I shall always consider the best guesser the best prophet.
The difference between hearsay and prophecy is often one of sequence. Hearsay often turns out to have been prophecy.
Oh, to be alive in such an age, when miracles are everywhere, and every inch of common air throbs a tremendous prophecy, of greater marvels yet to be.
PROPHECY, n. The art and practice of selling one's credibility for future delivery.
I think God loves to speak to us prophetically, because there are a number of things which happen when you receive a prophecy.
Many a prophecy, by the mere force of its being believed, is transmuted to fact.
The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion, all in one.
Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10.
With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet.
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does he picture us caught in a tremendous man-made or God-made trap from which there is no escape, but we must also listen to him day in, day out, describe how the trap is inexorably closing. To such prophecies the human race, as presently bred and educated and situated, is incapable of listening. So some dance and some immolate themselves as human torches; some take drugs and some artists spill their creativity in sets of randomly placed dots on a white ground.
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.
Prayers are prophecies. They are the best predictors of your spiritual future. Who you become is determined by how you pray. Ultimately, the transcript of your prayers becomes the script of your life.
They (the consecrated) are men and woman who can awaken the world. Consecrated life is prophecy. God asks us to fly the nest and to be sent to the frontiers of the world, avoiding the temptation to 'domesticate' them. This is the most concrete way of imitating the Lord.
It is impossible that there should be so much providence in the last details, and none in the first principles. Then the arts of prophecy and of healing, which are part of the cosmos, come of the good providence of the Gods.
Like most modern people, I don't believe in prophecy or magic and then spend half my time practicing it.
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.'
No mighty trance, or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.
A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in his own house.
A divine person is the prophecy of the mind; a friend is the hope of the heart.
Prophecy, that universal and perpetual torch by which faith is enlightened.
The New Testament rests itself for credulity and testimony on what are called prophecies in the Old Testament, of the person called Jesus Christ; and if there are no such things as prophecies of any such person in the Old Testament, the New Testament.
Every dream is a prophecy: every jest is an earnest in the womb of Time.
Self-doubt is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men.
A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, "You are mad; you are not like us."
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