Prophet Quotes - Page 28

• In my town we studied the five Books of Moses, but rarely the prophets. We studied the Talmud so much that I sometimes knew the prophets because of the prophetic quotations in the Talmud. We almost never studied the prophets themselves.

  Elie Wiesel

  Book, Towns, Sometimes

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• ... I just feel impotent - I don't know which way to start or turn. You know what they say about a prophet in one's own country - well - in a way it works for me too: you see - this might be called my home town - well of all the old friends and acquaintances not one takes me seriously as a photographer - not one has asked me to show my work... (On returning to San Francisco)

  Tina Modotti

  Country, Home, San Francisco

  Tina Modotti, Amy Rule (1986). “The Letters from Tina Modotti to Edward Weston”

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• I make sure the events I do have the element of entertainment that Allah (swt) and his Prophet (pbuh) permit. Having said that, I would also like to make sure they are contemporary and our children can actually relate to them.

  Junaid Jamshed

  Children, Events, Elements

  Source: irusa.org

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• People who have left the group talk about how a religious inspiration took them to ISIS. It was their feeling of being marginalized as Muslims in the society where they were living, and then buying into the promise of a caliphate and of a Muslim land that is governed as in the time of the prophet. I have yet to meet anybody, or speak to anybody, who was not religiously motivated at some level.

  Rukmini Maria Callimachi

  Religious, Inspiration, Isis

  Source: www.politico.com

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• We know that Muhammad waged war against the Qurayshi tribe, his own tribe, and it's from that conflict that much of the concept of jihad and verses that ISIS now uses to justify beheadings come from. A young man just told me that he went back and read this carefully [and saw] the prophet and his people were fighting the Quraysh because they were not allowing the prophet and his people to practice their religion.

  Rukmini Maria Callimachi

  War, Fighting, Men

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Ezekiel says this, though, he's - God said to the prophet, he said I'm going to cause you to sit where they've sat.

  Paula White

  Ezekiel, Causes, Said

  Source: culteducation.com

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• To be a prophet it is sufficient to be a pessimist.

  Elsa Triolet

  Pessimism, Pessimist, Sufficient

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• Fidel Castro looked after the poor, he looked after the weak, he looked after the widow, he looked after the orphan - he did all the things that Prophet Muhammad did from the spiritual perspective.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Spiritual, Perspective, Widows

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• There is a principle of human affairs that goes back millennia, which is that you don't look in the mirror. You can trace this principle back to the Bible. The designated intellectuals of that time are called prophets, which is a mistranslation of a Hebrew word, but they were basically intellectuals, giving geopolitical analysis, criticizing the moral practice of leadership, etc. Now, these people were not treated very nicely. There were other intellectuals who were treated nicely, namely those who centuries later came to be called false prophets. These were the flatterers of the court.

  Noam Chomsky

  Mirrors, Practice, People

  Source: www.madre.org

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• The preaching of the Church truly continues without change and is everywhere the same. It has the testimony of the Prophets and Apostles and all their disciples.

  Irenaeus of Lyons

  Catholic, Church, Testimony

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• UFO mythology is similar to the message of the classical religions where God sends his Angels as emissaries who offer salvation to those who accept the faith and obey his Prophets. Today, the chariots of the gods are UFOs. What we are witnessing in the past half century is the spawning of a New Age religion.

  Paul Kurtz

  Angel, Past, Age

  Paul Kurtz “Skepticism and Humanism: The New Paradigm”, Transaction Publishers

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• 'Hamas has been looking forward to implement Allah'€™s promise whatever time it might take. The prophet, prayer and peace be upon him, said: The time will not come until Muslims will fight the Jews (and kill them); until the Jews hide behind rocks and trees, which will cry: O Muslim! there is a Jew hiding behind me, come on and kill him!'

  Andrew C. McCarthy

  Prayer, Fighting, Rocks

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• Spring is beautiful everywhere, but it is more than beautiful in Lebanon. Spring is the spirit of an unknown God speeding through the world, which, as it reaches Lebanon, pauses, because now it is as at home with the souls of the Prophets and Kings hovering over the land, chanting with the brooks of Judea, the eternal Psalms of Solomon, renewing with the Cedars of Lebanon memories of an ancient glory.

  Khalil Gibran

  Beautiful, Kings, Memories

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• Most worshippers of God are intent on the advancement of their own destiny, not on His worship. In India, no one has ever claimed to be a prophet. The reason is that claims to divinity are customary.

  Akbar

  Destiny, Hypocrisy, India

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• Insulting the Prophet (Peace Be Upon Him) is like trying to spit at the sun, it will only come back in your face.

  Nouman Ali Khan

  Insulting, Trying, Faces

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• Beware, O earth, the prophet who claims to know the time but never wears a watch.

  Calvin Miller

  Watches, Earth, Claims

  Calvin Miller (1979). “The Finale”, Intervarsity Pr

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• Truth is neither in the scripture nor in the words of prophets. It is in your heart, feel it, discover it and expand with it.

  Amit Ray

  Heart, Scripture, Truth Is

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• A leader always has one major message, and this weaves into everything he or she does. It remains the primary focus. A leader is to some degree a  prophet, a person with a message. Great leader [sic] see things that others don’t. They preach it until others can see it as well. Their message supports the mission. A leader is a preacher, a person who communicates the fire of the mission. Not all preachers are leaders, but all great leaders will be preachers of one sort or another.

  Phil Pringle

  Fire, Focus, Support

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• When Allah granted Prophet Yoosuf (`alayhis-Salaam) physical beauty it caused him to be locked up in the prison; but when Allah granted him knowledge (when he interpreted the dream of the king) it not only took him out of prison, but elevated his rank in society, clearly showing us the virtue of knowledge and that physical beauty does not mean anything.

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  Dream, Kings, Mean

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• Cult leaders are often self-styled prophets who have not studied with great teachers or undergone lengthy training or discipline themselves. . . Many of the most dangerous cultic figures of our times have no such stabilizing context of tradition, lineage or transmission, but are self-proclaimed gurus who sway their followers through their charismatic talents. . . .

  John Welwood

  Teacher, Self, Discipline

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• Those who suffer great adversity and sorrow and go on to serve their fellowmen develop a great capacity to understand others. Like the prophets, they have acquired a higher understanding of the mind and will of Christ.

  Carlos H. Amado

  Adversity, Understanding, Mind

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• Every time we are obedient to the words of the prophets and apostles we reap great blessings. We receive more blessings than we can understand at the time, and we continue to receive blessings long after our initial decision to be obedient.

  Paul V. Johnson

  Blessing, Long, Decision

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• On the altar you are looking at the same thing as you saw there last night. You have not heard, however, what this is, what it signifies, or about the greatness of the reality of which it is a sacrament. Your eyes are looking at bread and cup. This is the evidence before your physical sight. But your faith must be instructed concerning it- this bread being Christ 's Body and the cup containing His Blood. Though perhaps these words may be enough to initiate faith, faith must be further instructed in accordance with the Prophet's words: 'Believe that you may understand'

  Saint Augustine

  Believe, Eye, Night

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• Take any path you like; follow any prophet you like; but have only that method which suits your own nature, so that you will be sure to progress.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Progress, Path, Suits

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Vivekananda Reader”, p.167, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

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• If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet... [at least for your own situation. Blind optimism is just as foolish. The solution is a rigorously balanced, rational outlook.]

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Optimism, Chance, Anticipation

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