Prophecy Quotes

253 Prophecy quotes by 207 unique authors

PROPHECY, n. The art and practice of selling one's credibility for future delivery. — Ambrose Bierce
Shivaji was the greatest Hindu king that India had produced within the last thousand years; one who was the very incarnation of lord Siva, about… — Swami Vivekananda
As a child of God, you must realize that you are on the winning side of prophecy; until you win it is not over! — Chris Oyakhilome
Many a prophecy, by the mere force of its being believed, is transmuted to fact. — Isaac Asimov
A man's liberal and conservative phases seem to follow each other in a succession of waves from the time he is born. Children are radicals.… — Elwyn Brooks White
Thus the good christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make false prophecies, however much they may in fact speak the truth; lest,… — Saint Augustine
They (the consecrated) are men and woman who can awaken the world. Consecrated life is prophecy. God asks us to fly the nest and to… — Pope Francis
The law of self-fulfilling prophecy says that you get what you expect. So why not create great expectations and the highest vision possible of yourself… — Mark Victor Hansen
With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Each morning we sat reading our copy of the New York Times, the Washington Post or the Los Angeles Times and ruminated on their prophecies… — Dick Morris
Don't ever prophesy; for if you prophesy wrong, nobody will forget it; and if you prophesy right, nobody will remember it. — Josh Billings
Persistent prophecy is a familiar way of assuring the event. — George Gissing
[The poets' role is that of] capturing on their instruments the secret stir of life in the air and giving it voice in the music… — Rabindranath Tagore
Over our manhood bend the skies; Against our fallen and traitor lives The great winds utter prophecies; With our faint hearts the mountain strives, Its… — James Russell Lowell
There is no question but that if Jesus Christ, or a great prophet from another religion, were to come back today, he would find it… — Peter Ustinov
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does he… — Margaret Mead
Youth, however, can afford to enjoy even its melancholy; for the ultimate fact of which that melancholy is a prophecy is a long way off. — Richard Le Gallienne
Some of us must wait for the best human gifts until we come to heavenly places. Our natural desire for musical utterance is perhaps a… — Lucy Larcom
Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any… — Harold Bloom
Architecture is either the prophecy of an unformed society or the tomb of a finished one. — Lewis Mumford

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