Prophecy Quotes

Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10.

My hope that the Church will emerge as a strong leader in society is just that a hope. What I described in The Catholic Moment is not a prophecy but the outline of a possibility. There are no guarantees that my hopes expressed in The Catholic Moment will ever be realised.

Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.

The difference between hearsay and prophecy is often one of sequence. Hearsay often turns out to have been prophecy.

A self-fulfilling prophecy is an assumption or prediction that, purely as a result of having been made, cause the expected or predicted event to occur and thus confirms its own 'accuracy.'

I don't want what I am saying to sound like a prophecy or anything like an analysis of modern society... these are only feelings I have, and I am the least speculative man on earth.

Persistent prophecy is a familiar way of assuring the event.

I wanted to rock back and forth between myth and distant futures, yesterday, today, and tomorrow. It felt a bit like prophecy and a bit like storytelling.

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

We are not against religions. This country is the cradle of prophecy and the true message and we will not contradict this.

America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description.

My first job was as an assistant in the local library. Self-fulfilling prophecy?

If you are an antichrist, you won't believe in the bible prophecy from the beginning. Which means, you won't believe that physical immortality will become possible.

That is still the case in this country for too many students, the soft bigotry of low expectations. If you don't expect them to learn, if you don't expect them to succeed - then it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Well, with prophecy you got to see what happens.

You have to take Bible prophecy literally, just like everything else in the Bible.

If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.

Every theory is a self-fulfilling prophecy that orders experience into the framework it provides.

Which prophecy of Christ we see wonderfully to be verified, insomuch that the whole course of the Church to this day may seem nothing else but a verifying of the said prophecy.

In the computer field, the moment of truth is a running program; all else is prophecy.

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future.

Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.

Prophecy is what we all have to go by now.

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

Left Behind takes what to some people may be unbelievable predictions from the Bible and shows how they might play out. It makes the events of biblical prophecy understandable and thus believable.

To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.

Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.