Prophecy Quotes

• The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

  John Ruskin

  Women, Soul, Doe

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.91, University of Virginia Press

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• Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Confidence, Self

  Twitter post from Oct 6, 2014

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• There is no question but that if Jesus Christ, or a great prophet from another religion, were to come back today, he would find it virtually impossible to convince anyone of his credentials despite the fact that the vast evangelical machine on American television is predicated on His imminent return among us sinners.

  Peter Ustinov

  Jesus, Machines, Television

  "The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations" edited by Robert Andrews, (p. 742), 1993.

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• There is a history in all men's lives, Figuring the nature of the times deceased, The which observed, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life, which in their seeds And weak beginnings lie intreasured.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Men, May

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 3, sc. 1, l. 80

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• Bible prophecy helps us to better understand the future and realize the urgent need to spread the Gospel. It motivates us to personal purity and gives us hope in a hopeless age.

  Tim LaHaye

  Christian, Giving, Age

  Tim F. LaHaye, Thomas Ice (2002). “Charting the End Times Prophecy Study Guide”, p.17, Harvest House Publishers

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• Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.

  Umberto Eco

  Fear, Humility, Religion

  Umberto Eco (1995). “Name of the Rose”, p.503, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

  James Lane Allen

  Positive, Success, Dream

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• Don't ever prophesy; for if you prophesy wrong, nobody will forget it; and if you prophesy right, nobody will remember it.

  Josh Billings

  Remember, Forget, Ifs

  Affurisms (1865).

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• I do not pretend to be a divine man, but I do believe in divine guidance, divine power, and in the fulfillment of divine prophecy. I am not educated, nor am I an expert in any particular field but I am sincere, and my sincerity is my credentials.

  Malcolm X

  Believe, Men, Divine Guidance

  Spike Lee, Ralph Wiley, Malcolm X (1992). “By any means necessary: the trials and tribulations of the making of Malcolm X”, Hyperion Books

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• Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous.

  George Eliot

  Mistake, Atheism, Form

  'Middlemarch' (1871-2) bk. 1, ch. 10

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• As a child of God, you must realize that you are on the winning side of prophecy; until you win it is not over!

  Chris Oyakhilome

  Children, Winning, Sides

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• Ancestral voices prophesying war.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  War, Voice

  "Kubla Khan" l. 29 (1816)

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• The Bible is God's declaratory revelation to man containing the great truths about God, about man, about history, about salvation, and about prophecy that God wanted us to know. The Bible could be trusted just as much as if God had taken the pen and written the words Himself.

  John F Walvoord

  Taken, Men, Revelations

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• My gran'ther's rule was safer 'n 't is to crow: Don't never prophesy - onless ye know.

  James Russell Lowell

  Crow, Grans, Knows

  James Russell Lowell (1890). “The Works of James Russell Lowell: Poetical works”

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• Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.

  Nas

  People, Trying, Generations

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Follow your dreams, transform your life, take the path that leads to God. Perform your miracles. Cure. Make prophecies. Listen to your guardian angel. Transform yourself. Be a warrior, and be happy as you wage the good fight. Take risks.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Angel, Fighting

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• Architecture is either the prophecy of an unformed society or the tomb of a finished one.

  Lewis Mumford

  Architecture, Tombs, Finished

  Lewis Mumford (1975). “Findings and keepings: analects for an autobiography”, Not Avail

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• America is woven of many strands; I would recognize them and let it so remain. It's 'winner take nothing' that is the great truth of our country or of any country. Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat. Our fate is to become one, and yet many - This in not prophecy, but description.

  Ralph Ellison

  Life, Country, Fate

  Ralph Ellison (2010). “Invisible Man”, p.590, Vintage

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• The people who were honored in the Bible were the false prophets. It was the ones we call the prophets who were jailed and driven into the desert.

  Noam Chomsky

  People, Desert, Driven

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• I'm an angel. I kill firstborns while their mamas watch. I turn cities into salt. I even, when I feel like it, rip the souls from little girls, and from now till kingdom come, the only thing you can count on in your existence is never understanding why.

  Christopher Walken

  Girl, Rip, Angel

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• The fact that creative powers come from an area of the mind that seems to be independent of the conscious will, and often emerge with a good deal of emotional disturbance in their wake, provides the chief analogy between prophecy and the arts... Some people pursue wholeness and integration, others get smashed up, and fragments are rescued from the smash of an intensity that the wholeness and integration people do not reach.

  Northrop Frye

  Art, Independent, Emotional

  "The Collected Works of Northrop Frye, Volume 19: 'The Secular Scripture' and Other Writings on Critical Theory, 1976-1991". Book by Northrop Frye, November 1, 2005.

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• The Old Testament contains over 300 references to the Messiah that were fulfilled in Jesus Christ. Computations using the science of probability on just 8 of these prophecies show the chance that someone could have fulfilled all 8 prophecies is 10 (to the 17th power), or 1 in 100 quadrillion.

  Fritz Ridenour

  Bible, Jesus, Chance

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• The self-fulfilling prophecy is, in the beginning, a false definition of the situation evoking a new behavior which makes the originally false conception come true. The specious validity of the self-fulfilling prophecy perpetuates a reign of error. For the prophet will cite the actual course of events as proof that he was right from the very beginning.

  Robert K. Merton

  Science, Errors, Self

  "The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy" (1948)

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• No first step can be really great; it must of necessity possess more of prophecy than of achievement; nevertheless it is by the first step that a man marks the value, not only of his cause, but of himself.

  Katherine Cecil Thurston

  Time, Men, Firsts

  Katherine Cecil Thurston (2008). “The Masquerader (EasyRead Super Large 18pt Edition)”, p.285, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The modern [endtimes] notion has greatly damped the zeal of the church for missions, and the sooner it is shown to be unscriptural the better for the cause of God. It neither consorts with prophecy, honours God, nor inspires the church with ardour

  Charles Spurgeon

  Inspire, Church, Causes

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