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• The paradox of the prophet: his very success is his failure. The prophet whose time has come no longer shocks; he entertains.

  Peter Drucker

  Vision, Paradox, Shock

  Peter F. Drucker (1999). “Adventures of a Bystander”, p.255, Transaction Publishers

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• I agree with your remark about loving your enemy as far as actions are concerned. But for me the cognitive basis is the trust in an unrestricted causality. 'I cannot hate him, because he must do what he does.' That means for me more Spinoza than the prophets.

  Albert Einstein

  Hate, Mean, Loving You

  Letter to Michele Besso, January 6, 1948.

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• Scratching people where they itch and addressing their 'felt needs' is a stratagem of the poor steward of the oracles of God. This was the recipe for success for the false prophets of the Old Testament.

  R. C. Sproul

  People, Needs, Oracles

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• Throughout all history, the great wise men and teachers, philosophers, and prophets have disagreed with one another on many different things. It is only on this one point that they are in complete and unanimous agreement. We become what we think about

  Earl Nightingale

  Wise, Teacher, Attitude

  Robert C. Worstell, Earl Nightingale (2012). “How to Completely Change Your Life in 30 Seconds”, p.15, Lulu Press, Inc

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• If one is devoid of hope and thanksgiving, he cannot for long remain sinless, for he will, in despair, have slackened his resolve. Feelings of futility foster vulnerability. Self-pity is such a busy stagehand, rearranging the scenery to help sin make its entrance. No wonder the prophets say that without faith in the Lord, there is no hope.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Adversity, Self, Long

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• Our attitude toward abortion . . . is fixed by our knowledge that according to an eternal plan all of the spirit children of God must come to this earth for a glorious purpose, and that individual identity began long before conception and will continue for all the eternities to come. We rely on the prophets of God who have told us that while there may be 'rare' exceptions, 'the practice of elective abortion is fundamentally contrary to the Lord's injunction, 'Thou shalt not . . . kill, nor do anything like unto it'

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Children, Attitude, Practice

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• For I have shown from the Scriptures, that no one of the sons of Adam is as to everything, and absolutely, called God, or named Lord. But that He is Himself in His own right, beyond all men who ever lived, God, and Lord, and King Eternal, and the Incarnate Word, proclaimed by all the prophets, the apostles, and by the Spirit Himself, may be seen by all who have attained to even a small portion of the truth. Now the Scriptures would not have testified these things of Him, if, like others, He had been a mere man.

  Irenaeus of Lyons

  Jesus, Kings, Son

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• Let us serve Him faithfully as our Master. Let us obey Him loyally as our King. Let us study His teachings as our Prophet. Let us work diligently after Him as our Example. Let us look anxiously for Him as our coming redeemer of body as well as soul. But above all let us prize Him as our Sacrifice, and rest our whole weight on His death as atonement for sin. Let His blood be more precious in our eyes every year we live. Whatever else we glory in about Christ, let us glory above all things in His cross.

  J. C. Ryle

  Christian, Jesus, Kings

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• We must meditate before, during and after everything we do. The prophet says: "I will pray, and then I will understand." This is the way we can easily overcome the countless difficulties we have to face day after day, which, after all, are part of our work. In meditation we find the strength to bring Christ to birth in ourselves and in others.

  Carlo Borromeo

  Prayer, Meditation, Overcoming

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• The whole inspiration of our civilization springs from the teachings of Christ and the lessons of the prophets. To read the Bible for these fundamentals is a necessity of American life.

  Herbert Hoover

  Religious, Spring, Teaching

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• Artists are prophets. They define the meaning of our lives and point the way.

  Tony Bouza

  Art, Way, Our Lives

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• Freedom of expression does not extend to insulting the Prophets of Allah.

  Anjem Choudary

  Expression, Insulting, Doe

  "Radical imam Anjem Choudary on Charlie Hebdo attack". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. January 8, 2015.

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• Rich meanings of the prophet-Spring adorn, / Unseen, this colorless sky of folded showers, / And folded winds...

  Alice Meynell

  Spring, Wind, Sky

  Alice Meynell (1913). “Poems”

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• [The canonization of the Koran involved the] attribution of several, partially overlapping, collections of logia [sayings] (exhibiting a distinctly Mosaic imprint) to the image of a Biblical prophet (modified by the material of the Muhammadan evangelium into an Arabian man of God) with a traditional message of salvation (modified by the influence of Rabbinic Judaism into the unmediated and finally immutable word of God).

  John Wansbrough

  Biblical, Men, Islam

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• The Prophet introduced a system of prayer in that it was interwoven into man's daily work: a prayer in the morning when he arose from his bed; a prayer at lunch time, as an indication that if his body needed a diet, so did his spirit; a prayer in the afternoon when he retired from his daily work; a prayer at sunset and a prayer when going to bed.

  Muhammad Ali

  Morning, Prayer, Sunset

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• Men are rapists, batterers, plunderers, killers; these same men are religious prophets, poets, heroes, figures of romance, adventure, accomplishment, figures ennobled by tragedy and defeat. Men have claimed the earth, called it 'Her'. Men ruin Her. Men have airplanes, guns, bombs, poisonous gases, weapons so perverse and deadly that they defy any authentically human imagination.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Religious, Hero, Airplane

  Andrea Dworkin (1989). “Pornography: men possessing women”, Plume

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• To be a teacher you must be a prophet - because you are trying to prepare people for a world thirty to fifty years into the future.

  Gordon Brown

  Teacher, Teaching, Learning

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• If Moses is our lawgiver [Old Testament prophet given laws by God] at this time let us obey him, not in part only, but wholly, and put every Sabbath breaker, blasphemer, and adulterer to death.

  Gerald Heaney

  Law, Death Penalty, Old Testament

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• You are challenged to avoid mediocrity, acquire knowledge from the sages of antiquity, the achievements of the scientific present, and the prophets of the living God. Isaiah once spoke as follows, In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee

  John H. Vandenberg

  Life, Time, Knowledge

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• Which direction do we take? The one prompted by the passions or the one indicated by the star which shines in your conscience? The Magi heard the answer: "In Bethlehem of Judea; for so it is written by the prophet" (Mt 2: 5), and, enlightened by these words, they chose to press forward to the very end.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Faith, Stars, Inspiration

  Pope Benedict XVI's address during The XX World Youth Day in Cologne, Germany, w2.vatican.va. August 18, 2005.

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• There will be miracles After the last war is won Science and poetry rule in the new world to come Prophets and angels Gave us the power to see What an amazing future there will be

  Billy Joel

  War, Future, Angel

  Song: Two Thousand Years, Album: River of Dreams, 1993

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• We are workers, not master builders, ministers, not messiahs. We are prophets of a future not our own.

  Oscar Romero

  Life, Ministers, Masters

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• The account he gives of nurses beats everything that even I know of. This young prophet says that they are all drunkards, without exception, Sisters and all, and that there are but two whom the surgeon can trust to give the patients their medicines.

  Florence Nightingale

  Science, Two, Medicine

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• In all church discussions we are apt to forget the second Testament is avowedly only a supplement. Jesus came to complete the law and the prophets. Christianity is completed Judaism, or it is nothing. Christianity is incomprehensible without Judaism, as Judaism is incomplete without Christianity.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Jesus, Law, Church

  Benjamin Disraeli (1845). “Sybil, Or, The Two Nations”, p.130

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• Not our Logical, Mensurative faculty, but our Imaginative one is King over us; I might say, Priest and Prophet to lead us heavenward; or Magician and Wizard to lead us hellward.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Kings, War, Heaven

  "Sartor Resartus: The Historian".

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