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• Never have I witnessed such sincere hospitality and
  the overwhelming spirit of true brotherhood as is practiced
  by people of all colours and races here in this ancient Holy Land,
  the home of Abraham, Muhammad, and all the other prophets
  of the Holy Scriptures. For the past week, I have been utterly
  speechless and spellbound by the graciousness I see displayed
  all around me by people of all colours.

  Malcolm X

  Home, Past, Land

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.347, Ballantine Books

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• The Lord didn't make Lehi a mere spectator, watching and learning from afar. Instead, the Lord taught his prophet by taking him out of the bleachers and placing him right in the middle of the action.

  John Bytheway

  Afar, Taught, Action

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• Indifference to our neighbour and to God also represents a real temptation for us Christians. Each year during Lent we need to hear once more the voice of the prophets who cry out and trouble our conscience.

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Real, Years

  "Make your hearts firm". Pope Francis' message for Lent 2015 from the Vatican, w2.vatican.va. October 4, 2014.

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• Following rulers instead of prophets, the wicked can rule you, but the knowledge can stop it.

  Kool Moe Dee

  Wicked, Politics, Following

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• No vision of God and heaven ever experienced by the most exalted prophet can, in my opinion, match the vision of the universe as seen by Newton or Einstein

  Isaac Asimov

  Heaven, Religion, Vision

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• Michael Ralph brilliantly plays the street prophet, a West Indian who foreshadows the Harlem riot.

  Debbie Allen

  Play, West, Harlem

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• The man who sees absolutes, where all other men see nuances and shades of meaning, is either a prophet, or a quack.

  Keith Olbermann

  Men, Politics, Shade

  Keith Olbermann (2008). “Truth and Consequences: Special Comments on the Bush Administration's War on American Values”, p.11, Random House

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• Islam explicitly rejects dictatorship and there are no traditions of the Prophet or passages in the Qur'an which clearly give dictators this support.

  Bernard Lewis

  Giving, Support, Islam

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• [Jews are] murderers of the Lord, assassins of the prophets, rebels against God, God haters,... advocates of the devil, race of vipers, slanderers, calumniators, dark-minded people, leaven of the Pharisees, sanhedrin of demons, sinners, wicked men, stoners, and haters of righteousness.

  Gregory of Nyssa

  Dark, Men, Race

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• Each time a new baby is born there is a possibility of reprieve. Each child is a new being, a potential prophet, a new spiritual prince, a new spark of light precipitated into the outer darkness.

  R. D. Laing

  Family, Spiritual, Baby

  R.D Laing (1967). “The Politics of Experience”

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• There have been prophets and students who handle the Bible like a child's box of bricks; they explain to us the design and structure and purpose; but as time goes on things do not work out in their way at all. They have mistaken the scaffolding for the structure, while all the time God is working out His purpose with a great and undeterred patience.

  Oswald Chambers

  Children, Work Out, Design

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.31, Discovery House

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• Bahá'u'lláh is not the Intermediary between other Manifestations and God. Each has His own relation to the Primal Source. But in the sense that Bahá'u'lláh is the greatest Manifestation to yet appear, the One Who consummates the Revelation of Moses; He was the One Moses conversed with in the Burning Bush. In other words Bahá'u'lláh identifies the glory of the Godhead on that occasion with Himself. No distinction can be made amongst the Prophets in the sense that They all proceed from One Source, and are of One Essence. But Their stations and functions in this world are different.

  Shoghi Effendi

  Essence, Burning, World

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• But I and others, who are right-minded Christians on all points, are assured that there will be a resurrection of the dead, and a thousand years in Jerusalem, which will then be built, adorned, and enlarged, [as] the prophets Ezekiel and Isaiah and others declare.

  Justin Martyr

  Christian, Years, Ezekiel

  Justin Martyr, Aeterna Press (2016). “Dialogue of Justin With a Jew”, p.98, Aeterna Press

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• Zionism is, in sum, the constant and unrelenting effort to realize the national and universal vision of the prophets of Israel.

  Yigal Allon

  Israel, Effort, Vision

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• If you offer fasting with humility and with mercy, your bones, as Isaiah said, shall be fat, and you shall be like a well-watered garden (cf. Isa. 58:11). So, then, your soul shall grow fat and its virtues also by the spiritual richness of fasting, and your fruits shall be multiplied by the fertility of your mind, so that there may be in you the inebriation of soberness, like that cup of which the Prophet says: 'Your cup which inebriates, how excellent it is' (Ps. 23:5 LXX)!

  Ambrose

  Christian, Spiritual, Humility

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• For virtue is a light and buoyant thing, and all who live in her way fly like clouds as Isaiah says, and as doves with their young ones; but sin is a heavy affair, as another of the prophets says, sitting upon a talent of lead.

  Gregory of Nyssa

  Christian, Clouds, Light

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• I profess the religion of love,
  Love is my religion and my faith.
  My mother is love
  My father is love
  My prophet is love
  My God is love
  I am a child of love
  I have come only to speak of love.

  Rumi

  Mother, Children, Father

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• Whatever the needs of family members may be, we can strengthen our families as we follow the counsel given by prophets.

  Robert D. Hales

  Family, Needs, May

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• Why are people so afraid? The answer is that they have made themselves helpless and dependent on others. We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything ourselves. We want a Personal God, a Savior or a Prophet to do everything for us.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, People, Lazy

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3599, Manonmani Publishers

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• Each man is perfect by his nature; prophets have manifested this perfection, but it is potential in us.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Men, Perfect, Human Beings

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3209, Manonmani Publishers

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• Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.

  Khalil Gibran

  Thank You, Gratitude, Yoga

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• There is not a Musselman alive who would not imagine that he was performing an action pleasing to God and his Holy Prophet by exterminating every Christian on earth, while the Christians are scarcely more tolerant on their side.

  Denis Diderot

  Christian, Holy Prophet, Religion

  "Conversations with a Christian Lady". "Selected Writings", edited by Lester G. Crocker, 1966.

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• Poetry is itself a thing of God;
  He made his prophets poets; and the more
  We feel of poesie do we become
  Like God in love and power,-under-makers.

  Philip James Bailey

  Poetry, Makers, Made

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.10

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• The Holy Prophet Mohammed came into this world and taught us: 'That man is a Muslim who never hurts anyone by word or deed, but who works for the benefit and happiness of God's creatures. Belief in God is to love one's fellow men.'

  Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

  Peace, Hurt, Men

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• War stirs in men's hearts the mud of their worst instincts. It puts a premium on violence, nourishes hatred, and gives free rein to cupidity. It crushes the weak, exalts the unworthy, and bolsters tyranny .. .Time and time again it has destroyed all ordered living, devastated hope, and put the prophets to death.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Crush, Peace, War

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