Prophet Quotes

I'm not a prophet, but I always thought it was natural for dictatorships to fall. I remember in 1989, two months before the fall of the Berlin Wall, had you said it was going to happen no one would have believed you. The system seemed powerful and unbreakable. Suddenly overnight it blew away like dust.

The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.

The greatest legacy is that which benefits the widest number of people for the longest period without limit to value. No one but the Prophet Muhammad was given that role as the seal of God's message.

A biblical false prophet was a servant of the devil attempting to lead people away from the truth.

With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet.

We've seen violent responses to 'Satanic Verses.' We've seen violent responses to the cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed in an evil way.

The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities.

I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet.

Our Prophet was a radical too- he fought against the injustices of his community and challenged the feudal order of his society, so they called him a radical. So what? We should be proud of that!

The best Qualification of a Prophet is to have a good Memory.

Even if I accepted that Jesus - like almost every other prophet on record - was born of a virgin, I cannot think that this proves the divinity of his father or the truth of his teachings. The same would be true if I accepted that he had been resurrected.

I don't believe Jesus was the son of God, although I'm inclined to think he might have been a great prophet.

A prophet or an achiever must never mind an occasional absurdity, it is an occupational risk.

I am not a prophet in any sense of the word, and I entertain an active and intense dislike of the foregoing mixture of optimism, fatalism, and conservatism.

Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly; and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men.

In your hands or that of any other person, so much power would, no doubt, be dangerous. I am the only man in the world whom it would be safe to trust with it. Remember, I am a prophet!

The historian is a prophet looking backward.

If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.