Prophets Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

We must believe what is good and true about the prophets, that they were sages, that they did understand what proceeded from their mouths, and that they bore prudence on their lips.

There is no truth which the prophets press more steadily upon Israel than that all their national life lies in the sight and on the care of God.

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 Word of fire burns today On the lips of our prophets in an evil age.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

We are all at times unconscious prophets.

Frontiersmen good and bad, gunmen as well as inspired prophets of the future, have been my camp companions. Thus, I know the country of which I am about to write as few men now living have known it.

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.

Jesters do often prove prophets.