Prophet Quotes - Page 27

• Take any path you like; follow any prophet you like; but have only that method which suits your own nature, so that you will be sure to progress.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Progress, Path, Suits

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Vivekananda Reader”, p.167, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

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• Every time we are obedient to the words of the prophets and apostles we reap great blessings. We receive more blessings than we can understand at the time, and we continue to receive blessings long after our initial decision to be obedient.

  Paul V. Johnson

  Blessing, Long, Decision

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• Those who suffer great adversity and sorrow and go on to serve their fellowmen develop a great capacity to understand others. Like the prophets, they have acquired a higher understanding of the mind and will of Christ.

  Carlos H. Amado

  Adversity, Understanding, Mind

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• To be a prophet it is sufficient to be a pessimist.

  Elsa Triolet

  Pessimism, Pessimist, Sufficient

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• Cult leaders are often self-styled prophets who have not studied with great teachers or undergone lengthy training or discipline themselves. . . Many of the most dangerous cultic figures of our times have no such stabilizing context of tradition, lineage or transmission, but are self-proclaimed gurus who sway their followers through their charismatic talents. . . .

  John Welwood

  Teacher, Self, Discipline

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• When Allah granted Prophet Yoosuf (`alayhis-Salaam) physical beauty it caused him to be locked up in the prison; but when Allah granted him knowledge (when he interpreted the dream of the king) it not only took him out of prison, but elevated his rank in society, clearly showing us the virtue of knowledge and that physical beauty does not mean anything.

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  Dream, Kings, Mean

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• A leader always has one major message, and this weaves into everything he or she does. It remains the primary focus. A leader is to some degree a  prophet, a person with a message. Great leader [sic] see things that others don’t. They preach it until others can see it as well. Their message supports the mission. A leader is a preacher, a person who communicates the fire of the mission. Not all preachers are leaders, but all great leaders will be preachers of one sort or another.

  Phil Pringle

  Fire, Focus, Support

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• Truth is neither in the scripture nor in the words of prophets. It is in your heart, feel it, discover it and expand with it.

  Amit Ray

  Heart, Scripture, Truth Is

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• Beware, O earth, the prophet who claims to know the time but never wears a watch.

  Calvin Miller

  Watches, Earth, Claims

  Calvin Miller (1979). “The Finale”, Intervarsity Pr

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• Insulting the Prophet (Peace Be Upon Him) is like trying to spit at the sun, it will only come back in your face.

  Nouman Ali Khan

  Insulting, Trying, Faces

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• Most worshippers of God are intent on the advancement of their own destiny, not on His worship. In India, no one has ever claimed to be a prophet. The reason is that claims to divinity are customary.

  Akbar

  Destiny, Hypocrisy, India

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• Spring is beautiful everywhere, but it is more than beautiful in Lebanon. Spring is the spirit of an unknown God speeding through the world, which, as it reaches Lebanon, pauses, because now it is as at home with the souls of the Prophets and Kings hovering over the land, chanting with the brooks of Judea, the eternal Psalms of Solomon, renewing with the Cedars of Lebanon memories of an ancient glory.

  Khalil Gibran

  Beautiful, Kings, Memories

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• 'Hamas has been looking forward to implement Allah'€™s promise whatever time it might take. The prophet, prayer and peace be upon him, said: The time will not come until Muslims will fight the Jews (and kill them); until the Jews hide behind rocks and trees, which will cry: O Muslim! there is a Jew hiding behind me, come on and kill him!'

  Andrew C. McCarthy

  Prayer, Fighting, Rocks

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• UFO mythology is similar to the message of the classical religions where God sends his Angels as emissaries who offer salvation to those who accept the faith and obey his Prophets. Today, the chariots of the gods are UFOs. What we are witnessing in the past half century is the spawning of a New Age religion.

  Paul Kurtz

  Angel, Past, Age

  Paul Kurtz “Skepticism and Humanism: The New Paradigm”, Transaction Publishers

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• Gospel ministers should not only be like dials on watches, or mile-stones upon the road, but like clocks and larums, to sound the alarm to sinners. Aaron wore bells as well as pomegranates, and the prophets were commanded to lift up their voice like a trumpet. A sleeping sentinel may be the loss of the city.

  Joseph Hall

  Sleep, Loss, Cities

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• Never have I witnessed such sincere hospitality and
  the overwhelming spirit of true brotherhood as is practiced
  by people of all colours and races here in this ancient Holy Land,
  the home of Abraham, Muhammad, and all the other prophets
  of the Holy Scriptures. For the past week, I have been utterly
  speechless and spellbound by the graciousness I see displayed
  all around me by people of all colours.

  Malcolm X

  Home, Past, Land

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.347, Ballantine Books

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• The Lord didn't make Lehi a mere spectator, watching and learning from afar. Instead, the Lord taught his prophet by taking him out of the bleachers and placing him right in the middle of the action.

  John Bytheway

  Afar, Taught, Action

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• I profess the religion of love,
  Love is my religion and my faith.
  My mother is love
  My father is love
  My prophet is love
  My God is love
  I am a child of love
  I have come only to speak of love.

  Rumi

  Mother, Children, Father

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• For virtue is a light and buoyant thing, and all who live in her way fly like clouds as Isaiah says, and as doves with their young ones; but sin is a heavy affair, as another of the prophets says, sitting upon a talent of lead.

  Gregory of Nyssa

  Christian, Clouds, Light

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• If you offer fasting with humility and with mercy, your bones, as Isaiah said, shall be fat, and you shall be like a well-watered garden (cf. Isa. 58:11). So, then, your soul shall grow fat and its virtues also by the spiritual richness of fasting, and your fruits shall be multiplied by the fertility of your mind, so that there may be in you the inebriation of soberness, like that cup of which the Prophet says: 'Your cup which inebriates, how excellent it is' (Ps. 23:5 LXX)!

  Ambrose

  Christian, Spiritual, Humility

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• Zionism is, in sum, the constant and unrelenting effort to realize the national and universal vision of the prophets of Israel.

  Yigal Allon

  Israel, Effort, Vision

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• But I and others, who are right-minded Christians on all points, are assured that there will be a resurrection of the dead, and a thousand years in Jerusalem, which will then be built, adorned, and enlarged, [as] the prophets Ezekiel and Isaiah and others declare.

  Justin Martyr

  Christian, Years, Ezekiel

  Justin Martyr, Aeterna Press (2016). “Dialogue of Justin With a Jew”, p.98, Aeterna Press

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• Bahá'u'lláh is not the Intermediary between other Manifestations and God. Each has His own relation to the Primal Source. But in the sense that Bahá'u'lláh is the greatest Manifestation to yet appear, the One Who consummates the Revelation of Moses; He was the One Moses conversed with in the Burning Bush. In other words Bahá'u'lláh identifies the glory of the Godhead on that occasion with Himself. No distinction can be made amongst the Prophets in the sense that They all proceed from One Source, and are of One Essence. But Their stations and functions in this world are different.

  Shoghi Effendi

  Essence, Burning, World

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• There have been prophets and students who handle the Bible like a child's box of bricks; they explain to us the design and structure and purpose; but as time goes on things do not work out in their way at all. They have mistaken the scaffolding for the structure, while all the time God is working out His purpose with a great and undeterred patience.

  Oswald Chambers

  Children, Work Out, Design

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.31, Discovery House

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• Each time a new baby is born there is a possibility of reprieve. Each child is a new being, a potential prophet, a new spiritual prince, a new spark of light precipitated into the outer darkness.

  R. D. Laing

  Family, Spiritual, Baby

  R.D Laing (1967). “The Politics of Experience”

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