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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• The condition of truth is to allow suffering to speak, it means then that if you have a prophetic sensibility, you are committed to loving others and if you love others, you hate injustice.

  Cornel West

  Hate, Mean, Suffering

  Source: genius.com

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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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• 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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• 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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• I want to be prophetic and take stands and stand with those on the margins, and I want to laugh as much as I can.

  Greg Boyle

  Laughing, Want, Margins

  "Priest Fights Gangs With 'Boundless Compassion'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. May 20, 2010.

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• Love is the crowning grace of humanity.

  Petrarch

  Love Is, Grace, Humanity

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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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• Christians got a lot of work to do. But, the spirit of Dorothy Day is alive. Martin Luther King is still alive. Malcolm X and the prophetic Islamic tradition is still alive. We can't lose sight of those prophetic religious folk who, even given their kin in the same tradition, says, you all are wrong on this, but we're still in the same tradition.

  Cornel West

  Christian, Religious, Kings

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• There is a prophetic release that occurs in a church or an individual who fasts continually for forty days.

  Jentezen Franklin

  Church, Fasting, Individual

  Jentezen Franklin (2014). “Fasting: Opening the Door to a Deeper, More Intimate, More Powerful Relationship with God”, p.61, Charisma Media

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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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• 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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• Why?' is the prophetic question.

  Jim Wallis

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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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• The task of prophetic ministry is to nurture, nourish, and evoke a consciousness and perception alternative to the consciousness and perception of the dominant culture around us.

  Walter Brueggemann

  Perception, Tasks, Ministry

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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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• 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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  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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• 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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• In my town we studied the five Books of Moses, but rarely the prophets. We studied the Talmud so much that I sometimes knew the prophets because of the prophetic quotations in the Talmud. We almost never studied the prophets themselves.

  Elie Wiesel

  Book, Towns, Sometimes

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• Some people believe the alternative to bad religion is secularism, but that's wrong . . . . The answer to bad religion is better religion--prophetic rather than partisan, broad and deep instead of narrow, and based on values as opposed to ideology.

  Jim Wallis

  Believe, People, Alternatives

  Jim Wallis (2009). “The Great Awakening: Seven Ways to Change the World”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• For me the prophetic has to do with mustering the courage to love, to empathize, to exercise compassion, and to be committed to justice.

  Cornel West

  Exercise, Compassion, Justice

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• The people with the best sense of what is essential to a community, of what gives and maintains its spirit, are often doing very humble, manual tasks. It is often the poorest person - the one who has a handica[p, is] ill or old - who is the most prophetic. People who carry responsibility must be close to them and know what they think, because it is often they who are free enough to see with the greatest clarity the needs, beauty and pain of the community.

  Jean Vanier

  Pain, Humble, Responsibility

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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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• 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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