Prophecy Quotes - Page 3

• To be fulfilled, a prophecy needs lots of flexibility.

  Mason Cooley

  Needs, Fulfilled, Flexibility

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• I can prophecy that your grandchildren in America will live under socialism -- Our firm conviction is that sooner or later Capitalism will give way to Socialism. Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Grandchildren, America, Giving

  Speech to Western diplomats, Moscow, 18 Nov. 1956.

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• In Him (God), history and prophecy are one and the same.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Christian Inspirational

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• The cross is the centre of the world's history; the incarnation of Christ and the crucifiction of our Lord are the pivot round which all the events of the ages revolve. The testimony of Christ was the spirit of prophecy, and the growing power of Jesus is the spirit of history

  Alexander MacLaren

  Jesus, Age, Events

  Alexander Maclaren (1871). “Sermons Preached in Manchester: First series”, p.185

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• For the deeds of a man, not the words of a prophecy, are what shape his destiny.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Destiny, Men, Shapes

  Lloyd Alexander (2014). “The High King: The Chronicles of Prydain”, p.161, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• It is not till it is discovered that high individual incomes will not purchase the mass of mankind immunity from cholera, typhus, and ignorance, still less secure them the positive advantages of educational opportunity and economic security, that slowly and reluctantly, amid prophecies of moral degeneration and economic disaster, society begins to make collective provision for needs which no ordinary individual, even if he works overtime all his life, can provide himself.

  R. H. Tawney

  Educational, Ignorance, Opportunity

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• Nature and the spirit of our ancestors are giving you loud warnings. Today you see increasing floods, more damaging hurricanes, hail storms, climate changes and earthquakes as our prophecies said would come. Why do animals act like they know about the earth's problems and most humans act like they know nothing? If we humans do not wake up to the warnings, the great purification will come to destroy this world just as the previous worlds were destroyed.

  Thomas Banyacya

  Animal, Earthquakes, Giving

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• Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

  Eric Hoffer

  Lying, Power, Government

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• Hand over the prophecy and no one need get hurt," said Malfoy coolly. It was Harry's turn to laugh. "Yeah, right!" he said. "I will give you this - prophecy, is it? And you'll just let us skip off home, will you?

  J. K. Rowling

  Hurt, Home, Hands

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• The Prophecies of Daniel are all of them related to one another, as if they were but several parts of one general Prophecy, given at several times. The first is the easiest to be understood, and every following Prophecy adds something new to the former.

  Isaac Newton

  Firsts, Add, Something New

  Sir Isaac Newton (2016). “Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John”, p.17, Library of Alexandria

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• The Old Testament teems with prophecies of the Messiah, but nowhere is it intimated that that Messiah is to stand as a God to be worshipped. He is to bring peace on earth, to build up the waste places--to comfort the broken-hearted, but nowhere is he spoken of as a deity.

  Olympia Brown

  Broken, Comfort, Earth

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• Daniel was in the greatest credit amongst the Jews, till the reign of the Roman Emperor Hadrian . And to reject his prophecies, is to reject the Christian religion. For this religion is founded upon his prophecy concerning the Messiah .

  Isaac Newton

  Christian, Hadrian, Credit

  Sir Isaac Newton (2016). “Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John”, p.17, Library of Alexandria

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• Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any way of getting beyond those prophecies.

  Harold Bloom

  Art, Different, Three

  Harold Bloom, Robert Moynihan (1986). “A Recent imagining: interviews with Harold Bloom, Geoffrey Hartman, J. Hillis Miller, Paul De Man”

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• Soon the sun will set'- is that prophecy? No, it's merely an assertion of faith in the consistency of events.

  Walter M. Miller, Jr.

  Consistency, Events, Sun

  Walter M. Miller Jr. (1959). “A CANTICLE FOR LEIBOWITZ”

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• ...you can't let something that'll probably never happen ruin your life. You're only helping to make it a self-fulfilling prophecy

  Raymond Khoury

  Self, Ruins, Helping

  Raymond Khoury (2006). “The Last Templar”, p.273, Penguin

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• When men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe... that the ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas-- that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market, and that truth is the only ground upon which their wishes safely can be carried out. That at any rate is the theory of our Constitution. It is an experiment. As all life is an experiment. Every year if not every day we wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Freedom, Believe, Fighting

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• Nothing you do makes much of a difference if you do not have charity. You can speak with tongues, have the gift of prophecy, understand all mysteries, and possess all knowledge; even if you have the faith to move mountains, without charity it won't profit you at all.... Without charity-or the pure love of Christ-whatever else we accomplish matters little. With it, all else becomes vibrant and alive.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Moving, Differences, Mountain

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• All prophecy is based on a revelation from God, but always operates at a lower level of authority than that of inspired Scripture.

  Sam Storms

  Scripture, Inspired, Revelations

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Who could believe in the prophecies ... that the world would end this summer, while one milkweed with faith matured its seeds.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Summer, Believe, Science

  Michael Benjamin Berger, Henry David Thoreau (2000). “Thoreau's Late Career and The Dispersion of Seeds: The Saunterer's Synoptic Vision”, p.126, Camden House

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• Climate change is no longer a doomsday prophecy, it's a reality.

  Astrid Nøklebye Heiberg

  Reality, Environmental, Climate

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• A man's liberal and conservative phases seem to follow each other in a succession of waves from the time he is born. Children are radicals. Youths are conservatives, with a dash of criminal negligence. Men in their prime are liberals (as long as their digestion keeps pace with their intellect). The middle aged run to shelter: they insure their life, draft a will, accumulate mementos and occasional tables, and hope for security. And then comes old age, which repeats childhood - a time full of humors and sadness, but often full of courage and even prophecy.

  E. B. White

  Running, Children, Sadness

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• He who asks fortune-tellers the future unwittingly forfeits an inner intimation of coming events that is a thousand times more exact than anything they may say. He is impelled by inertia, rather than curiosity, and nothing is more unlike the submissive apathy with which he hears his fate revealed than the alert dexterity with which the man of courage lays hands on the future.

  Walter Benjamin

  Fate, Men, Hands

  Walter Benjamin, Marcus Paul Bullock, Michael William Jennings, Howard Eiland (1996). “Selected Writings: 1913-1926”, p.482, Harvard University Press

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• Let the gentleman go to Revelation to learn the decree of God - let him go to the Bible. . . . I said that slavery was sanctioned in the Bible, authorized, regulated, and recognized from Genesis to Revelation. . . . Slavery existed then in the earliest ages, and among the chosen people of God; and in Revelation we are told that it shall exist till the end of time shall come. You find it in the Old and New Testaments - in the prophecies, psalms, and the epistles of Paul; you find it recognized - sanctioned everywhere.

  Jefferson Davis

  People, Religion, Gentleman

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• Shivaji was the greatest Hindu king that India had produced within the last thousand years; one who was the very incarnation of lord Siva, about whom prophecies were given out long before he was born; and his advent was eagerly expected by all the great souls and saints of Maharashtra as the deliverer of the Hindus from the hands of the Mlecchas, and as one who succeeded in the reestablishment of Dharma which had been trampled underfoot by the depredations of the devastating hordes of the Moghals

  Swami Vivekananda

  Kings, Hands, Years

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• I am personally acquainted with hundreds of journalists, and the opinion of the majority of them would not be worth tuppence in private, but when they speak in print it is the newspaper that is talking (the pygmy scribe is not visible) and then their utterances shake the community like the thunders of prophecy.

  Mark Twain

  Media, Talking, Community

  Mark Twain (1992). “Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches & Essays: 1852-1890”

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