Prophet Quotes - Page 37

• [ To break the law] would still be an imperative. I guess we do it for both reasons. You try to be a Christian, you try to come from that tradition of the Jewish prophets and then Christ and everything since. That becomes your handbook. "Witness" is the key word. You witness against the injustice, against the atrocity, against the heavy-handedness, and all the rest. We try to make a statement to other people, and we try to say it's your responsibility, too.

  Philip Berrigan

  Christian, Responsibility, Law

  Source: law-journals-books.vlex.com

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• A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in his own house.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Country, House, Prophecy

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• I've always listened to jazz or folk or blues. I was always listening to the prophets. I don't really go for...I don't know how to say anything about the singles scene without slamming people.

  Van Morrison

  People, Listening, Say Anything

  Interview with Ritchie Yorke, ritchieyorke.com. April 21.

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• The nation, like the church, has its visible symbols and insignia, its parchments engrossed with the revealed word, its dogmas, hymns, liturgy, holy day celebrations, its early Fathers, prophets and martyrs, its priesthood and its lay sodality, its myths of sacred genesis and apocalyptic crises, its world-saving mission and its missionaries.

  Michael Parenti

  Father, Hymns, Holy Days

  Michael Parenti (1970). “The Anti-communist Impulse”

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• In 1835 at Kirtland I learned from my Sisters Husband Lyman R. Shirman, who was close to the Prophet and Received it from him. That the ancient order of plural marriage was again to be practiced by the Church.

  Benjamin F. Johnson

  Husband, Order, Church

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• How long shall we Spiritualists be turned over like so many scapegoats to the unbelievers, by cheating mediums and speculating prophets?

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Cheating, Long, Scapegoat

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• For not by art does the poet sing, but by power divine. Had he learned by rules of art, he would have known how to speak not of one theme only, but of all; and therefore God takes away the minds of poets, and uses them as his ministers, as he also uses diviners and holy prophets, in order that we who hear them may know them to be speaking not of themselves who utter these priceless words in a state of unconsciousness, but that God himself is the speaker, and that through them he is conversing with us.

  Plato

  Art, Holy Prophet, Order

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• Poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many fine things without any understanding of what they say.

  Plato

  Inspiration, Understanding, Talent

  Plato (2002). “Plato: Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo”, p.27, Hackett Publishing

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• Snowden is the thoughtful, courageous saint of liberal reform. And Julian Assange is a sort of radical, feral prophet who has been prowling this wilderness since he was 16 years old.

  Arundhati Roy

  Thoughtful, Years, Reform

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The Bible portrays God as entering into covenants with people which, when broken, causes him grief and sorrow. The biblical prophet Hosea and God's using him as an illustration of how much Israel's idolatry costs God emotionally points to God's vulnerability. But also the incarnation of God in Jesus Christ who, even as God the Son, suffered for our sins, points to God's vulnerability.

  Roger E. Olson

  Jesus, Grief, Biblical

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• If an epileptic seizure is focused in a particular sweet spot in the temporal lobe, a person won´t have motor seizures, but instead something more subtle. The effect is something like a cognitive seizure, marked by changes of personality, hyperreligiosity (an obsession with religion and feelings of religious certainity), hypergraphia (extensive writing on a subject, usually about religion), the false sense of an external presence, and, often, the hearing voices that are attributed to a god. Some fraction of history´s prophets, martyrs, and leaders appear to have had temporal lobe epilepsy.

  David Eagleman

  Religious, Sweet, Writing

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• Sometimes you wish you could keep quiet. It's the kind of thing you heard the prophet Jeremiah complain of where he says, "You know God, I didn't want to be a prophet and you made me speak words of condemnation against a people I love deeply. Your word is like a fire burning in my breast."

  Desmond Tutu

  Deep Love, Fire, People

  Source: sojo.net

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• [Our] plan is to follow the example of the prophets and the ancient fathers of the church, and to compose psalms...so that the Word of God may be among the people also in the form of music.

  Martin Luther

  Father, People, Church

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• Many Westerners forget that when the Prophet spoke of four wives as the maximum allowable number, he had in mind a reduction to four as compared to the number then often prevailing; moreover, Mohammed specified that a man should acquire more than one wife only if he could treat them all with equal justice - obviously a difficult feat for even the most diligent man to achieve. In effect, then, the Prophet curtailed the number of wives.

  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

  Men, Numbers, Justice

  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi (Shah of Iran) (1962). “Maʼmūriyyat barȧ-yi vaṭanam”

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• We enjoy the great prophets of literature most when we have not yet lived enough to realize all they tell us.

  Mary Augusta Ward

  Literature, Realizing, Enough

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• The "prophets" were what we would call dissident intellectuals. They provided critical geopolitical analysis, condemned the crimes of the powerful, called for justice and mercy for those who needed help, etc. I wouldn't personally endorse everything they said, any more than I would for critics of power and its crimes today. But rather generally I think they played an honorable role - and suffered accordingly.

  Noam Chomsky

  Powerful, Thinking, Justice

  Source: chomsky.info

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• Nobody can force you, not even the holy prophets.

  Mother Teresa

  Holy Prophet, Holy, Force

  Mattersindia.com Interview, mattersindia.com. September 4, 2016.

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• And there was some trouble with Oliver Cowdery, and whisper said it was relating to a girl then living in his family; and I was afterwards told by Warren Parish, that he himself and Oliver Cowdery did not that Joseph had Fannie Alger as wife, for they were spied upon and found together. And I can now see that at Nauvoo, so at Kirtland, that the suspicion or knowledge of the Prophet's plural relation was one of the causes of apostasy and disruption at Kirtland, although at the time there was little said publicly on the subject.

  Benjamin F. Johnson

  Girl, Wife, Together

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• Only a white-haired old man, who would be a prophet Yet is not a prophet, for he's much too busy, Repeats while he binds his tomatoes: No other end of the world will there be, No other end of the world will there be.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Men, White, Would Be

  Czeslaw Milosz, “A Song On The End Of The World”

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• And evermore the waters worship God;--
  And bards and prophets tune their mystic lyres
  While listening to the music of the waves!

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Ocean, Water, Listening

  Sarah Josepha Hale (1850). “Dictionary of poetical quotations”, p.388

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• Language became a colorless and as indistinct as the business suit which is now worm by everyone, by the scholar, by the businessman, by the professional killer. Being accustomed to a dry and dreary norm and sees in it an obvious sign of arrogance and aggression; viewing authority with almost religious awe he gets into a frenzy when he sees someone pluck the beard of his favorite prophet.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Religious, Arrogance, Dry

  "Science in a Free Society". Book by Paul Feyerabend, 1978.

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• We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Experience, Historian

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• Poet, forger of ideals, dreamer among the possibilities of life, prophet of the millenium, do you get impatient with the prosaic life around you -- the dulness, and the earthliness, and the brutishness of men? Fret not. Go forward into the realm which stretches before you; climb the highest mountain you can reach, and plant a cross there. The nations will come up to it some day. Work for immortality if you will; then wait for it. If your own age fail to recognize you, a coming age will not.

  J. G. Holland

  Men, Waiting, Dreamer

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• I would love for [Jesus] to come back because I would love for him to face what is happening and to really have some sort of perspective. In that same respect, I'm sure that Prophet Muhammad would be disgusted by what some people use his name to justify.

  Immortal Technique

  Jesus, Names, People

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity.

  Winston Churchill

  Dog, Men, Agriculture

  Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.50, Hachette UK

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