It goes without saying that even those of us who are going to hell will get eternal life—if that territory really exists outside religious books and the minds of believers, that is. Having said that, given the choice, instead of being grilled until hell freezes over, the average sane human being would, needless to say, rather spend forever idling in an extremely fertile garden, next to a lamb or a chicken or a parrot, which they do not secretly want to eat, and a lion or a tiger or a crocodile, which does not secretly want to eat them.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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I looked at the stained-glass image of the lamb in the window above me, but that only reminded me that lambs are famous for being led to slaughter, or sometimes hanging out with lions in ill-advised relationships.

~ Maureen Johnson

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To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

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It is an interesting thing, love ,” the Princess stated. “It can turn lambs into heroes, and heroes into lambs.

~ James William Peercy

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As he prepared to ride on, he chuckled at the thought of the wolf entering the sheepfold. He would not ride with fire and destruction. The shepherd did not frighten his own pretty lambs.

~ Conn Iggulden

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Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs.

~ Isaiah Berlin

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