves in sheep's clothing, all of you. You should be grateful that I am not like you.
I don't have any relations with my fam or anyone anymore, and the only two have severe dementia and alzeimers-not that that changed anything. I literally have nothing left. You did a wonderful job helping me realize the world in a whole new light; unlivable. Great leader.
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Anonymous
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By the time the older girls began to contort, additional forces had come into play. The five who were to become the most vociferous accusers stepped in only after Tituba’s high-voltage testimony. Every one was a servant. They had reached the age when one ecstatically ambushes the grown-ups, when dependence grades into revolt. They may have had an agenda, which they pursued more subtly than did Abigail Hobbs. They knew stresses the younger girls did not, having ventured farther into the forest of sin and temptation that Elizabeth Knapp so brilliantly charted. They were more attuned to adult collisions, demands, confidences, advances, to wolves in sheep’s clothing. Was there a sexual element at play? One can make what one will of the piercing and pecking and pricking, of pitchforks thrown down, of backs arched suggestively upward and knees locked fiercely together.
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Stacy Schiff (The Witches: Salem, 1692)
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Children, and most especially girls---
pretty ones, sheltered from the world---
should never talk to unknown men,
who likely want to gobble them,
For there are wolves with pelts of hair,
whose huge teeth serve to say beware,
but also wolves who seem quite sweet,
when wooing women in the street
with flattery and playful charm.
It's very hard to see the harm
till they devour you, blood and bone.
Perhaps you keep one in your home?
My moral is a warning too:
that smooth-tongued wolf will ruin you.
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Clare Pollard (The Modern Fairies)
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A church where greed is preached and profiteering priests reign is a den of thieves, not a house of God. When shepherds prioritize wealth over wisdom, souls are sacrificed for silver, and the sacred is sold to the highest bidder. Such priests are wolves in sheep's clothing, feeding on the flock rather than feeding the flock. Let us beware of these false prophets and seek the truth that sets us free, for the love of money is the root of all evil, and Christ's church must not be a marketplace for the mercenary.
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Shaila Touchon
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Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. 16 Ye shall know them by their fruites. Doe men gather grapes of thornes? or figges of thistles? 17 So euery good tree bringeth foorth good fruite, & a corrupt tree bringeth forth euill fruite.
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Anonymous (The Geneva Bible including the Marginal Notes of the Reformers. 1587 version.)
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Beware the wolves in sheep's clothing, who wear masks of righteousness to hide their sinful ways. Their justifications are but a veil, concealing the darkness within. May discernment be your guide to uncover their true nature.
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Shaila Touchton
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When a child is abused, they often make a subconscious decision that they are: On their own for survival, all sacrifices (of others) must be made for them to come out on top Less important everyone else, and must become subservient to all others
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Lisa McDougle (Should I Stay or Should I Go?: Discerning Wolves in Sheep's Clothing (Discerning The Wolves In Sheep's Clothing Book 1))
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KNOW YOUR WORTH: You must find the courage to leave the table if respect is no longer being served. —Tene Edwards
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Lisa McDougle (Should I Stay or Should I Go?: Discerning Wolves in Sheep's Clothing (Discerning The Wolves In Sheep's Clothing Book 1))
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Fear of abuse escalation Leaving an abusive situation is terrifying for the victim. They have been groomed to believe the ultimate opinion belongs to their spouse. If they were to leave, they’d be engendering great disapproval, like a teen running away from home. Victims feel they are breaking all the rules by escaping, and are being “naughty.” Most often, they have been groomed to believe the marriage problems are the fault of the victim, so they keep trying harder until they realize the impossibility of it, or feel their lives are threatened, or that of their children. They fear if they are caught, things will be so much worse for them. They fear the court system will not protect them. They realize to truly get away will take time, that they will have to face them through the divorce process, and fear not having the strength to stand up to them.
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Lisa McDougle (Should I Stay or Should I Go?: Discerning Wolves in Sheep's Clothing (Discerning The Wolves In Sheep's Clothing Book 1))
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Real and genuine people are always the same. They don’t change. They aren’t flattering one minute and degrading the next. They never try to bring down a person’s self-worth or self-confidence. They are lifters, cheerleaders, and steady in their expectations and performances. Even if another person fails, they are encouraging and understanding instead of shaming. That consistency doesn’t apply to wolves.
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Lisa McDougle (Should I Stay or Should I Go?: Discerning Wolves in Sheep's Clothing (Discerning The Wolves In Sheep's Clothing Book 1))
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It is natural for people to have time away from the relationship to spend with other people and to do their own thing—a morning exercise routine, playing basketball weekly with friends or on a team, getting your nails done, or a night out with friends at a special event. Couples should not have to sacrifice hobbies and interests for their relationship. Cutting back a little on other things might be needed in order to make time for your partner, but never allow another person to take away the things that make you who you are, that bring you happiness, and that help you to grow as a person.
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Lisa McDougle (Should I Stay or Should I Go?: Discerning Wolves in Sheep's Clothing (Discerning The Wolves In Sheep's Clothing Book 1))
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Hymn for the 81% By Daniel Deitrich I grew up in your churches Sunday morning and evening service Knelt in tears at the foot of the rugged cross You taught me every life is sacred Feed the hungry, clothe the naked I learned from you the highest law is Love I believed you when you said That I should trust the words in red To guide my steps through a wicked world I assumed you’d do the same So imagine my dismay When I watched you lead the sheep to the wolves You said to love the lost So I’m loving you now You said to speak the truth So I’m calling you out Why don’t you live the words That you put in my mouth May love overcome and justice roll down They started putting kids in cages Ripping mothers from their babies And I looked to you to speak on their behalf But all I heard was silence Or worse you justified it Singing glory hallelujah raise the flag Your fear had turned to hatred But you baptized it with language torn from the pages of the good book You weaponized religion And you wonder why I’m leaving To find Jesus on the wrong side of your walls You said to love the lost So I’m loving you now You said to speak the truth So I’m calling you out Why don’t you live the words That you put in my mouth May love overcome and justice roll down Come home, come home You’re better than this You taught me better than this Come home, come home You’re better than this You taught me better than this You said to love the lost I’m trying to love you now You said to speak the truth So I’m calling you out Why don’t you live the words That you put in my mouth May love overcome and justice roll down May love overcome and justice roll down May love overcome and justice roll down
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Ronald J. Sider (The Spiritual Danger of Donald Trump: 30 Evangelical Christians on Justice, Truth, and Moral Integrity)
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Beware of wolves in sheep’s clothing.
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St. Alberic of Citeaux
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Keep this in mind for what is said is meant & what is meant is said. Let the Truth of the true shepherd
guide his sheep instead of the wolves in sheeps clothing. They are incorporated to their personal interest using personnel as stock to build up corporate interest which is in plunder and control.
They decide to deceive by plating the seeds of deception and deciding to design designated devices to keep the mass desolate from the Truth. The Truth is discerned for those that prove what they've earned. The question is, "how is it earned?"
By giving the 'self' up but finding God in between the word. It's symbology for everyone to see but not everyone has eyes to see, so it's hidden in plain sight.
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Jose R. Coronado (The Land Flowing With Milk And Honey)
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Sometimes wolves come in sheep's clothing." —Fenris Vane
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Karpov Kinrade (Vampire Girl (Vampire Girl, #1))
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And false prophets—wolves in sheeps’ clothing that Jesus warned us would come—may still be with us. There are liberals who deny the Bible, and legalists and moralists who ignore its message, and prosperity teachers who twist it, but there are countless millions who’ve read the Word and understood and believed the gospel.
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Michael Reeves (The Unquenchable Flame: Discovering the Heart of the Reformation)
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Wolves in sheep's clothing aren't always detectable, but there are signs when you walk in light.
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Germany Kent
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They’re wolves in sheep’s clothing.
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Octavia Grant (Don't Call Me Crazy)
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Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves.” MATTHEW 7:15 Sometimes it is extremely difficult for us to recognize a false prophet—someone who claims to speak for God, but in reality does not. The underlying principle of all of Satan’s tactics is deception, and no Christian, however spiritual, is beyond the seductive assaults of this crafty and clever enemy. He began his work of deception in the Garden of Eden, and it continues to this day. Satan does not build a church and call it the First Church of Satan—he is far too clever for that. Instead, he tries to infiltrate the theological seminary and the pulpit, invading the church under the cover of an orthodox vocabulary—but emptying sacred terms of their true biblical meaning or denying their truth. The sword of the Spirit—the Bible—is the weapon God has provided for us to use in this battle between truth and deception. Make it a priority to wield that sword skillfully. God’s followers need to know the truth He sets forth in His Word so that we can confidently discern between His truth and Satan’s lies.
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Billy Graham (Wisdom for Each Day)
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I'm a sheep wearing wolves clothing in a pack of wolves.
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Pierce Brown (Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1))
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Of him and all the other men like him, who were nothing more than wolves in sheep’s clothing.
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Soraya M. Lane (The Berlin Sisters)