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• Many of the prophets of Jesus's time were thought to just be mad men, just sort of crazy people who were claiming to channel the divine. Perhaps that means we should be a little less judgmental of some of our own crazies talking about God on the corner. They might actually have found a pretty comfortable place in Jesus's time.

  Reza Aslan

  Jesus, Crazy, Mean

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• Islam is unusual in that it's the only one of the great world religions which was born inside recorded history. That there's an enormous amount of factual historical record about the life of a prophet and about social conditions in Arabia at that time. So it's possible to look at the origin of Islam in a scholarly way.

  Salman Rushdie

  World Religions, Historical, Islam

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• The Prophet, peace be on him, presents all the possibilities of the human state in perfection. Now, a part of that of course is love of God.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Perfection, God Love, Possibility

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Salman Rushdie, indeed any writer who abuses the prophet or indeed any prophet under Islamic law, the sentence for that is actually death.

  Cat Stevens

  Islamic, Law, Abuse

  "Yussuf Islam, Formerly Cat Stevens, Expresses Support For Rushdie Death Sentence". The Christian Science Monitor, 1989.

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• There was no division I could see between the essential teaching of all Prophets and wise men of religion.

  Cat Stevens

  Wise, Teaching, Men

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• The fact that the Prophet cared for every human being and tried his best to ensure their security in the hereafter must be the most telling of his compassionate and merciful characteristics.

  Cat Stevens

  Facts, Characteristics, Compassionate

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• The Word of fire burns today On the lips of our prophets in an evil age.

  Margaret Walker

  Fire, Evil, Age

  Margaret Walker (2013). “This Is My Century: New and Collected Poems”, p.74, University of Georgia Press

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• The wisest prophets make sure of the event first.

  Horace Walpole

  Wise, Events, Firsts

  Letter to Thos. Walpole, 19 February 1785, in 'Letters'

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• In my tradition, one must wait until one has learned a lot of Bible and Talmud and the Prophets to handle mysticism. This isn't instant coffee. There is no instant mysticism.

  Elie Wiesel

  Coffee, Waiting, Tradition

  "10 Questions for Elie Wiesel". Interview with Jeff Chu, content.time.com. January 22, 2006.

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• The Prophets Isaiah and Ezekiel dined with me, and I asked them how they dared so roundly to assert, that God spoke to them; and whether they did not think at the time, that they would be misunderstood, & so be the cause of imposition. Isaiah answer'd, I saw no God, nor heard any, in a finite organical perception; but my senses discover'd the infinite in every thing, and as I was then persuaded, & remain confirm'd; that the voice of honest indignation is the voice of God, I cared not for consequences but wrote.

  William Blake

  Thinking, Ezekiel, Voice

  William Blake, “The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell”

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• The Prophet defeated the enemies of Islam even when he and his followers were small in number.

  Abu Bakar Bashir

  Numbers, Enemy, Islam

  "'We Should Not Fear Being Called Radical'". Interview with Farish A. Noor, theseoultimes.com.

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• What the fundamentalists are doing is a total negation of their own faith - encouraging and lionizing suicide bombers and killing women and children, hardly in keeping with the teachings of Prophet Mohammed.

  Alexander Haig

  Suicide, Children, Teaching

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• It is remarkable that among all the preachers there are so few moral teachers. The prophets are employed in excusing the ways of men.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Teacher, Men, Way

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.415, Simon and Schuster

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• Certainly Paul shares the view of the Old Testament prophets that God will one day flood the world with justice and joy - and that this has begun to be fulfilled in the resurrection of Jesus.

  N. T. Wright

  Jesus, Views, Justice

  Source: kenwytsma.com

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• One of the reasons why people in the west are nervous is they are reading the Koran, and the life of Mohammed and he is a prophet that declared he was victorious through terror and that is disturbing to people.

  Mark Durie

  Reading, People, West

  "Fear of Islam". SBS Insight, www.sbs.com.au. November 2, 2010.

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• We have chosen Mahomet not as the most eminent Prophet; but as the one we are freest to speak of. He is by no means the truest of Prophets; but I do esteem him a true one.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Mean, Speak, True Ones

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.120, Lulu.com

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• The bay-trees in our country are all withered,
  And meteors fright the fixèd stars of heaven.
  The pale-faced moon looks bloody on the earth,
  And lean-looked prophets whisper fearful change.
  Rich men look sad, and ruffians dance and leap;
  The one in fear to lose what they enjoy,
  The other to enjoy by rage and war.
  These signs forerun the death or fall of kings.

  William Shakespeare

  Country, Stars, Kings

  William Shakespeare, Anthony B. Dawson, Paul Yachnin (2011). “The Oxford Shakespeare: Richard II”, p.201, Oxford University Press

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• The Lord's angel, Gebrail, dictated the Koran to Mohammed the Lord's Prophet. What a joke if all that holy book were only twenty-three years of listening to the desert. A desert which has no voice.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Book, Angel, Years

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “V.”, p.52, Penguin

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• To return to higher standards of living we must abandon the false prophets and seek new leaders of our own choosing.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Leader, Return, Standards

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

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• Remember that, brethren. You cannot destroy the appointments of the prophets of God. The Lord knows whom He wants to preside in His Church, and sometimes it takes a lot of practicing, guiding, testing, before He may know whether or not one of us is prepared for the present assignment.

  Harold B. Lee

  Church, Want, May

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• In science we don't have prophets. We have heroes, but not prophets.

  Steven Weinberg

  Hero

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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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• I will raise up prophets to make conflicting pronouncements that inevitably will be garbled in transcription, resulting in mutually exclusive definitions of orthodoxy from which the open-minded will flee in dismay.

  Sheri S. Tepper

  Definitions, Orthodoxy, Open Minded

  "The Visitor". Book by Sheri S. Tepper, 2002.

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• I am in Birmingham because injustice is here. Just as the eighth century prophets left their little villages and carried their "thus saith the Lord" far beyond the boundaries of their home towns; and just as the Apostle Paul left his little village of Tarsus and carried the gospel of Jesus Christ to practically every hamlet and city of the Graeco-Roman world, I too am compelled to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my particular home town. Like Paul, I must constantly respond to the Macedonian call for aid.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Jesus, Home, Cities

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• How grateful we are that the heavens are indeed open, that the gospel of Jesus Christ has been restored, and that the Church is founded on the rock of revelation. We are a blessed people, with apostles and prophets upon the earth today.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Jesus, Blessed, Grateful

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