"A sheep," said Charles Spurgeon, "is one of the most unwise of creatures. It will go anywhere except in the right direction; it will leave a fat pasture to wander into a barren one; it will find out many ways, but not the right way. It will wander through a wood, and find its way through ravines into the wolf's jaws, but never by its wariness turn away from the wolf. It could wander near its den, but it would not instinctively turn aside from the place of danger. It knows how to go astray, but it knows not how to come home again. The sheep is foolish. Left to itself it would not know in what pasture to feed in summer, or whither to return in winter."
"What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness and go after that which is lost, until he find it. And when he hath found it, he layeth it on his shoulders rejoicing." Luke 15:4, 54What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it? 5And when he hath found it, he layeth it on his shoulders, rejoicing. (Luke 15:4‑5).