PROPHET QUOTES III

quotations about prophets and prophecy

False prophet: a prophet whose god is not yet known.

BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA

The Great Pearl of Wisdom


It is the seekers ... who make the prophet.

ROBERT K. GREENLEAF

The Servant as Leader


Agnes was the worst prophet that's ever existed. Because she was always right. That's why the book never sold.

NEIL GAIMAN

Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

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Prophecy is history anticipated and contracted: while history is prophecy accomplished and dilated.

BISHOP NEWTON

attributed, Day's Collacon


The prophets reveal God in all His fulness and variety of being; they speak in human ears the strains of heaven.

EDWARD IRVING

Exposition of the Book of Revelation


You got to be worried when they're agreeing about anything.... Prophets. That's the last bloody thing you want prophets to do.

CHINA MIEVILLE

Kraken

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The prophet must be his own disciple, or he will make none. Enthusiasm is contagious: belief creates belief.

GEORGE HENRY LEWES

The Principles of Success in Literature

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To realize that prophecy in the people is like fruit in the tree is to know the unity of life.

KAHLIL GIBRAN

The Kahlil Gibran Reader: Inspirational Writings

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Fear prophets ... and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.

UMBERTO ECO

The Name of the Rose

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My gran'ther's rule was safer 'n 'tis to crow:
Don't never prophesy -- onless ye know.

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

The Biglow Papers

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As we see from the Scriptures, it had become a common and proverbial expression that if someone wanted to refer to a prophet, he called him a "fool."

MARTIN LUTHER

The Place of Trust: Martin Luther on the Sermon on the Mount

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Every minister worthy of the name has to walk the line between prophetic vision and spiritual sustenance, between telling people the comforting things they want to hear and challenging them with the difficult things they need to hear.

TIMOTHY B. TYSON

Blood Done Sign My Name


I shall always consider the best guesser the best prophet.

CICERO

De Divinatione

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The variable that marks some periods as barren and some as rich in prophetic vision is in the interest, the level of seeking, the responsiveness of the hearers. The variable is not in the presence or absence or the relative quality and force of the prophetic voices. The prophet grows in stature as people respond to his message.

ROBERT K. GREENLEAF

The Servant as Leader


We may take the prophets as our teachers; but we must not bow down to their idol notions.

T. PARKER

attributed, Day's Collacon


Of the times in like manner wherein we now live, the Apostle Paul did prophecy that there should be many false prophets: and we do see his sayings therein to be fulfilled.

RICHARD BANCROFT

sermon preached at Paul's Cross, February 9, 1589

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The best prophet is common sense.

EURIPIDES

Helen

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Prognostics do not always prove prophecies, at least the wisest prophets make sure of the event first.

HORACE WALPOLE

letter to Thomas Walpole, February 9, 1785

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What is it with these prophets? Almost without exception ordinary men, some of them with more vices than virtues, suddenly they were touched with fire. Is it that a man sees best the stars when he is prone?

GREY OWL & LITTLE PIGEON

Cry of the Ancients


Prophecy and prescience--How can they be put to the test in the face of unanswered questions? Consider: How much is actual prediction ... and how much is the prophet shaping the future to fit the prophecy? What are the harmonics inherent in the act of prophecy? Does the prophet see the future or does he see a line of weakness, a fault or cleavage that he may shatter with words or decisions as a diamond-cutter shatters his gem with a blow of the knife?

FRANK HERBERT

Dune

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