Prophets Quotes

The groundhog is like most other prophets; it delivers its prediction and then disappears.

Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.

Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah.

Hence it comes about that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed.

The words contained in it were inspired by the Holy Spirit into the minds of faithful men, called Prophets and Seers in the Old Testament; and Evangelists and Apostles in the New.

The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.

We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.

The prophets and the writers of the Psalms were clear that God was continuing to work in the universe and in all history. They declared that He had created the universe.

If all things were made through Him, clearly so must the splendid revelations have been which were made to the fathers and prophets, and became to them the symbols of the sacred mysteries of religion.

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.

That which I have set out in Latin is not my words but the words of God and of apostles and prophets, who of course have never lied. He who believes shall be saved, but he who does not believe shall be damned. God has spoken.

There was no division I could see between the essential teaching of all Prophets and wise men of religion.

Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.

The prophets, who were very many, proclaim and declare the one God; for, being filled with the inspiration of the one God, they predicted things to come, with agreeing and harmonious voice.

The most that one of Jewish faith can do - and some have gladly done it - is to say that Jesus was the greatest in the long succession of Jewish prophets. None can acknowledge that Jesus was the Messiah without becoming a Christian.

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.

We are not diplomats but prophets, and our message is not a compromise but an ultimatum.

The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt.

Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.

For if the mystery concealed of old is made manifest to the Apostles through the prophetic writings, and if the prophets, being wise men, understood what proceeded from their own mouths, then the prophets knew what was made manifest to the Apostles.

True artists are prophets. I don't want to be that prophetic in that sense because it's so lonely.

We have become makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.

In my tradition, one must wait until one has learned a lot of Bible and Talmud and the Prophets to handle mysticism. This isn't instant coffee. There is no instant mysticism.

Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.

The wisest prophets make sure of the event first.

I am convinced the prophets of doom have to be taken seriously.

I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.

We are all at times unconscious prophets.

Therefore, the church is not absolutely necessary as an object of faith, not even for us today, for then Abraham and the other prophets would not have given assent to those things which were revealed to them from God without any intervening help of the church.