“But the cruelest habit the modern prophecy-savans have, is that one of coolly and arbitrarily fitting the prophetic shirt on to the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I have long trusted dreams as prophetic visions. I do not mean that they foretell the future, only that they illuminate the… — Sheldon B. Kopp Copy Share Image
Alan Turing gave us a mathematical model of digital computing that has completely withstood the test of time. He gave us a… — George Dyson Copy Share Image
The perpetual danger which besets religion is that it may substitute gentility and aestheticism for prophetic insight and power. — Georgia Harkness Copy Share Image
“IF THE PONTIFF BELIEVES HIMSELF TO BE G-D, SO BE IT, BUT JUST AS I HAVE GIVEN I SHALL TAKETH AWAY. FOR… — Alejandro C. Estrada Copy Share Image
We've got the wrong vision, the wrong values, the wrong priority, and as the great prophetic figure Marian Edelman Wright puts it,… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“God’s people need to study the prophetic Scriptures so they can both be prepared themselves and help others prepare for His coming.” — Tim LaHaye Copy Share Image
“I am prophetic. I predicted it would snow tomorrow yesterday, and sure enough today it snowed. True, I’ve been saying it will… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Religion appears in so many contexts in WW1. Religion shaped the national identities and ambitions of several of the key players, especially… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
And thus, in full, there are four classes: the men who feel nothing, and therefore see truly; the men who feel strongly,… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
In politics, Joseph Smith was something of a radical. He preached, instead of democracy, a version of theocratic rule within a framework… — Noah Feldman Copy Share Image
I did point out that I have no prophetic gifts. I write books because I tried to do something more useful and… — Ayi Kwei Armah Copy Share Image
What happens in a strike happens not to one person alone… It is a crisis with meaning and potency for all and… — Meridel Le Sueur Copy Share Image
Many a woman shudders ... atthe terrible eclipse of those intellectual powers which in early life seemed prophetic of usefulness and happiness,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have always been intensely uncomfortable with the idea of a science fiction writer as prophet. Not that there haven't been science… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“Your eternal destiny is not cosmic retirement; it is to be part of a tremendously creative project, under unimaginably splendid leadership, on… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
“I'm thinking of aurochs and angels, the secret of durable pigments, prophetic sonnets, the refuge of art, And this is the only… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
For if the mystery concealed of old is made manifest to the Apostles through the prophetic writings, and if the prophets, being… — Origen Copy Share Image
Ragamuffins are simple, direct and honest. Their speech is unaffected. They are slow to claim, "God told me..." As they make their… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Thought and science follow their own law of development; they are slowly elaborated in the growth and forward pressure of humanity, in… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
“In every age, when real prophetic change begins to emerge, it happens through the brave and few who will challenge the status… — Jon Shirley Copy Share Image
“In the first place, John’s work is a prophetic apocalypse in that it communicates a disclosure of a transcendent perspective on this… — Richard Bauckham Copy Share Image
From hence, no question, has sprung an observation ... confirmed now into a settled opinion, that some long experienced souls in the… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
The wise man is but a clever infant, spelling letters from a hieroglyphical prophetic book, the lexicon of which lies in eternity. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and… — Petrarch Copy Share Image
“Love is the alpha and omega and He swoops us up into every letter of His being and invites us to participate… — Catherine Toon Copy Share Image
The condition of truth is to allow suffering to speak, it means then that if you have a prophetic sensibility, you are… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
My father was a deeply spiritual, prophetic man, [who] I adored. I watched him pray as a boy and wanted to know… — Jonathan Cain Copy Share Image
“The prophetic movement is called to be as well as to say. They are to be a light set on a hill,… — Jack Provonsha Copy Share Image
“Because we both know the tide’s turning. The decent people in this country are sick to death of being held hostage by… — Mick Herron Copy Share Image
Has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science? . . . No other human institution comes close. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The Jew - is the symbol of eternity. ... He is the one who for so long had guarded the prophetic message… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“The prophetic word is not intended as a minute history written in advance, but as a symbolic portrayal of what Christ has… — Desmond Ford Copy Share Image
I thought some of Mrs. White's material was prophetic. I felt some of her insights were extremely helpful and I regarded her… — Walter Martin Copy Share Image
The Resistance is a moral certainty, not a poetic one. The true poet never uses words in order to punish someone. His… — Salvatore Quasimodo Copy Share Image
Some people believe the alternative to bad religion is secularism, but that's wrong . . . . The answer to bad religion… — Jim Wallis Copy Share Image
The Gospel calls individual Christians to live lives of honesty, integrity and concern for the common good.. to create circles of integrity..,… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“Every single thing [...] he found thus cumbered with other matter like the lump of grass which, after a year at the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“The greatest thing that can happen to you in life, the greatest source of empowerment you can have, is when you discover… — Michelle McClain-Walters Copy Share Image
In the history of the prophetic biblical canon that starts with Genesis, the Koran is by far the most tolerant of the… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image