Prophet Quotes

• Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said: By his good character a believer will attain the degree of one who prays during the night and fasts during the day.

  Abu Dawood

  Wisdom, Religious, Peace

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• The prophets and seers and great men and women, past and present, were made great by what they perceived from God, not by what they were taught by men.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Past, Men, Taught

  Wallace D. Wattles (2015). “Wallace D. Wattles Ultimate Collection – 10 Books in One Volume: The Science of Getting Rich, The Science of Being Well, The Science of Being Great, How to Get What You Want and more: From one of the New Thought pioneers, author of Making of the Man Who Can or How to Promote Yourself and New Science of Living and Healing or Health Through New Thought and Fasting”, p.184, e-artnow

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• The Prophet Muhammad (s) said: "Do not turn away a poor man...even if all you can give is half a date. If you love the poor and bring them near you...God will bring you near Him on the Day of Resurrection."

  Muhammad ibn Isa at-Tirmidhi

  Positive, Men, Giving

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• It is impossible for anyone who studies the life and character of the great Prophet of Arabia, who knows how he taught and how he lived, to feel anything but reverence for that mighty Prophet, o­ne of the great messengers of the Supreme. And although in what I put to you I shall say many things which may be familiar to many, yet I myself feel whenever I re-read them, a new way of admiration, a new sense of reverence for that mighty Arabian teacher.

  Annie Besant

  Teacher, Character, Islam

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• When you consider all saints and prophets as legitimate and no longer differentiate between religions, you have reached the stage of true mysticism.

  Ostad Elahi

  Religious, Saint, Stage

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• For, as it is written in the book of the Prophets: 'And the angel that spoke in me, said to me...' He does not say, 'Spoke to me' but 'Spoke in me'.

  Saint Augustine

  Book, Angel, Doe

  Saint Augustine (2012). “Enchiridion”, p.53, Simon and Schuster

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• 'I believe in o­ne God and Mohammed the Apostle of God,' is the simple and invariable profession of Islam. The intellectual image of the Deity has never been degraded by any visible idol; the honours of the prophet have never transgressed the measure of human virtue, and his living precepts have restrained the gratitude of his disciples within the bounds of reason and religion.

  Edward Gibbon

  Gratitude, Believe, Simple

  Edward Gibbon, Francis Parkman, William H. Prescott, Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “The Modern Library Essential World History 4-Book Bundle: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Abridged); Montcalm and Wolfe; History of the Conquest of Mexico; The Naval War of 1812”, p.1340, Modern Library

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• What would a man of God say, who felt aright, when Joseph asked him for his money? He would say, 'Yes, and I wish I had more to help to build up the Kingdom of God.' Or if he came and said 'I want your wife?' 'O Yes,' he would say, 'here she is, there are plenty more.' ... Did the Prophet Joseph want every man's wife he asked for? He did not... If such a man of God should come to me and say, 'I want your gold and silver, or your wives,' I should say, 'Here they are, I wish I had more to give you, take all I have got.'

  Jedediah M. Grant

  Men, Wife, Giving

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• Learn the lesson that, if you are to do the work of a prophet, what you need is not a sceptre but a hoe.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Hoe, Needs, Lessons

  Saint Bernard (of Clairvaux) (1908). “Saint Bernard On Consideration”

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• In ancient times the greatest of the prophets were great musicians.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Musician, Ancient, Great Music

  Hazrat Inayat Khan “The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: The Mysticism of Sound, Music, The Power of the Word, Cosmic Language”, Library of Alexandria

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• Prophets are those who take life as it is and expand it. They refuse to shrink a vision of tomorrow to the boundaries of yesterday.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Yesterday, Vision, Tomorrow

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• My loving children, my children who were created with God's beauty, my wise children, whatever difficulty you may have, do not ever leave His charge. Just as the prophets of God kept their faith firm and were tolerant in spite of the problems they had, no matter what difficulties you may experience, be tolerant, be forbearant and embrace all living things as your own life.

  Muhammad Raheem Bawa Muhaiyaddeen

  Wise, Children, May

  "The Tree That Fell To The West: Autobiography of a Sufi". Book by Muhammad Raheem Bawa Muhaiyaddeen, 2003.

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• Think like a prophet, serve like a priest, and plan like a king.

  Timothy Keller

  Kings, Thinking, Priests

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• It is the nature of all hypocrites and false prophets to create a conscience where there is none, and to cause conscience to disappear where it does exist.

  Martin Luther

  Hypocrite, Doe, Causes

  Martin Luther, Hilton C. Oswald (1973). “Luther's works: Commentaries on 1 Corinthians 7, 1 Corinthians 15 ; lectures on Timothy / Hilton C. Oswald, editor”, Concordia Pub House

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• True religion has a universal quality. It does not find fault with other religions. False religions will find fault with other religions; they will say that theirs is the only valid religion and their prophet is the only saviour. But a true religion will feel that all the prophets are saviours of mankind.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Religion, Quality, Doe

  Sri Chinmoy (2003). “Wisdom of Sri Chinmoy”, p.291, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

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• The best prophets lead you up to the curtain and let you peer through for yourself.

  Frank Herbert

  Peers, Curtains

  Frank Herbert (1984). “God Emperor of Dune”

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• Money is the god of our time, and Rothschild is his prophet.

  Heinrich Heine

  Historical, Rothschild, Our Time

  Heinrich Heine, Paul Lawrence Rose (1982). “History of Religion and Philosophy in Germany”

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• Death makes a prophet's voice louder.

  Frank Herbert

  Voice

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.314, Penguin

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• Every prophet and every saint has a way, But all lead to God. All ways are really one.

  Rumi

  Soul, Saint, Way

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• Neither Britain, a land fertile in tyrants, nor the people of Ireland, knew Moses and the prophets.

  St. Jerome

  Tyrants, Land, People

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• We are all at times unconscious prophets.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Unconscious

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• God doesn't seem to talk to people like he used to. Who's he talking to now? I don't know. Then I'm walking down the street in Manhattan one day, and I realize maybe it's those guys you see walking down the street talking to themselves. You know, those guys that are like, 'I can't! No, I can't!' Maybe the other side of that conversation is God going, 'You're the new leader.' 'No I can't!' They're not crazy - they're reluctant prophets.

  Marc Maron

  Funny, Crazy, Humor

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• God, when he makes the prophet, does not unmake the man.

  John Locke

  Men, Doe, He Man

  John Locke (1836). “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding”, p.537

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• In your dreams you can see yourself as a prophet saving the world.

  Frank Zappa

  Dream, Peace, Special

  Song: Son Of Orange County

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• If there ever comes a day when the Saints interfere with the rights of others to live as they see fit, you can know with assurance that the Church is no longer led by a Prophet, but a mere man.

  Brigham Young

  Men, Rights, Church

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