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• To divine the course of world events, you'd do as well to probe the entrails of dead animals. Better still, ask your hairstylist. She will be at least as insightful and probably more entertaining a prophet than anyone you can read in Foreign Affairs or the op-ed page of the Washington Post.

  Andrew Bacevich

  Animal, Insightful, Events

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• Do not waste one moment in regret, for to think feelingly of the mistakes of the past is to re-infect yourself.

  Neville Goddard

  Inspiring, Regret, Mistake

  Neville Goddard “Neville's Spiritual Classics”, Lulu.com

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• When proven wrong, the wise man will correct himself and the ignorant will keep arguing.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Wise, Wisdom, Islamic

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• People are of two types, they are either your brothers in faith or your equals in humanity.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Faith, Brother, Islamic

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

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  "Dick Cavett Show", PBS, July 17, 1978.

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• How often God visited the Jewish Church with judgments because they would not repent and be revived at the call of His prophets! How often have we seen Churches, and even whole denominations, cursed with a curse, because they would not wake up and seek the Lord.

  Charles Grandison Finney

  Church, Wake Up, Judgment

  Charles Grandison Finney (1835). “Lectures on Revivals of Religion”, p.24

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• Great eagles fly alone; great lions hunt alone; great souls walk alone-alone with God. Such loneliness is hard to endure, and impossible to enjoy unless God accompanied. Prophets are lone men; they walk alone, pray alone and God makes them alone.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Loneliness, Men, Eagles

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• The strong is not the one who is physically powerful, but indeed, the one who controls himself when angry.

  Muhammad

  Strength, Being Strong, Powerful

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• When you are in the temple, remember that you are in the living presence of the Lord God, that you stand before His face, before His eyes, in the living presence of the Mother of God, of the holy angels, and of the first-born of the Church - that is, our forefathers, the prophets, Apostles, hierarchs, martyrs, reverend Fathers, the righteous, and all the saints. Always have the remembrance and consciousness of this when you are in the temple, and stand with devotion, taking part willingly and with all your heart in the Divine service.

  John of Kronstadt

  Christian, Mother, Father

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• Osama bin Laden, who is a Saudi, feels himself to be a patriot because the U.S. has forces in Saudi Arabia, which is sacred because it is the land of the prophet Mohammed.

  Edward Said

  Land, Arabia, Sacred

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• The church is: a conspiracy of love for a dying world, a spy mission into enemy occupied territory ruled by the powers of evil; a prophet from God with the greatest news the world has ever heard, the most life changing and most revolutionary institution that has existed on earth.

  Peter Kreeft

  Christian, Life Changing, Evil

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• Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Deeds, Sacred Things, Pagan

  Abraham Joshua Heschel, Ilya Schor (1995). “The Earth is the Lord's: The Inner World of the Jew in Eastern Europe”, p.14, Jewish Lights Publishing

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• I cannot recall, in any of my reading, a single instance of a prophet who applied for the job.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Jobs, Reading, Instance

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• We are prophets of a future not our own.

  Oscar Romero

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• The prophet Zechariah warns that any nation that touches Jerusalem will be cut off.

  David Wilkerson

  Cutting, Jerusalem, Nations

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• When God grabs you by the scruff of the neck then although theoretically you have a freedom to say 'no', in another sense, actually, you can't say no because it's like Jeremiah. 'God, you have cheated me. You called me to be a prophet against the people that I love, and all that I proclaim is words of doom and judgement.' And yet if I say "I will shut up", I can't.

  Desmond Tutu

  People, Judgement, Necks

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• When love beckons to you, follow him,
  Though his ways are hard and steep.

  Khalil Gibran

  Life, Hippie, Hard Times

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, and though they are with you, yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love, but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward, nor tarries with yesterday.

  Khalil Gibran

  Wisdom, Daughter, Dream

  Prophet (1923) "On Children"

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• A prophet is not someone with special visions, just someone blind to most of what others see

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Vision, Special, Blind

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.1785, Random House

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• When He send, His messengers will go, His prophets will prophesy, though all the world should forbid them.

  Roger Williams

  World, Messengers, Should

  Source: www.libertymagazine.org

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

  Walter Martin

  Biblical, People, Devil

  Walter Martin, Ravi Zacharias (2003). “The Kingdom of the Cults”, p.555, Baker Books

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

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Worship, Accepting

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• Your imagination is the single most important asset you possess. Your imagination is your power to create mental pictures of things that don't exist yet and that you want to bring into being. Your imagination is what you use to shape your future. And so in your own way, you are a prophet. You generate countless predictions every day. Your imagination is the source,tirelessly churning out mental pictures of what you'll be doing in the future.

  Rob Brezsny

  Imagination, Important, Use

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• 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.

  Aldous Huxley

  Next, Literature, Distressing

  1956 'Brave New World Revisited', in Esquire.

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• All things and all acts and this whole wonderful universe proclaim to us the Lord our Father, Christ our love, Christ our hope, our portion, and our joy. Oh, brethren, if you would know the meaning of the world, read Christ in it. If you would see the beauty of earth, take it for a prophet of something higher than itself.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Nature, Father, Joy

  Alexander Maclaren (1859). “Sermons preached in Union chapel, Manchester”, p.22

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