The Pastures of God

“When a shepherd sees that his sheep have scattered, he keeps one of them under his control and leads it to the pastures he chooses, and thus he draws the other sheep back to him by means of this one. And so it was when God the Word saw that the human race had gone astray: He took the form of a slave and united it to Himself, and by means of it won over the whole race of men to Him, enticing the sheep that were grazing in bad pastures and exposed to wolves, and leading them to the pastures of God.”
~Theodoret of Cyr