Prophet Quotes - Page 27

• I don't think there is such a thing as as a real prophet. You can never predict the future. We know why now, of course; chaos theory, which I got very interested in, shows you can never predict the future.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Real, Thinking, Chaos

  Source: www.salon.com

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• Islam, in contrast to Christianity and Buddhism, does not have monasticism; spiritual life, social life, they are all integrated and related together in one way or another. And the Prophet represents that in his life.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Spiritual, Buddhism, Islam

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• God is an exalted man. Some people are troubled over the statements of the Prophet Joseph Smith... that our Father in heaven at one time passed through a life and death and is an exalted man.

  Joseph Fielding Smith

  Father, Men, People

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• When the soul by the Holy Spirit comes to know the Mother of God; when in the Holy Spirit the soul becomes kin to the Apostles, the Prophets, and all the Saints and Righteous Ones, then she is irresistibly drawn to that world, and cannot remain, but is bothered, and thirsts, and cannot cease from prayer, and although the body becomes exhausted and wants to lie down on a bed, even while lying in bed the soul longs for the Lord and the Kingdom of the Saints.

  Silouan the Athonite

  Inspirational, Christian, Mother

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• Conversion is not only changing the faith. Conversion is changing the heart and working over there is the grace of God. Then only comes the question of change of faith. Nobody can force you, not even the holy prophets.

  Mother Teresa

  Heart, Holy Prophet, Grace

  Source: mattersindia.com

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• I'm no prophet and I'm no genius, but I can only tell you what I seem to know. As a fan of television and the movies, I think it's all for the better.

  Denis Leary

  Thinking, Fans, Genius

  "Denis Leary Wants David Bowie & Steven Tyler In ‘Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll’ Season 2 – Comic Con". Interview with Dominic Patten, deadline.com. July 12, 2015.

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• Go back to the Bible, the Old Testament. I mean there were people who we would call intelectuals, there, they were called prophets, but they were basically intelectuals: they were people who were doing critical, geopolitical analysis, talking about the decisions of the king were going to lead to destruction; condemning inmorality, calling for justice for widows and orphans. What we would call dissident intelectuals. Were they nicely treated? No, they were driven into the desert, they were imprisoned, they were denounced. They were intelectuals who conformed.

  Noam Chomsky

  Kings, Mean, Talking

  Source: theanarchistlibrary.org

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• The prophets preach . . . that pleasure, not will-power and coercion, is how you most deeply transform people.

  Matthew Fox

  Inspirational, People, Coercion

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• I am not a prophet; I cannot predict what will happen.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Happens

  "Interview with Marcelo Dimentstein, Alberto Senderey, Andy Spokoiny and Shira Shnitzer". leatid.org. February 2009.

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• [The Book of the Law]was lost for so many years. And then Josiah decided to celebrate Passover. The text says that "The Passover sacrifice had not been offered in that way ... during the days of the kings of Israel and the kings of Judah" [2 Kings 23:22]. What do you mean? Not in the days of David and Solomon? Never before? And what of the days of the prophets? What happened? That's what I'm anguishing over. If the Book of the Law could be forgotten for so many years, who knows what was done to it during those years? Maybe it was lost later, too.

  Elie Wiesel

  Kings, Book, Mean

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• This Ayah indicates that the pious person should express his love to Allah by believing in His Prophet and following the Message, and through obeying the Prophet, abiding by his orders, leaving what he prohibits and obeying all what Allah has revealed to him, because that is the vivid expression of the practical love that fills his whole entity.

  Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah

  Believe, Expression, Order

  "The mutual love between Allah and His servants". english.bayynat.org.lb.

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• No one has written the way Isaiah does. The royal style, the majesty of the language. He is called the prince of the prophets. No one has written like that. I've studied ancient literature, Homer, for example, but it's not the same thing.

  Elie Wiesel

  Ancient Literature, Style, Example

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• I think Allah (swt) has given me the ni'ma of this voice, for which I use for Allah (swt) and his Prophet (pbuh) to read nasheeds. That is a certain kind of music, which is pleasing in the eyes of Allah (swt) and His Prophet (pbuh). And if people can start listening to it, I think that is a great service to the ummah. Keeping that in mind, that now has become a priority.

  Junaid Jamshed

  Eye, Thinking, Voice

  Source: irusa.org

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• Muslims (companions) misunderstood the speech of the Prophet on the day of Ghadeer.

  Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah

  Misunderstood, Speech, Companion

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• I read the lifestyles of our Rasul (pbuh) and the Sahabah (companions of the Prophet) a lot. I read the lifestyles of people who have done a lot for the people - of Muslims and non-Muslims [working] together.

  Junaid Jamshed

  People, Working Together, Done

  Source: irusa.org

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• The masters of the comic spirit are often our prophets.

  Penelope Gilliatt

  Humor, Spirit, Comedy

  Penelope Gilliatt (1990). “To wit: skin and bones of comedy”, Scribner

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• The study of everything that stands connected with the death of Christ, whether it be in the types of the ceremonial law, the predictions of the prophets, the narratives of the gospels, the doctrines of the epistles, or the sublime vision of the Apocalypse, this is the food of the soul, the manna from heaven, the bread of life. This is "meat indeed" and "drink indeed."

  John Angell James

  Bread Of Life, Law, Heaven

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 69, 1895.

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• None of the prophets old,
  So lofty or so bold!
  No form of danger shakes his dauntless breast;
  In loneliness sublime
  He dares confront the time,
  And speak the truth, and give the world no rest
  No kingly threat can cowardize his breath,
  He with majestic step goes forth to meet his death.

  Abraham Coles

  Courage, Loneliness, Giving

  Abraham Coles (1885). “The Life and Teachings of Our Lord in Verse: Being a Complete Harmonized Exposition of the Four Gospels, with Original Notes Textual Index, Etc. Two Volumes in One, Vol. 1 -- The Evangel (second Edition), Vol. 2 -- The Light of the World”

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• Pat Buchanan has emerged as the prophet and forerunner of a real economic nationalism on the right, and Donald Trump is now its tribune. This is not movement ideology which is all about limited government, the power of free markets and also internationally - globalism.

  Sam Tanenhaus

  Real, Government, Movement

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Except in these latter-day songs, [Bob] Dylan is a grizzled old prophet who's already been to hell and back.

  Jay Michaelson

  Song, Bob, Hell And Back

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• Prophet Mohammed would have no objection to The Satanic Verses.

  Salman Rushdie

  Motivational, Satanic, Verses

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• Muhammad sets the model for being a good statesman. He also sets the model for being a good warrior, for chivalry, of nobility, of all the things which the Quran and Hadith [The recorded collections of the sayings and traditions of the Prophet] says of treating your enemy with dignity and kindness.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Kindness, Warrior, Enemy

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Muhammad was, first of all, a Prophet of course, a beloved and lover of God, a father, an army commander, a judge, a ruler of a community, the King of Medina and later of Arabia, and all of these were combined in him and his destiny, the reason God brought him on earth, was to show how each of the functions which human beings have in life have the perfect form in the prophet.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Kings, Father, Army

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The word Habib in Arabic means both lover and beloved. At the heart of it is that the Prophet loves God, God loves him. But God designated him to be also the founder of a new world order of a civilization of a society.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Heart, Mean, Order

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• There are two kinds of death, the death which is inevitable and common to all beings, and the death which is voluntary and particular to certain ones of them only. It is the second death which is prescribed for us in the words of the Messenger of Allah: "Die before you die." The resurrection is accomplished for him who dies this voluntary death. His affairs return to God and they are but one. He has returned to God and he sees Him through Him. As the Prophet said - on him be Grace and Peace!

  Abdelkader El Djezairi

  Peace, Two, Grace

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