Prophecy Quotes - Page 11

• Bible prophecies indicate that in the last dispensation of the gospel, there would be a restoration of all of the principles and practices of former dispensations, which includes temple-building and the performing of ordinances therein.

  David B. Haight

  Practice, Principles, Would Be

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• we are far too used to the assumption that poetry and poets will be there when we want them, no matter how long they have been ignored, taken for granted, misused. After all, isn't poetry a form of prophecy, and aren't prophets known for their talent for flourishing in inhospitable deserts and other bleak surroundings? Maybe. But maybe not indefinitely.

  Jan Clausen

  Taken, Long, Poetry

  Jan Clausen (1982). “A movement of poets: thoughts on poetry and feminism”, Long Haul Pr

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• Al Gore is producing enough hot air to make his doomsday predictions about global warming a self-fulfilling prophecy.

  Joseph Farah

  Air, Self, Hot

  Joseph Farah (2007). “Stop the Presses!: The Inside Story of the New Media Revolution”, p.151, WND Books

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• Systematic theology will ask questions like "What are the attributes of God? What is sin? What does the cross achieve?" Biblical theology tends to ask questions such as "What is the theology of the prophecy of Isaiah? What do we learn from John's Gospel? How does the theme of the temple work itself out across the entire Bible?" Both approaches are legitimate; both are important. They are mutually complementary.

  D. A. Carson

  Biblical, Important, Systematic

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Every man is not so much a workman in the world as he is a suggestion of that he should be. Men walk as prophecies of the next age.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Growth, Age

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.69, Penguin

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• Revelation isn't just end time's prophecy, it's God showing off his Son and his glory and honoring us, his treasured bride, with a seat at his table forever!

  Jennifer Rothschild

  Son, Forever, Tables

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• It was almost as if I had a right to win. Thinking like that often seems to turn into sort of a self-fulfilling prophecy.

  Sam Walton

  Thinking, Winning, Self

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• Lying is common in social life, often done for benign purposes, seldom draws severe sanctions, and many of the most notable leaders, including the late Steve Jobs, were consummate prevaricators. Told with enough persistence and conviction, what was once untrue can become true, in a self-fulfilling prophecy sort of way.

  Jeffrey Pfeffer

  Jobs, Lying, Persistence

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• And I know that this is prophetic: that God is going to send this mighty wave - I want everyone here to prophecy with me in Lakeland - that this mighty wave is going all the way out to California, Highway 40, coast to coast aaaaah! and we want to release that mighty Holy Ghost in. Send it all over the world. The wave is moving. The wave is moving the wave is. Come on! Catch the wave. Catch the wave in Canada. Catch it in Canada. Catch it in Australia. Catch it in England. Catch it in Asia. Catch it in Europe. Catch it all over the world.

  Todd Bentley

  Moving, Europe, California

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• I loathe the mess of mean superstitions and misunderstood prophecies which is still rammed down the throats of children under the name of Christianity.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Religious, Children, Mean

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• Prophecy is many times the principal cause of the events foretold.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Events, Causes, Principal

  Thomas Hobbes (1750). “The Moral and Political Works To which is Prefixed the Autors Life, Extracted from that Said to be Written by Himself ... Illustr. by the Ed. - London 1750”, p.580

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• Prophecy - To observe that which has passed, and guess it will happen again.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Happens

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• I feel that we are on the eve of a new era, when there is to be great harmony between the Federal and Confederate. I cannot stay to be a living witness to the correctness of this prophecy; but I feel it within me that it is to be so.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Eras, Harmony, Confederate

  Ulysses S. Grant (2007). “Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant”, p.462, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Study prophecies when they are become histories.

  Thomas Browne

  Study

  Sir Thomas Browne (1844). “Religio Medici. Its sequel, Christian Morals ... With resemblant passages from Cowper's Task, and a verbal index. [Edited by John Peace.]”, p.180

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• prophecies do not alter fate, only confirm it.

  Bette Lord

  Fate

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• We must be optimistic about the future because it's a self-fulfilling prophecy. If we are creative and ambitious, intelligent machines will liberate us and be as profound a boon to our prosperity as electricity. If we are fearful, and fail to press ahead, we could be overwhelmed by automation and inequality.

  Garry Kasparov

  Optimistic, Intelligent, Profound

  "Garry Kasparov on Russia, chess, and the great gambit of AI". TED Talk, www.macleans.ca. May 1, 2017.

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• Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies. When they fail to come off its clergy simply say that they will be realized later on. Thus, if we have another boom, they will argue that the collapse of capitalism is only postponed. The fact that the greatest booms ever heard of followed Marx's formal prophecy of the downfall of capitalism is already forgotten, just as millions have long since forgotten the early Christian prophecy that the end of the world was at hand. The first Christians accepted postponements as docilely as the Communists of today.

  H. L. Mencken

  Christian, Hands, Long

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.277, Knopf

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• The prophesying business is like writing fugues; it is fatal to every one save the man of absolute genius.

  H. L. Mencken

  Writing, Men, Genius

  H. L. Mencken, Marion Elizabeth Rodgers (2010). “H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: First, Second, and Third Series”, Hubsta Ltd

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• I have not yet learned to live, that I can see, and I fear that I shall not very soon. I find, however, that in the long run things correspond to my original idea,--that they correspond to nothing else so much; and thus a man may really be a true prophet without any great exertion. The day is never so dark, nor the night even, but that the laws at least of light still prevail, and so may make it light in our minds if they are open to the truth.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Running, Dark

  Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1865). “Letters to Various Persons”, p.113

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• Childhood trauma is not necessarily a prophecy of doom, because some children are resilient or because later experiences help to restore mental health.

  Richard Bentall

  Children, Childhood, Helping

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Some have speculated that the way [Albert] Camus died made his theories on absurdity a self-fulfilling prophecy. Others would say it was the triumphant meaningful way he lived that allowed him to rise heroically above absurdity.

  Aberjhani

  Meaningful, Self, Way

  Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.80, Lulu.com

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• The many instances of forged miracles, and prophecies, and supernatural events, which, in all ages, have either been detected by contrary evidence, or which detect themselves by their absurdity, prove sufficiently the strong propensity of mankind to the extraordinary and marvellous, and ought reasonably to begat a suspicion against all relations of this kind.

  David Hume

  Religious, Strong, Miracle

  David Hume (1861). “An Essay on Miracles. No. 10 of the “Philosophical Essays concerning Human Understanding.””, p.10

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• In America it is the so-called capitalist who is to blame for the fulfillment of Marx's prophecies. Beguiled by the state's siren song of special privilege, the capitalists have abandoned capitalism.

  Frank Chodorov

  Song, America, Special

  Frank Chodorov (1980). “Fugitive essays: selected writings of Frank Chodorov”, Liberty Fund Inc.

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• You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it - low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion - and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national. The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Passion, Land, House

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• If you give up on politics, you're giving up on democracy. And if you give up on democracy, you're basically saying to the moneyed interests, the powerful people and institutions of society, take it all. That's a self-fulfilling prophecy. Then we give up. Then we are 100 percent plutocracy.

  Robert Reich

  Giving Up, Powerful, Self

  Source: www.pbs.org

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