Prophet Quotes

Michael Koryta is an amazingly talented writer, and I rank The Prophet as one of the sharpest and superbly plotted crime novels I've read in my life.

Families, like countries, take their prophets unkindly, but a verse-speaker in the house is dishonor to be hooted.

The age is a vociferous one, and no prophet is without honor who is able to strike an attitude and to speak loud enough to make himself heard.

In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world.

The well-adjusted make poor prophets.

We shall certainly not advance matters by jumping up and down shrilling, 'Darwin is god and I, so-and-so, am his prophet.

The prophets of doom, in my experience, are generally ignored and usually right.

There are those that even God exploits, and they are prophets and saints in the vacuousness of the world.

In your dreams you can see yourself as a prophet saving the world.

Historians are prophets with their face turned backward.

A man must be himself convinced if he is to convince others. The prophet must be his own disciple, or he will make none. Enthusiasm is contagious: belief creates belief.

If Moses is our lawgiver [Old Testament prophet given laws by God] at this time let us obey him, not in part only, but wholly, and put every Sabbath breaker, blasphemer, and adulterer to death.

The prophet and the quack are alike admired for a generation, and admired for the wrong reasons.

I want to say something to you men. You cannot destroy the appointment of a prophet of God, but you can cut the thread that binds you to the prophet of God, and sink yourselves to hell.

When the words of prophets seem repetitive, that should rivet our attention.

Christ certainly did come to destroy the law and the prophets.

And men my prophet wail deride!

There is no Master but the Master,” he said, “and QT-1 is his prophet.

The Prophet is bound to report the truth occasionally," said Dumbledore, "if only accidentally.

No no no! Don't clap! No no no, you make me seem like I'm like a prophet or something and I'm so not!

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

The relationship between the prophet and the President, the priest and the President, is a sacred one.

Back in Bible days, there were these famous schools of the prophets, but some of the ones Jesus chose didn't come through that route - and not to say that they weren't good, but I'm comfortable.

Attitude ... is the prophet of your future.

Jesus prescribes a doctrinal test for false prophets because a behavioral test is unreliable.

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.

The historian is a prophet looking backward.

Love is all I can possess and no one can deprive me of it. Kahlil Gibran (Visions of the Prophet)

Joseph Smith was a prophet of God and the restorer of all things important to building the kingdom of God and preparing for the Second Coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Teacher: What do you want to be when you grow up? Marji: I'll be a prophet.

The prophet is appointed to oppose the kind, and even more: history.

There is no rustic so rude but that, if he dreams or fancies anything, it must be the whisper of the Holy Ghost, and he himself a prophet.

Every builder builds somewhat for unknown purposes, and is in a measure a prophet.

Take Jesus for your king, and by baptism swear allegiance to him; take him for your prophet, and hear him; take him for your priest, to make atonement for you.

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

These are clearly the end times, and now we understand why the prophets warned us about the Trump of Doom.

In this way, Allah will love the pious person because He, the Most Exalted, loves those who are pious, truthful, charitable, devout, and are sincere to Him and to His Prophet.

Agnes was the worst prophet that's ever existed. Because she was always right. That's why the book never sold.

The Prophet Joseph Smith warned us to ‘beware of self-righteousness’ and to enlarge our hearts toward all men and women until we feel ‘to take them upon our shoulders.

Only the prophets see the obvious.

There is only one Whedon, and I am his prophet.

Mohammedans say there is only one God and only one prophet of God, that is Muhammad. Then God seems to be very poor - just ONE prophet?

Our prayers are prophets.

The separation of church and state is necessary partly because if religion is good then the state shouldn't interfere with the religious vision or with the religious prophet.

Cobden was the greatest statesman and prophet of the century. His speeches are an inspiration. A man whose disciple I am willing to confess I am.

We stone our prophets, then build monuments to them after they're gone.

Wall Street is where prophets tell us what will happen and profits tell us what did happen.

For every prophet there are a thousand interpreters to distort the essence of the religion, to replace the bright flame with the heat of the inquisitors' pyres.

The Prophet, peace be on him, presents all the possibilities of the human state in perfection. Now, a part of that of course is love of God.

The Prophet was taken by the order of God to heaven, which is a prototype of all spiritual realization in Islam. But, he had a guide; Gabriel, the angel, was his guide. He took him to heaven.