Prophetic Quotes

• The Church right now has more fashion than passion, is more pathetic than prophetic, is more superficial than supernatural.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Fashion, Passion, Church

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• What is needed desperately today is prophetic insight. Scholars can interpret the past; it takes prophets to interpret the present.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Past, Religion, Today

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• The poor tell us who we are, the prophets tell us who we could be, so we hide the poor, and kill the prophets.

  Philip Berrigan

  Truth, Who We Are, Killing

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• If we teach by the Spirit and you listen by the Spirit, some one of us will touch on your circumstance, sending a personal prophetic epistle just to you.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Spirit, Circumstances, Teach

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• The prophetic word was never meant to be a trophy. It was meant to be a weapon.

  Jacob Peterson

  Weapons, Trophies, Were Meant To Be

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• Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.

  Petrarch

  Love, Life, Heart

  "Notable Thoughts About Women: A Literary Mosaic". Book by Maturin Murray Ballou, p. 311, 1882.

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• Why?' is the prophetic question.

  Jim Wallis

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• A church can wither as surely under the ministry of soulless Bible exposition as it can where no Bible is given. To be effective the preacher's message must be alive; it must alarm, arouse, challenge; it must be God's present voice to a particular people. Then, and not till then, is it the prophetic word and the man himself a prophet.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Men, Voice, People

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• Love is the crowning grace of humanity.

  Petrarch

  Love Is, Grace, Humanity

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• True artists are prophets. I don't want to be that prophetic in that sense because it's so lonely.

  Yoko Ono

  Lonely, Artist, Want

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• The Resistance is a moral certainty, not a poetic one. The true poet never uses words in order to punish someone. His judgment belongs to a creative order; it is not formulated as a prophetic scripture.

  Salvatore Quasimodo

  Order, Creative, Use

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• Your masters at Oxford have taught you to idolize reason, drying up the prophetic capacities of your heart!

  Umberto Eco

  Heart, Oxford, Taught

  Umberto Eco (1995). “Name of the Rose”, p.75, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We desperately need seers who can see through the mist- Christian leaders with prophetic vision.  Unless they come soon it will be too late for this generation.  And if they do come we will no doubt crucify a few of them in the name of our worldly orthodoxy.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Names, Leader

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• Ragamuffins are simple, direct and honest. Their speech is unaffected. They are slow to claim, "God told me..." As they make their way through the world, they bear wordless, prophetic witness.

  Brennan Manning

  Simple, World, Speech

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  Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.

  Lord Byron

  Love, Smile, Romantic

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.809, Delphi Classics

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• The church must be reminded that it is not the master, or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Christian, Church, States

  1963 Strength to Love.

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• For if the mystery concealed of old is made manifest to the Apostles through the prophetic writings, and if the prophets, being wise men, understood what proceeded from their own mouths, then the prophets knew what was made manifest to the Apostles.

  Origen

  Wise, Writing, Men

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• Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.

  John Milton

  Experience, Strain

  'Il Penseroso' (1645) l. 173

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• Blake has always been a favorite, the lyrics, not so much the prophetic books, but I suppose Yeats influenced me more as a young poet, and the American, Robert Frost.

  Anne Stevenson

  Book, Frost, Yeats

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• I thought some of Mrs. White's material was prophetic. I felt some of her insights were extremely helpful and I regarded her as a sister in the Lord. I wasn't out to attack Ellen White's character.

  Walter Martin

  Character, White, Helpful

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• The apostolic writings are of three kinds: historical, didactic, and prophetic.

  Philip Schaff

  Writing, Historical, Three

  Philip Schaff (2013). “Church History”, p.462, Lulu Press, Inc

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• And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew, Till old experience to attain To something like prophetic strain.

  John Milton

  Stars, Cells, Heaven

  c.1631 Il Penseroso, l.167-74.

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• Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.

  Lord Kelvin

  Silly, Creativity, Science

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• When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic.

  Jean Rostand

  Truth, Future, Science

  Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”

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• Literature is the voice of the age and the state; the character, energy, and resources of the country are reflected and imaged forth in the conceptions of its great minds; they are organs of the time; they speak not their own language, they scarce think their own thoughts; but under an impulse like the prophetic enthusiasm of old, they must feel and utter the sentiments which society inspires.

  Edward Everett

  Country, Character, Thinking

  Edward Everett (1839). “Selections from the Works of Edward Everett: With a Sketch of His Life”, p.127

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