Prophet Quotes - Page 17

• Sometimes when we hear a song we breathe deeply and sigh. This reminds the prophet that the soul arises from heavenly harmony. In thinking about this, he was aware that the soul itself has something in itself of this music.

  Hildegard of Bingen

  Song, Thinking, Soul

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• The more I studied the Bible, however, I had to admit that the prosperity message did not line up with the tenor of Scripture.  My heart was crushd to think that I led so many people astray.  I was appalled that I could have been so wrong, and I was deeply grateful that God had not struck me dead as a false prophet.

  Jim Bakker

  Grateful, Heart, Thinking

  Ken Abraham, Jim Bakker (1998). “Prosperity and the Coming Apocalyspe”, p.23, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• It does not pay a prophet to be too specific.

  L. Sprague de Camp

  Doe, Pay

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• I am in Birmingham because injustice is here. Just as the eighth century prophets left their little villages and carried their "thus saith the Lord" far beyond the boundaries of their home towns; and just as the Apostle Paul left his little village of Tarsus and carried the gospel of Jesus Christ to practically every hamlet and city of the Graeco-Roman world, I too am compelled to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my particular home town. Like Paul, I must constantly respond to the Macedonian call for aid.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Jesus, Home, Cities

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• I understand from what the Lord has revealed to us through the prophets that people are his greatest concern. We are his children. We are somebody, as Elder Ashton so wonderfully stated this morning. We are his children, and he continually reveals himself through the prophets so that one day we can be like him.

  Paul H. Dunn

  Morning, Children, People

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• The Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, said, When Allah loves a people, He tries them.

  Leila Aboulela

  People, Trying, Prophet Muhammad

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• The Prophet defeated the enemies of Islam even when he and his followers were small in number.

  Abu Bakar Bashir

  Numbers, Enemy, Islam

  "'We Should Not Fear Being Called Radical'". Interview with Farish A. Noor, theseoultimes.com.

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• I will raise up prophets to make conflicting pronouncements that inevitably will be garbled in transcription, resulting in mutually exclusive definitions of orthodoxy from which the open-minded will flee in dismay.

  Sheri S. Tepper

  Definitions, Orthodoxy, Open Minded

  "The Visitor". Book by Sheri S. Tepper, 2002.

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• Prophecy and prescience - How can they be put to the test in the face of unanswered questions? Consider: How much is actual prediction and how much is the prophet shaping the future to fit the prophecy? What are the harmonics inherent in the act of prophecy? Does the prophet see the future or does he see a line of weakness, a fault or cleavage that he may shatter with words or decisions as a diamond-cutter shatters his gem with a blow of the knife?

  Frank Herbert

  Blow, Knives, Decision

  "Dune: The Gateway Collection". Book by Frank Herbert, 2012.

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• Prophets have a way of dying by violence.

  Frank Herbert

  Dying, Way, Violence

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.366, Penguin

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• Rock stars are like prophets. There's something about somebody who can get up on a stage and sing. And then when they write you songs, forget it, okay?

  Pamela Anderson

  Song, Stars, Writing

  "Pamela Anderson: What I've Learned" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. April 28, 2015.

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• Insofar as I think about postmodernism at all, and it doesn't exactly keep me awake at nights, I think of it as something that happens to one, not a style one affects. We're postmoderns because we're not modernists. The modernist writers—Pound, Eliot, Joyce, Stevens, Yeats, Woolf, Williams—spoke with a kind of vatic authority: they were really the last of the Romantics, for whom authorship itself was like being a solitary prophet in the wasteland.

  Jonathan Raban

  Night, Thinking, Style

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• Allah isgreat, no doubt, and Juxtaposition his prophet.

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Doubt, Juxtaposition, No Doubt

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• What believer sees a disturbing omission or infelicity? The text, whether of prophet or of poet, expands for whatever we can put into it, and even his bad grammar is sublime.

  George Eliot

  Omission, Sublime, Poet

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.42, Penguin

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• The objective of false prophets and teachers of whatever stripe is...the influence and control of the minds of men.

  Ron Dart

  Education, Teacher, Lying

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• The LORD has raised up prophets for us in Babylon.

  Jeremiah

  Lord, Babylon, Raised

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• Do not let the prophets and diviners among you deceive you. Do not listen to the dreams you encourage them to have.

  Jeremiah

  Dream, Deceiving

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• Predictions are uttered by prophets (free of charge); by clairvoyants (who usually charge a fee, and are therefore more honored in their day than prophets); and by futurologists (salaried). Prediction is the business of prophets, clairvoyants, and futurologists. It is not the business of novelists. A novelist's business is lying.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Lying, Novelists, Predictions

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2000). “The Left Hand of Darkness”, p.8, Penguin

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• Reason deserves to be called a prophet; for in showing us the consequence and effect of our actions in the present, does it not tell us what the future will be?

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Doe, Our Actions, Reason

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Studies in Pessimism (illustrated)”, p.35, Full Moon Publications

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• If the Latter-day Saints will walk up to their privileges, and exercise faith in the name of Jesus Christ, and live in the enjoyment of the fullness of the Holy Ghost constantly day by day, there is nothing on the face of the earth that they could ask for, that would not be given to them. The Lord is waiting to be very gracious unto this people, and to pour out upon them riches, honor, glory, and power, even that they may possess all things according to the promises He has made through His apostles and prophets.

  Brigham Young

  Jesus, Exercise, Names

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• There are four different theories concerning Divine Providence; they are all ancient, known from the time of the Prophets, when the true law was revealed to enlighten these dark regions.

  Maimonides

  Dark, Law, Different

  Moses Maimonides (2016). “Guide for the perplexed”, p.1078, Moses Maimonides

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• The prophet Isaiah ... points out what will be the cause of this change; for he says that hatred, quarrel, and fighting will come to an end, because men will have a true knowledge of God. "They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters which cover the sea" (Isa. xi. ver. 9) Note it.

  Maimonides

  Hurt, Fighting, Men

  "Guide for the Perplexed". Book by Maimonides, Ch.11, 1190.

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• I regard Abraham as my ancestor. Some of the greatest inspiration I have got has come from what we call the Old Testament prophets and what Jews would say "our prophets."

  Desmond Tutu

  Inspiration, Old Testament, Abraham

  "Interview: Desmond Tutu on gay rights, the Middle East and Pope Francis". Interview with Sarah Pulliam Bailey, www.washingtonpost.com. September 13, 2013.

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• Know that no one can have indulged in the Holy Writers sufficiently, unless he has governed churches for a hundred years with the prophets, such as Elijah and Elisha, John the Baptist, Christ and the apostles... We are beggars: this is true.

  Martin Luther

  Years, Church, Baptists

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• I have one underlying principle in mind: the principle of Muslim democracy. It is my belief that our salvation lies in following the golden rules of conduct set for us by our great lawgiver, the Prophet of Islam.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Lying, Mind, Islam

  "World: South Asia Screening the life of Jinnah". news.bbc.co.uk. September 13, 1998.

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