Prophet Quotes - Page 18

• 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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• The drinking of coffee is an absolute sin! Our Glorious Prophet did not partake of coffee because he knew it dulled the intellect, caused ulcers, hernia and sterility; he understood that coffee was nothing but the Devil's ruse.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Drinking, Coffee, Devil

  Orhan Pamuk (2011). “My Name Is Red”, p.14, Faber & Faber

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• The prophet and the quack are alike admired for a generation, and admired for the wrong reasons.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Generations, Reason, Quacks

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• la ilaha il-Allah, wa Muhammadu... (There is no god but God and Muhammed [is His prophet

  Saddam Hussein

  Hussein, There Is No God, Saddam

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• Before His visible advent in the flesh the Logos of God dwelt among the patriarchs and prophets in a spiritual manner, prefiguring the mysteries of His advent. After His incarnation He is present in a similar way not only to those who are still beginners, nourishing them spiritually and leading them toward the maturity of divine perfection, but also to the perfect, secretly pre-delineating in them the features of His future advent as if in an ikon.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Spiritual, Maturity

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• The Quran says nothing about the veil, except for an injunction to veil the bosom, which is obvious. As for the face, Muhammad's wife Khadijeh never wore the veil, nor did the other wives of the Prophet after Khadijeh died. [...] The ulema have twisted the Quran with their hadith, always twisting it toward those in power, until the message Muhammad laid out so clearly, straight from God, has been reversed, and good Muslim women are made like slaves again, or worse.

  Kim Stanley Robinson

  Wife, Veils, Hadith

  "The Years of Rice and Salt". Book by Kim Stanley Robinson, 2002.

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• For every prophet there are a thousand interpreters to distort the essence of the religion, to replace the bright flame with the heat of the inquisitors' pyres.

  Sergei Lukyanenko

  Flames, Essence, Heat

  Sergei Lukyanenko (2006). “Night Watch”, Miramax

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• [The Jews] tried to kill the principles of all religions with the same mentality in which they betrayed Jesus Christ and the same way they tried to betray and kill the Prophet Muhammad.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Jesus, Principles, Betrayed

  "The disappearance of the Jews", www.economist.com. May 10, 2001.

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• Creation has the truth written all over it - the age of the universe, the history of the world - but nine-tenths of mankind either don't know it or think it's a sham, because it isn't what their book or their prophet says, and it isn't cozy or manipulable enough.

  Sheri S. Tepper

  Book, Thinking, Age

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

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• Any Name of God in any language is worthy of respect but the original Name of God in the Semitic language is Allah. This (Semitic) is the language of the celestial entities. It is by this Name that the angels call upon God and it is attached to the Title of every Prophet.

  Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi

  Angel, Names, Titles

  "The Religion of God". Book by Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi, en.wikisource.org. 2000.

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• The First Command was to 'Multiply' and the Prophet taught us that Dominion & powr in the great Future would be Comensurate with the no [number] of 'Wives Childin & Friends' that we inheret here and that our great mission to earth was to Organize a Neculi of Heaven to take with us. To the increase of which there would be no end.

  Benjamin F. Johnson

  Taught Us, Numbers, Wife

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• The Golden Age is the most implausible of all dreams. But for it men have given up their life and strength; for the sake of it prophets have died and been slain; without it the people will not live and cannot die.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Dream, Men, People

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• Why, all the Saints and Sages who discuss'd Of the Two Worlds so wisely - they are thrust Like foolish Prophets forth; their Words to Scorn Are scattered, and their mouths are stopped with Dust.

  Omar Khayyam

  Dust, Two, Atheism

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• The Revelations of Devout and Learn'd Who rose before us, and as Prophets burn'd, Are all but Stories, which, awoke from Sleep They told their comrades, and to Sleep return'd.

  Omar Khayyam

  Sleep, Rose, Atheism

  Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald, Christopher Decker (1997). “Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition”, p.186, University of Virginia Press

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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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• Everybody has a different opinion in this league and nobody is a prophet. I personally don't know who will win the league. I managed 1,600 games so, if Nani knows, he must be 1,600 times more intelligent than I am.

  Arsene Wenger

  Intelligent, Winning, Games

  "Arsene Wenger Mocks Nani for Dismissing Arsenal's Premier League Title Chances". www.telegraph.co.uk. December 23, 2010.

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• We should ask ourselves: What are the Brethren saying? The living prophets can open the visions of eternity; they give counsel on how to overcome the world. We cannot know what that counsel is if we do not listen.

  James E. Faust

  Religious, Blessing, Giving

  "Reach Up for the Light".

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• Certainly, Gandhi is not inferior to Christ in goodness and sanctity, and he surpasses him in touching humility. Gandhi is the prophet of hope in this age of pessimism and disillusionment. He is a promise of sanity in the madness induced by our world's heedless drinking at the fount of war.

  Sudhir Kakar

  War, Drinking, Humility

  Sudhir Kakar (2008). “The Seeker: A Novel”, p.76, Shambhala Publications

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• No mighty king, no ambitious emperor, no pope, or prophet ever dreamt of such an awesome pulpit, so potent a magic wand.

  Fred W. Friendly

  Kings, Power, Media

  "Presidential Television: A Twentieth Century Fund report". Book by Newton N. Minow, John Bartlow Martin and Lee M. Mitchell, 1973.

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• The greatest miracle of the Bible is that the prophets of Israel could keep a religion as clean as a hounds tooth amid all the corruption and idolatry of the nations surrounding them.

  Billy Graham

  Israel, Miracle, Religion

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• We fundamentalists are a pack of mood-loving showoffs. I'm sure the Minor Prophets would have found subject for correction.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Mood, Found, Packs

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• There now remain only a few books, which they call books of the lesser prophets; and as I have already shown that the greater are impostors, it would be cowardice to disturb the repose of the little ones. Let them sleep, then, in the arms of their nurses, the priests, and both be forgotten together.

  Thomas Paine

  Book, Sleep, Nurse

  Thomas Paine (1830). “The Theological Works of Thomas Paine: To which are Added the Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar”, p.123

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• Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly; and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men.

  Sophocles

  Men, Demise, He Man

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• Any and all religions are real, the genuine article, to their practitioners. There can never be one religion, prophet, or savior that will satisfy all six billion humans. Each of us must find our ideal way to attune with deity.

  Scott Cunningham

  Real, Way, Six

  Scott Cunningham (2010). “Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner”, p.26, Llewellyn Worldwide

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• If men saw that a term was set to their troubles, they would find strength in some way to withstand the hocus-pocus and intimidations of the prophets.

  Lucretius

  Men, Saws, Hocus Pocus

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