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• If I understand Dirac correctly, his meaning is this: there is no God, and Dirac is his Prophet.

  Wolfgang Pauli

  Doubt, Atheism, There Is No God

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• President Hinckley is not only a living prophet but also a living seer. He sees things that others do not see. He has the gift of discernment; he is an optimist and a realist. . . . Through President Hinckley's divine guidance, the Church has received many far-reaching blessings, many that are not obvious. I strongly encourage each of you to more closely follow his counsel and guidance, for truly 'a seer hath the Lord raised up unto his people' (Moses 6:36).

  David E. Sorensen

  Blessing, Divine Guidance, People

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• Man carries the world in his head, the whole astronomy and chemistry suspended in a thought. Because the history of nature is charactered in his brain, therefore he is the prophet and discoverer of her secrets. Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Science, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1491, Delphi Classics

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• Cults and prophets proclaiming the imminent end of the world have been with us for several millennia, and it has been another sour sort of fun to ridicule them the morning after, when they discover that their calculations were a little off. But, just as with Marxists, there are some among them who are working hard to "hasten the inevitable," not merely anticipating the End Days with joy in their hearts, but taking political action to bring about the conditions they think are the prerequisites for that occasion.

  Daniel Dennett

  Morning, Fun, Heart

  Daniel C. Dennett (2007). “Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon”, p.294, Penguin UK

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• In your hands or that of any other person, so much power would, no doubt, be dangerous. I am the only man in the world whom it would be safe to trust with it. Remember, I am a prophet!

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Trust, Men, Hands

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• The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities.

  Benjamin Cardozo

  Eye, Eternity, Fixed

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• Among the principles of the Ahlus Sunnah wal Jama'ah lie the attitude of peace and purity of their heart and tongue towards the Sahaba(Companions) of the Prophet (saw).

  Ibn Taymiyyah

  Wisdom, Attitude, Lying

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• This world is full of remedies. But you have no remedy until God opens a window for you. You may not be aware of that remedy just now. In the hour of need it will be made clear to you. The Prophet said God made a remedy for every pain.

  Rumi

  Wisdom, Pain, Islamic

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• I am going to give you such a weapon that the police and the army will not be able to stand against it. It is the weapon of the Prophet, but you are not aware of it. That weapon is patience and righteousness. No power on earth can stand against it.

  Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

  Army, Giving, Police

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• Jesus' life was a storm of controversy. The apostles, like the prophets before them, could hardly go a day without controversy. Paul said that he debated daily in the marketplace. To avoid controversy is to avoid Christ. We can have peace, but it is a servile and carnal peace where truth is slain in the streets.

  R. C. Sproul

  Jesus, Storm, Christ

  R. C. Sproul (2011). “Essential Truths of the Christian Faith”, p.18, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• We can now say with considerable confidence that the Bible is not a history of anyone's past.... The Bible's "Israel" is a literary fiction... Not only have Adam and Eve and the flood story passed over to mythology, but we can no longer talk about a time of the patriarchs. There never was a "United Monarchy" in history and it is meaningless to speak of pre-exilic prophets and their writings... The Bible deals with the origin traditions of a people who never existed as such

  Thomas L. Thompson

  Bible, Writing, Past

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• Isn't it interesting that all of the biblical prophets and psalmists were poets?

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Biblical, Interesting, Poet

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• Well, our friend Dirac, too, has a religion, and its guiding principle is "God does not exist and Dirac is His prophet."

  Wolfgang Pauli

  Guiding Principles, There Is No God, Wells

  "Physics and Beyond : Encounters and Conversations" by Werner Heisenberg, (p. 87), 1971.

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• Let a thing here be noted, that the prophet of God sometimes may teach treason against kings, and yet neither he nor such as obey the word, spoken in the Lord's name by him, offend God.

  John Knox

  Kings, Names, May

  John Knox (1842). “Writings of the Rev. John Knox: Minister of God's Word in Scotland”

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• I’m not a prophet. I’m a destiny-changer. It’s all right to prophesy, but the best thing to do is change things, if you’ve got the power.

  Sun Ra

  Destiny, Things To Do, Best Things

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• A prophet is not without honor except in his own country among his own people.

  Sun Ra

  Music, Country, People

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• A prophet or an achiever must never mind an occasional absurdity, it is an occupational risk.

  Oswald Mosley

  Risk, Mind, Occasional

  Oswald Mosley (2012). “My Life - Oswald Mosley”, p.238, Black House Publishing Ltd

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• Historians are prophets with their face turned backward.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Faces, Historian

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• This guy (Pat Robertson) obviously wants to be a prophet so bad. I wonder if he walks around at home dressed up in a bed sheet, talking Aramaic, maybe parting the waters in the bathtub occasionally, just to keep in practice?

  Pat Condell

  Home, Talking, Practice

  YouTube Channel "Pat Condell"/"Hook, Line And Rapture", www.youtube.com. January 08, 2008.

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• According to Muslim teachings, God first revealed His word in the Holy Qur'an to the prophet, Muhammad, during the month of Ramadan. That word has guided billions of believers across the centuries, and those believers built a culture of learning and literature and science. All the world continues to benefit from this faith and its achievements.

  George W. Bush

  Inspiration, Teaching, Achievement

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• I want education for the sons and daughters of the Taliban and all the terrorists and extremists. I do not even hate the Talib who shot me. Even if there was a gun in my hand and he was standing in front of me, I would not shoot him. This is the compassion I have learned from Mohamed, the prophet of mercy, Jesus Christ and Lord Buddha.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Daughter, Mother, Jesus

  Malala Yousafzai's speech to the UN General Assembly, www.independent.co.uk. July 12, 2013.

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• As [Gershom] Scholem explains, this [Shabbetaian] doctrine is connected to the idea that 'the elect are fundamentally different from the crowd and not to be judged by its standards. Standing under a new spiritual law and representing as it were a new kind of reality, they are beyond good and evil'. Strauss's philosopher-prophet is a secularized version of the same conceit.

  Shadia Drury

  Spiritual, Reality, Law

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• This depression comes over me whenever the Lord is preparing a larger blessing for my ministry; the cloud is black before it breaks, and overshadows before it yields its deluge of mercy. Depression has now become to me as a prophet in rough clothing, a John the Baptist, heralding the nearer coming of my Lord's richer benison

  Charles Spurgeon

  Blessing, Clouds, Yield

  Charles Spurgeon (2009). “Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon”, p.110, Barbour Publishing

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• The church as a whole has strayed quite far from biblical evangelism; that is, sharing the Gospel in the way that Jesus did, the way the Apostle Paul did, and the rest of the disciples and prophets in Scripture.

  Kirk Cameron

  Jesus, Biblical, Church

  "Kirk Cameron: The Gospel Truth". Interview with Laura Bagby, www.cbn.com.

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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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