Prophecy Quotes - Page 12

• Some women's faces are, in their brightness, a prophecy; and some, in their sadness, a history.

  Charles Dickens

  Sadness, Brightness, Faces

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• There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Faces, Countenance, Reflecting

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1836). “The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.343

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• The Bible is not primarily a written or printed text to be scrutinized in private, in a scholar's study or a contemplative cell. It is a body of oral messages, announcements, prophecies, promulgations, recitals, histories, songs of praise, lamentations, etc., which are meant either to be uttered or at least read aloud, or chanted, or sung, or recited in a community convoked for the purpose of a living celebration.

  Thomas Merton

  Song, Cells, Community

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• This writer, who is horribly perspicacious and vigorous, demonstrates the certainty of a great European war, and regards it with the peculiar satisfaction excited by such things in a certain order of mind. His phrases about "dire calamity" and so on mean nothing; the whole tenor of his writing proves that he represents, and consciously, one of the forces which go to bring war about; his part in the business is a fluent irresponsibility, which casts scorn on all who reluct at the "inevitable." Persistent prophecy is a familiar way of assuring the event.

  George Gissing

  War, Writing, Mean

  "The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft". Book by George Gissing. Summer, § VII, p. 89, 1903.

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• Poets may boast (as safely-vain) Their work shall with the world remain: Both bound together, live, or die, The verses and the prophecy. But who can hope his lines shou'd long Last, in a daily changing tongue? While they are new, envy prevails, And as that dies, our language fails.

  Edmund Waller

  Envy, Long, Together

  1645 'Of English Verse'.

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• All our lives are activity without meaning; we burrow ratlike into life and we squirm ratlike through it and ratlike we are flung into our graves at the end. Now and then, why shouldn't we hear a voice of prophecy.

  Gregory Maguire

  Voice, Now And Then, Ends

  Gregory Maguire (2013). “The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz”, p.32, Harper Collins

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• You have to take Bible prophecy literally, just like everything else in the Bible.

  Tim LaHaye

  Bible Prophecy

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• To be honest, one can only feel glad that so many modern iconoclasts consider Christianity to be full of exceptionally hypocritical, religious zealots - it's biblically accurate and a prophecy fulfilled. The old smoke screen is one of Satan's favorite tricks. He conceals the authentic. He has a persistent strategy of targeting those who remind him of Christianity because he fears those who remind him of Christ.

  Criss Jami

  Religious, Fear, Honest

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.37, Criss Jami

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• History is but the unrolled scroll of prophecy.

  James A. Garfield

  Historical

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• Prophecy and history predict and record a great and universal apostasy which was to be followed by a restoration as predicted by John in Revelation. The fact of the great apostasy is attested by both sacred and secular writ, and history bears witness that it became universal. We proclaim this fact of history not as an attack on any church. We do not assume any position of "holier than thou" or "wiser than thou," but we announce this historic fact of the apostasy as a vindication of the claim that there has been in fact a restoration of the gospel.

  Hugh B. Brown

  Historical, Church, Restoration

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• To be prophets, in particular, by demonstrating how Jesus lived on this earth, and to proclaim how the kingdom of God will be in its perfection. A religious must never give up prophesising Let us think about what so many great saints, monks and religious men and women have done, from St Anthony the Abbot onward. Being prophets may sometimes involve making ruido [Spanish for noise]. I do not know how to put it Prophecy makes noise, uproar, some say 'a mess.' But in reality, the charism of religious people is like yeast: prophecy announces the spirit of the Gospel.

  Pope Francis

  Religious, Jesus, Giving Up

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• I have great faith in optimism as a guiding principle, if only because it offers us the opportunity of creating a self-fulfilling prophecy.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Opportunity, Guiding Principles, Self

  "Sir Arthur C. Clarke: 90th Birthday Reflections". Arthur C. Clarke's message delivered on his 90th birthday, www.youtube.com. 2007.

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• There's a tendency for adults to label the math that they can do (such as identifying patterns, choosing between competing offers in a supermarket, and challenging statistics published by the government) as "common sense" and labeling everything they can't do as "math" - so that being bad at math becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

  Robert Eastaway

  Education, Math, Government

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• The idea that I would get to see this revival was almost overwhelming. And in the last decade or so, I believe we have seen this revival begin to sweep the earth. We have seen amazing moves of God in Africa Recently, I was in China and met with the underground church. I was told there are at least forty-five million Full Gospel Christians in China. I discovered a depth of prayer and integrity there that I have not felt anywhere else in the world So I believe we are seeing Wigglesworth's prophecy begin to be fulfilled. We are seeing the first stages of it.

  Lester Sumrall

  Christian, Prayer, Integrity

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• My hope that the Church will emerge as a strong leader in society is just that a hope. What I described in The Catholic Moment is not a prophecy but the outline of a possibility. There are no guarantees that my hopes expressed in The Catholic Moment will ever be realised.

  Richard John Neuhaus

  Strong, Guarantees That, Leader

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• Marxism is the modern form of Jewish prophecy.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Modern, Form, Marxism

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• Many have said much about love, but you will find love itself only if you seek it among the disciples of Christ. For only they have true Love as love's teacher. 'Though I have the gift of prophecy', says St. Paul, 'and know all mysteries and all knowledge? and have no love, it profits me nothing' (I Cor. 13:2-3). He who possesses love possesses God Himself, for 'God is love' (I Jn. 4:8). To Him be glory throughout the ages. Amen.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Teacher, Finding Love

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• The wisdom of the Bible writers is more than human; the prophecies proclaim a Supreme Ruler who, though inhabiting all space, deigns to speak through the hearts and minds and tongues of His children.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Children, Heart, Space

  William Jennings Bryan (1922). “In His Image: By William Jennings Bryan”

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• Oh! if you could only hear Intemperance with drunkards' bones drumming on the top of the wine cask the Dead March of immortal souls, you would go home and kneel down and pray God that rather than your children should ever become the victims of this evil habit, you might carry them out to Greenwood and put them down in the last slumber, waiting for the flowers of spring to come over the grave-sweet prophecies of the resurrection. God hath a balm for such a Wound, but what flower of comfort ever grew on the blasted heath of a drunkard's sepulcher?

  Thomas De Witt Talmage

  Sweet, Children, Spring

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• Reason is a poor hand at prophecies.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Hands, Reason, Poor

  Sylvia Townsend Warner, William Maxwell (1982). “Letters”

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• When the government pays, health care's lack of affordability becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. In health care, as in other things, government is the high-cost producer.

  Arnold Kling

  Government, Self, Cost

  Arnold Kling (2004). “Learning Economics”, p.296, Xlibris Corporation

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• According to PhD astrophysicists and qualified American science professors, the odds of the more than 2,500 prophecies found in the Bible being fulfilled by chance are 1 with 2,000 zeros after it. According to the mathematical science of probability, if a number has more than 50 zeros after it, the odds of that happening by chance is virtually impossible. This is irrefutable proof that the Bible is inspired by God!

  Hugh Ross

  Odds, Numbers, Phds

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• Yes,' she said. 'The Great Prophecy has begun.' Pandemonium broke out.

  Rick Riordan

  Broke, Said, Pandemonium

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• I don't want what I am saying to sound like a prophecy or anything like an analysis of modern society .... these are only feelings I have, and I am the least speculative man on earth.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Men, Feelings, Sound

  "Interview in Rome". Encountering Directors, (pp. 15-32), 1972.

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• I was been raised to believe I was an artist. I believed what my parents said and fulfilled it, like a prophecy.

  Ariel Pink

  Believe, Artist, Parent

  "Before Today You May Have Considered Ariel Pink Quite Kitsch". Interview with Louis Pattison, www.theguardian.com. July 10, 2010.

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