Prophetic Quotes

• The prophetic word was never meant to be a trophy. It was meant to be a weapon.

  Jacob Peterson

  Weapons, Trophies, Were Meant To Be

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• The Church right now has more fashion than passion, is more pathetic than prophetic, is more superficial than supernatural.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Fashion, Passion, Church

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• What is needed desperately today is prophetic insight. Scholars can interpret the past; it takes prophets to interpret the present.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Past, Religion, Today

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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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• Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.

  Petrarch

  Love, Life, Heart

  "Notable Thoughts About Women: A Literary Mosaic". Book by Maturin Murray Ballou, p. 311, 1882.

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• The prophetic spirit is transferable and can be imparted.

  John Eckhardt

  Spirit

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• The condition of truth is to allow suffering to speak, it means then that if you have a prophetic sensibility, you are committed to loving others and if you love others, you hate injustice.

  Cornel West

  Hate, Mean, Suffering

  Source: genius.com

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• A church can wither as surely under the ministry of soulless Bible exposition as it can where no Bible is given. To be effective the preacher's message must be alive; it must alarm, arouse, challenge; it must be God's present voice to a particular people. Then, and not till then, is it the prophetic word and the man himself a prophet.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Men, Voice, People

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• The task of prophetic ministry is to nurture, nourish, and evoke a consciousness and perception alternative to the consciousness and perception of the dominant culture around us.

  Walter Brueggemann

  Perception, Tasks, Ministry

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• We desperately need seers who can see through the mist- Christian leaders with prophetic vision.  Unless they come soon it will be too late for this generation.  And if they do come we will no doubt crucify a few of them in the name of our worldly orthodoxy.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Names, Leader

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• Love is the crowning grace of humanity.

  Petrarch

  Love Is, Grace, Humanity

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• If we teach by the Spirit and you listen by the Spirit, some one of us will touch on your circumstance, sending a personal prophetic epistle just to you.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Spirit, Circumstances, Teach

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• Christians got a lot of work to do. But, the spirit of Dorothy Day is alive. Martin Luther King is still alive. Malcolm X and the prophetic Islamic tradition is still alive. We can't lose sight of those prophetic religious folk who, even given their kin in the same tradition, says, you all are wrong on this, but we're still in the same tradition.

  Cornel West

  Christian, Religious, Kings

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• Why?' is the prophetic question.

  Jim Wallis

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• I want to be prophetic and take stands and stand with those on the margins, and I want to laugh as much as I can.

  Greg Boyle

  Laughing, Want, Margins

  "Priest Fights Gangs With 'Boundless Compassion'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. May 20, 2010.

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• Some people believe the alternative to bad religion is secularism, but that's wrong . . . . The answer to bad religion is better religion--prophetic rather than partisan, broad and deep instead of narrow, and based on values as opposed to ideology.

  Jim Wallis

  Believe, People, Alternatives

  Jim Wallis (2009). “The Great Awakening: Seven Ways to Change the World”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• The church must be reminded that it is not the master, or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Christian, Church, States

  1963 Strength to Love.

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• Has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science? . . . No other human institution comes close.

  Carl Sagan

  Life, Reliability, Institutions

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.55, Ballantine Books

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• I try to see their moral relevance [in the Bible] and, of course, to admire the literary beauty of the text. Prophetic poetry: No one has written the way Isaiah does.

  Elie Wiesel

  Trying, Doe, Way

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• The church must be reminded that it is not the master or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state. It must be the guide and the critic of the state, and never its tool. If the church does not recapture its prophetic zeal, it will become an irrelevant social club without moral or spiritual authority.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Spiritual, Church, Doe

  1963 Strength to Love.

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• There is a prophetic release that occurs in a church or an individual who fasts continually for forty days.

  Jentezen Franklin

  Church, Fasting, Individual

  Jentezen Franklin (2014). “Fasting: Opening the Door to a Deeper, More Intimate, More Powerful Relationship with God”, p.61, Charisma Media

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  Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.

  Lord Byron

  Love, Smile, Romantic

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.809, Delphi Classics

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• For if the mystery concealed of old is made manifest to the Apostles through the prophetic writings, and if the prophets, being wise men, understood what proceeded from their own mouths, then the prophets knew what was made manifest to the Apostles.

  Origen

  Wise, Writing, Men

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• The Resistance is a moral certainty, not a poetic one. The true poet never uses words in order to punish someone. His judgment belongs to a creative order; it is not formulated as a prophetic scripture.

  Salvatore Quasimodo

  Order, Creative, Use

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• Every minister worthy of the name has to walk the line between prophetic vision and spiritual sustenance, between telling people the comforting things they want to hear and challenging them with the difficult things they need to hear. In Oxford, Daddy began to feel as though all the members wanted him to do was to marry them and bury them and stay away from their souls.

  Timothy B. Tyson

  Spiritual, Names, Oxford

  Timothy B. Tyson (2007). “Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story”, p.16, Broadway Books

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