Prophet Quotes - Page 19

• Our prayers are prophets.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Prayer, Our Prayers

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2372, Delphi Classics

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• Prayer, to the patriarchs and prophets, was more than the recital of well-known and well-worn phrases-it was the outpouring of the heart.

  Herbert Lockyer

  Prayer, Heart, Phrases

  Herbert Lockyer (1990). “All the Prayers of the Bible”, p.17, Harper Collins

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• ... those who sit in the darkness of passions and whose minds are blinded by ignorance, or, rather, those who have not acquired the 'mind of Christ' (I Cor. 2:16), think that he who has the mind of Christ is foolish, and that he who has it not is sensible. Of these the prophet David rightly states, 'The ignorant and foolish perish together' (Ps. 49:11). Therefore such men twist the whole of Scripture according to their own desires (cf. II Pet. 3:3, 16) and corrupt themselves in their own passions. But it is not divine Scripture that suffers from this, but those who disfigure it!

  Symeon the New Theologian

  Christian, Passion, Ignorance

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• A good deal of so-called atheism is itself, from my point of view, theologically significant. It is the working of God in history, and judgement upon the pious. An authentic prophet can be a radical critic of spurious piety, of sham spirituality.

  James Luther Adams

  Views, Judgement, Atheism

  James Luther Adams (1986). “The Prophethood of All Believers”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• Outcasts of war, misfits, rebellious souls, Seekers of some vague kingdom in the stars - They hide out in the hills and stir up trouble, Call themselves prophets, too, and prophesy, That something new is coming to the world, The Lord knows what! Well, it's a long time coming, And, meanwhile, we're the wheat between the stones.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Stars, War, Long

  "A Child Is Born". Poetic Christmas drama in one act by Stephen Vincent Benet (first presented on radio as part of the anthology program "Cavalcade of America"), December 21, 1942.

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• In general, when the imagination is at all noble, it is irresistible, and therefore those who can at all resist it ought to resist it. Be a plain topographer if you possibly can; if Nature meant you to be anything else, she will force you to it; but never try to be a prophet.

  John Ruskin

  Imagination, Trying, Noble

  John Ruskin (1873). “Modern Painters”, p.18

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• The best Qualification of a Prophet is to have a good Memory.

  Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

  Memories, Good Memories, Qualifications

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• In Islamic belief, knowledge is two-fold. There is that revealed through the Holy Prophet (s.a.s.) and that which man discovers by virtue of his own intellect. Nor do these two involve any contradiction, provided man remembers that his own mind is itself the creation of God. Without this humility, no balance is possible. With it, there are no barriers. Indeed, one strength of Islam has always lain in its belief that creation is not static but continuous, that through scientific and other endeavours, God has opened and continues to open new windows for us to see the marvels of His creation

  Aga Khan IV

  Islamic, Humility, Men

  Speech at The Acceptance of The Charter of The Aga Khan University, ismaili.net. March 24, 2010.

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• Illustrious confessors of Jesus Christ, a Christian finds in prison the same joys as the prophets tasted in the desert. Call it not a dungeon, but a solitude. When the soul is in heaven, the body feels not the weight of fetters; it carries the whole man along with it.

  Tertullian

  Christian, Jesus, Men

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• I think that if the beast who sleeps in man could be held down by threats of any kind, whether of jail or retribution, then the highest emblem of humanity would be the lion tamer, not the prophet who sacrificed himself.... What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.

  Boris Pasternak

  Sleep, Men, Thinking

  "Doctor Zhivago". Book by Boris Pasternak. Paraphrase of the 1958 translation, as quoted in The New York Times (1 January 1978), 1957.

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• Every Muslim leader must unequivocally proclaim that terror committed in the name of Islam violates the core tenets of the Prophet Mohammed, and they must do so repeatedly. Period.

  Mike Pompeo

  Names, Leader, Islam

  "GOP Rep. Mike Pompeo: US Islamic Leaders Are ‘Potentially Complicit’ In Terrorist Acts" by Josh Feldman, www.mediaite.com. June 11, 2013.

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• Is any prophet come to teach a new thing
  Now in a more apt time?

  Anne Spencer

  Teach, New Things

  Anne Spencer, “Before The Feast Of Shushan”

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• Prophecy and prescience - How can they be put to the test in the face of unanswered questions? Consider: How much is actual prediction and how much is the prophet shaping the future to fit the prophecy? What are the harmonics inherent in the act of prophecy? Does the prophet see the future or does he see a line of weakness, a fault or cleavage that he may shatter with words or decisions as a diamond-cutter shatters his gem with a blow of the knife?

  Frank Herbert

  Blow, Knives, Decision

  "Dune: The Gateway Collection". Book by Frank Herbert, 2012.

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• Rock stars are like prophets. There's something about somebody who can get up on a stage and sing. And then when they write you songs, forget it, okay?

  Pamela Anderson

  Song, Stars, Writing

  "Pamela Anderson: What I've Learned" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. April 28, 2015.

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• What believer sees a disturbing omission or infelicity? The text, whether of prophet or of poet, expands for whatever we can put into it, and even his bad grammar is sublime.

  George Eliot

  Omission, Sublime, Poet

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.42, Penguin

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• The problem that we have is the President himself- a President who prides himself on his own weakness and incompetence and whose love of false prophets and strange women knows no bounds and has no end. A President who is as confused and as clueless as the comic character called Chancey Gardner in the celebrated 1970's Peter Seller's Hollywood blockbuster titled ”Being There

  Femi Fani-Kayode

  Confused, Clueless, Character

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• I have not yet learned to live, that I can see, and I fear that I shall not very soon. I find, however, that in the long run things correspond to my original idea,--that they correspond to nothing else so much; and thus a man may really be a true prophet without any great exertion. The day is never so dark, nor the night even, but that the laws at least of light still prevail, and so may make it light in our minds if they are open to the truth.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Running, Dark

  Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1865). “Letters to Various Persons”, p.113

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• Do not let the prophets and diviners among you deceive you. Do not listen to the dreams you encourage them to have.

  Jeremiah

  Dream, Deceiving

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• The LORD has raised up prophets for us in Babylon.

  Jeremiah

  Lord, Babylon, Raised

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• The objective of false prophets and teachers of whatever stripe is...the influence and control of the minds of men.

  Ron Dart

  Education, Teacher, Lying

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• Allah isgreat, no doubt, and Juxtaposition his prophet.

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Doubt, Juxtaposition, No Doubt

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• Insofar as I think about postmodernism at all, and it doesn't exactly keep me awake at nights, I think of it as something that happens to one, not a style one affects. We're postmoderns because we're not modernists. The modernist writers—Pound, Eliot, Joyce, Stevens, Yeats, Woolf, Williams—spoke with a kind of vatic authority: they were really the last of the Romantics, for whom authorship itself was like being a solitary prophet in the wasteland.

  Jonathan Raban

  Night, Thinking, Style

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• I don't really think that writers, even great writers, are prophets, or sages, or Messiah-like figures; writing is a lonely, sedentary occupation and a touch of megalomania can be comforting around five on a November afternoon when you haven't seen anybody all day.

  Angela Carter

  Lonely, Writing, Thinking

  Angela Carter (1997). “Shaking a Leg: Journalism and Writings”, Vintage

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• Do you think there is any chance the Lord would have inspired his prophets to prophesy about us, only to then take a chance on the outcome of the latter days by sending men and women he couldn't count on? There is no chance - zero chance - He would have done that.

  Sheri L. Dew

  Zero, Thinking, Men

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• Love is all I can possess and no one can deprive me of it. Kahlil Gibran (Visions of the Prophet)

  Khalil Gibran

  Love Is, Vision, I Can

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