“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
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
“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
“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
“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
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 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
Christians got a lot of work to do. But, the spirit of Dorothy Day is alive. Martin Luther King is still alive.… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Institutional Christianity has had clear secular benefits to American life for hundreds of years. It's played both a prophetic role in terms… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
In my commencement address I gave the language and sources of the prophetic utterance made by the Prophet Joseph that the Constitution… — Ernest L. Wilkinson Copy Share Image
Fiction shows us the past as well as the present moment in mortal light; it is an art served by the indelibility… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
A lot of [George Saunders] early stories now feel prophetic. Take the recent election [of Donald Trump]. Historians in 100 years might… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
One thing, however, is sure: unless Christians fulfill their prophetic role, unless they become the advocates and defenders of the truly poor,… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
A church can wither as surely under the ministry of soulless Bible exposition as it can where no Bible is given. To… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
The Bishops of the Philippines have asked that this year be set aside as the ‘Year of the Poor.’ I hope that… — Pope Francis 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
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
“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
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
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
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
The field of ageing research is full of characters. We have hucksters claiming that cures for ageing can be bought and sold;… — S. Jay Olshansky Copy Share Image
We need not worry about the future, we need not be prophetic about the future, we need not say a single thing… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight,… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“All but a prophetic few must go about God's work in very quiet, very unspectacular ways. And as you labor to know… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
When you say that [Martin Luther] King was a prophet, you don't say that he predicted anything; you say that he bore… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Our friends should be our incentives to right, but not only our guiding, but our prophetic, stars. To love by right is… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
Jeremiah Wright is one of the greatest prophetic preachers that black America has produced. What I find striking is that many white… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Literature is the voice of the age and the state; the character, energy, and resources of the country are reflected and imaged… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image
As a graduate student at Columbia University, I remember the a priori derision of my distinguished stratigraphy professor toward a visiting Australian… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Back in 1792, Dr. Benjamin Banneker, the famed African-American inventor and scientist in Washington, proposed a Department of Peace for the new… — John Conyers Copy Share Image
If someone considers the prophetic writings with all the diligence and reverence they are worth, while he reads and examines with great… — Origen Copy Share Image
“Prophetic pragmatism attempts to keep alive the sense of alternative ways of life and of struggle based on the best of the… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Here! 'Not thread nor glue, not nails nor screws, will ever self and shadow wed.' Helpful, those poet-types. Perhaps this one: 'Seek… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
What is it that sometimes speaks in the soul so calmly, so clearly, that its earthly time is short? Is it the… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit… — John Milton Copy Share Image
“Prophetic speech is predictive, but it is predictive in relation to the near future, to the circumstances that impinge on the lives… — R.W.L. Moberly Copy Share Image
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