Prophesy Quotes
41 quotes by 37 authors
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I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.
— Winston Churchill
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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Both angels and demons are ignorant of the future, yet they make predictions. The angels do so when God reveals the future to them and…
— John of Damascus
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...Nature-the word that stands for the baffling mysteries of the Universe. Steadily, unflinchingly, we strive to pierce the inmost heart of Nature, from what she…
— William Crookes
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When the world smiles upon us, and we have got a warm nest, how do we prophesy of rest and peace in those acquisitions, thinking…
— John Flavel
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You have delivered up our holy German Fatherland to one of the greatest demagogues of all time. I solemnly prophesy that this accursed man will…
— Erich Ludendorff
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But I feel convinced, and I venture even to prophesy in this regard, that the time will come when there will also be a minister…
— Fredrik Bajer
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The whole Bible is the story of men and women trying to get back to God, to overcome that sin with sacrifices, good works, sermons,…
— Keith Miller
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I’m not a prophet. I’m a destiny-changer. It’s all right to prophesy, but the best thing to do is change things, if you’ve got the…
— Sun Ra
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No man ever did, nor ever shall, truly go forth to convert the nations, nor to prophesy in the present state of witnesses against Antichrist,…
— Roger Williams
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Under the sublime law of progress, the present outgrows the past. The great heart of humanity is heaving with the hopes of a brighter day.…
— Horace Mann
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Canst thou prophesy, thou little tree, What the glory of thy boughs shall be?
— Lucy Larcom
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Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias. Say that your main crop is the forest that you did not plant, that you will not live to…
— Wendell Berry
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...notice how he will come to manhood with his own particular soul bespeaking itself through the windows which are his eyes, and such lovely eyes…
— Jack Kerouac
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Unlike some, I don't claim to hold the mystic key to the future. But judging from past events, it seems to me that those who…
— Walter Russell Mead
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Don't ever prophesy; for if you prophesy wrong, nobody will forget it; and if you prophesy right, nobody will remember it.
— Josh Billings
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The artist must prophesy not in the sense that he foretells things to come, but in the sense that he tells his audience, at the…
— Robin G. Collingwood
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A woman's long hair symbolizes that she submits to God's plan and to the family leadership of her husband. It is her glory. It is…
— David K. Bernard
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On the basis of the familiar experience that that which is learned with difficulty is better retained, it would have been safe to prophesy such…
— Hermann Ebbinghaus
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I saw in 'the wandering Jew' the personification of the Jewish people, exiled in the Middle Ages. Nevertheless, they are once again extremely rich, owing…
— George Sand
Who Wrote These Prophesy Quotes
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